assistive technology and managing behaviour: do they go together?

Assistive Technology and Managing Behaviour:

Do They Go Together?

Mentoring

Behaviour

Curriculum

Literacy

One size fits all?

All students

Students at risk

Intensive interactions

Response to Intervention

Positive Behaviour Support

All Behaviour is Communication

Speech Generating Devices

Anh Do - The Happiest Refugee

“As a kid, if you’re told you can’t read and write, you think you’re bad at life”

“He had a difficulty with words as a child and was in a special needs class in primary school”

smh.com.au Spectrum March 19-20

30%

http://tinyurl.com/25qkf8s

46-47%

The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was undertaken in Australia in 1996

Barriers to Learning & Opportunity

..impaired access, participation and progress in learning, social connectiveness, and employment

Remediation vs Compensation

Edyburn (2006) http://www.uwm.edu/~edyburn/L%26L2006.pdf

Executive Functions

Problem SolvingFlexibilityInitiationSelf Correction

CognitionLearning, thinking & problem solving

BehaviourAppropriate & pro social behaviours

AffectIdentify and address feelings & emotions

Data

Cognition

Support learning, thinking and problem solving

• Alternative Formats / text-to-speech• Schedules

Clicker 5

Texthelp Read&Write 10 GOLD

Boardmaker

Apps

• First Then• iPrompts

Behaviour

Appropriate and Pro-Social Behaviour

• Social stories

Communicate: SymWriter

Social School Stories

Apps

• Pictello• Sock Puppets

Affect

Identify and address emotions

• Visual supports• Video Modeling

www.hiyah.net

Personal Development

Personal Development

Apps

• Touch Emotions• Functional Skills System

Data Collection

• Motivation Assessment Scale• Tap2Count

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