April first

Our assignment for the week was to create a nine cell board to communicate a student's wants and needs in the cafeteria. I am beginning to feel very comfortable with Board Maker, and like how it feels fast now to whip off boards. Idid forget to use manners in my board, and also forgot to do this with our project with Christine. I tried to have the buttons read exactly what was written on the button, and there isn't much room. I realize now that it is ok to have more spoken, including manners then what is actually on the button. The button is a visual cue for the person to press the button to be read.

March 25

In this class we acted out a discussion about the economy bailout with one person being non-verbal and how to involve them in a discussion. I found this a major challenge. Although Paula was the 'translator' I had a very hard time not focussing the whole conversation on her. Every time I looked at her, I thought "don't look at her, look at the non-verbal person for communicaton" this was a very hard task.
20 ways to communicate
Verbal
Text
Pictures
Gestures
Facial expression
Sign language
Pecs
Hand written
Computer text
Cell text
Music
Art
Eye contact
Props
Interpataion
Braille
AAC

We watched the video In My Language. I was touched by how poetic she was with describing her feelings, and reasons for her behaviour. I felt this allowed me to see the genius within

Last week's class

I am a bad blogger:( Can I do this on facebook?I take notes every class, and plan on posting them as catch up proof LOL
I enjoyed making the boardmaker project with Christine for a 10 year old student. I did find it very overwhelming to decide where to stop, and how much information to include while maintaining an activity for a ten year old. We seemed to have a lot of choices, however, we felt it was necessary and probably could have kept on going. It was interesting the last few minutes of class to google devices to help hearing impaired students.