assistive technology and managing behaviour: do they go together?
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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
Thanks
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