This program is designed to be a fun way to develop your children's early literacy skills as you read story books with them. In the books For Children, you will find coaches, Pedro, Hali, and Monty who give ideas of how to talk with children about the books. In the books For Teachers and Parents, there is also another coach named Terry, who talks about literacy development and suggests fun activities to do with children.
Geocaching is a high tech treasure hunt that utilizes a GPS receiver to determine a cache's location. Coaches are hidden all over the world by geocachers who post latitude and longitude coordinates online and challenge other to find them. A GPS receiver can pinpoint one's location anywhere on the Earth to within several meters.
In this blog post by a famous AAC clinician named Gail Van Tatenhove she tells the story of Velma, an employee at an adult facility who witnessed Gail talking with an AAC user by modeling on the device.
Velma was inspired to become "America's Next Top Modeler" with Gail acting as her coach. In the article, Gail outlines some initial scripts she gave to Velma to use when chatting with the AAC user. These scripts were necessary because Velma couldn't be expected to know where every word was she might ever need to say. The scripts took the pressure off! Velma only needed to find these few words.
Guess what happened? In time, Velma learned where all of these words were so she didn't need to use the scripts at all.
Mnemonics, visualization, and acronyms as low tech solutions to processes. There's stuff you have to pay, for but usually you can figure out how to make it yourself, too
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