Meet Ava - An All-Around Communicator with Snap Core First
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Ava is a vibrant young girl with Rett Syndrome. When she communicates, her eyes lead the way. Using Tobii Dynavox Snap Core First software on her eye gaze device, Ava is growing her vocabulary and stringing new words together each day. It’s exciting to see Ava’s progress, says her mom, who believes Snap Core First is a key stepping stone to literacy and all-around communication skills her daughter will have for life.
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Hello, I work with a client with Retts and she uses the same eye tracking AAC device. Any recommendations or tips on modeling and how did you transition into this larger grid size? She uses the 7 x 9 as well but is struggling with selecting the word or phrase she intended on using. Any help is more than appreciated - please don’t reply unless you have specific experience with Retts and eye tracking aac.
Hi There Jenna We would like to invite you to ask this question in our collaborative Facebook group here. There may be a few experts in this specific area that can help. facebook.com/groups/127748650590859/?ref=pages_group_cta
Is it possible for an augmentative communication device not to impede the development of literacy skills if users can memorize the look of icons for their favorite words and follow along with people who are reading out loud? They could look at words and words could have no meaning for them, just as they wouldn't be able to read aloud in class without using their device. In some contexts, these devices don't augment users' voices as much as render them superfluous.
None of this is the case. Contrary to what you said about words having no meaning, being exposed to the written word every time the child wants to express that word means that they’re actually being exposed to literacy more than your average child who’s learning to talk as an infant, since we’re not literally showing a baby flash cards whenever they talk. So this constant exposure to written words is super helpful for literacy development. As for not being “able” to read aloud in class without their device, are we able to read without our voices? An AAC device *is* a voice for most of the people who use it, and there’s no reason to treat it like it’s a hassle or burden instead of what it is - an indispensable tool. As for your last point, that’s entirely incorrect. These devices allow a person’s personality, viewpoint, and self to actually be expressed to others. if someone is going to use verbal speech, they’ll use it, and AAC does NOT hinder that development (in fact, it often helps it), but even if they never use verbal speech, using a device allows them to be heard and understood. You seem determined to poke holes in this area, but I can assure you as someone who does this stuff for a living that I firmly believe AAC is empowering, powerful, and just incredible to watch as it helps kids express themselves.
@@malloryskinner1929 I do not mean that words are themselves are entirely without meaning; I'm saying that for people who aren't literate and don't have and established capacity to grasp and process abstract concepts, written characters are simply another way of visually representing words they know by sound. They can make a correlative match between visual representations of words and the sounds of those words without necessarily deriving any deeper meaning from them. In fact, the teaching and learning of pre-reading skills depends on it, and it doesn't seem like too great of a venture to say that it's the reason augmentative communication as a process works at all, but what if people never move beyond this correlation of words with pictorial symbolism? Exchanging a picture communication system with one based on words won't ultimately do them or anybody else any good.
Apart from that, some people with disabilities, and especially those disposed to needing augmentive communication, aren't able to differentiate between characteristics and behaviors of humans hyphen or any other living things - and the sensory experiences dispensed by non-living objects like computers, televisions, and toys capable of sound and movement. Electronic devices reinforce the psychosocial wall hardwired into negatively impacting on their behavior.
best 60€ i invested (before there was the new system with monthly paying) in td snap! i payed for it myself private and used it at work for modeling. i tell you, best investment! ❤🎉
Has Ava really been the primary controller of the device?
Yes, that’s how eye gaze works, she is the one who controls it. I’m dismayed by your attitude of skepticism. Kids are capable of a lot more than we give them credit for, and kids with disabilities are constantly underestimated. I can’t tell you how often I’ve seen children that seem “profoundly intellectually disabled” and then, when provided with the right kind of communication support, blow everyone’s minds with how much they had inside that they couldn’t express. It’s much more useful to look at kids with the viewpoint that they know more than they can express and that they can learn more than we expect they may be able to.
@@malloryskinner1929 I know how eye gaze works, but I'm entirely aware of external factors, including unmentioned, which have the capacity to play a role in the so-called users of these devices being manipulated for the sake of their use so powerfully and subtly that they themselves are not entirely aware of it.
What about the kids who are said to be really bright despite not being able to speak with their own mouths and are coasted through this process, certainly while records are being kept? That gives a dissonant impression. An ST true to the profession would be mindful of that, too.
These kids are used to send messages abstract than their mentality around communication is. Those of us who are aware of if have a responsibility to be mindful of it and them and prevent this for the sake of them and our relationship with them.
@@TyrekeCorrea There are definitely people who take advantage of vulnerable individuals through their communication devices. That’s definitely a reality. However, it’s an issue when abuse is *always* suspected instead of acknowledging that maybe there really are people who can communicate more than we expect them to be able to do. From my own experience and those of my colleagues, it’s far more often that we under- than over-estimate those with disabilities. I encourage you to read up on stories from disabled people who were overlooked like this, people like Jordyn Zimmerman who wasn’t given a robust communication system till she was nearly an adult; she spent her entire life being underestimated even though she had plenty to say. There are SO many stories like this. And actually, disabled adults like her are some of the people who speak out against abuse the most, and activists like her say that one of the best ways to protect against abuse is to equip people with communication early and give them access to a large vocabulary, so they can speak out themselves if something happens to them.
@@malloryskinner1929 Overestimating clients is not an issue. The relevant issue is people setting them up to be asked to do more than they can by connecting them to materials more complex and powerful than they're capable of managing and making it look to others - particularly outsiders - like they're up to it.
Aren't people sometimes concerned that these augmentative communication devices compel their users to interact more with them than they do other people?
The devices use facial recognition algorithms, and that's coupled with an eye-gaze code. Nobody but the main user can use the device.
This is not a thing. I’m a speech-language pathologist and AAC specialist, and these people are ones that did not have an effective means of communication before, so having one means they are interacting *more* with other people. Other people are a lot more interesting to interact with than an app full of words. Sometimes they can be really interesting to kids at first, but the novelty wears off once they realize it’s a communication tool that allows them to connect with the world around them.
@@malloryskinner1929 People in the same position you supposedly are don't use syntax like that.
@@TyrekeCorrea I can use whatever syntax I like, especially when I’m on the internet on my own personal time and not on the clock. Also I’m laughing at your use of “supposedly.” I’m registered in two different provinces, do you want to challenge my position on the basis of my syntax in a RUclips comment? LOL