The A to Z of Adapting
Books
Molly Shannon, OTR/L, ATP
North Carolina AT Program
[email protected]
www.ncatp.org
http://www.resna.org/taproject/index.html
Agenda
• Overview, handouts posted to our website
www.ncatp.org under Links to Resources,
then Staff Presentations
• A to Z of resources and products
• Quick and Easy Ways to Adapt Books and
more products and ideas…
• Door Prizes! Present to win, take a ticket?
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
~ Chinese proverb ~
Why Adapt Books?
• Motor Limitations: can’t hold book or turn
pages, tear the book, get it wet
• Language or Cognitive Issues: too many
words or too high a language load, need
repetition, LD
• Sensory Impairments: low vision or blind or
deaf
• Adapted books allow emergent or nonreaders the opportunity to be successful at
reading at any age!
• Even adults who acquire disabilities such as spinal
cord injuries have cried when given access to print
via text to speech, books read outloud, or voice
recognition. It is very powerful!
• No child should
ever have to be
told he can’t read a
book because he
tears it up, or
keeps dropping it,
or drools on it!
Why….
• Wasson & Keeler (1984) studied twins: one with
cerebral palsy and one without disability. While
each received 6 hours of instruction per day, 50%
of the disabled student’s time was taken up by
non-instructional activities such as
transportation, feeding, toileting, and therapies.
Most studies showed between 30-50%!
• Overall, need to increase the quantity and quality
of reading as there is extensive research to
support the premise that the best way to become
a better reader is to read more. (Allington, 2001).
Why?
• As far back as 1946, researcher Emmett
Betts suggested that we should be giving
students texts in which they could read at
least 90 percent of the words and
comprehend at least 75 percent of the
information enhanced both learning and
attitude (Betts, 1946, in Allington, 2001).
• Subsequent research supports the premise
that success with learning generates more
learning (Allington, 2001). Yet all too often,
struggling readers are subjected to texts
that are much too difficult for them, that
inhibit learning and decrease motivation.
Why? Road to Freedom…
• I drew it, the letter A. There it was on the
floor before me. I looked up. I saw my
mother’s face for a moment, tears on her
cheeks. I had done it! It had started, the
thing that was to give my mind it’s chance of
expressing itself. That one letter, scrawled
on the floor with a broken bit of yellow
chalk gripped between my toes, was my road
to a new world, my key to mental freedom.
Christy Brown, 1954
My Left Foot, movie and book
http://www.creativecommunicating.com/tt1.html
http://www.talklc.com/handout/Visually_Cued_In
struction.html Nola Marriner, PhD
Early Learning Overview
"Predictable books make use of rhyme, repetition of words,
phrases, sentences and refrains, and such patterns as
cumulative structure, repeated scenes, familiar cultural
sequences, interlocking structure and turn-around plots.
These stories invite children to make predictions or
guesses about words, phrases, sentences, events and
characters that could come next in the story." Mary Jett
Simpson, in Reading Resource Book (372.41 Je Parents
Shelf) http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/predict.html
• “Get Ready to Read” a free online screening tool for 4 year
olds developed by the National Center for Learning
Disabilities at
http://www.readingrockets.org/families/recognizesigns/ge
tready
• Some teacher websites have free portions along with
members services, such as http://www.abcteach.com/
which has extensive resources for $35, but many are free.
– Literacy Development for AAC Users
http://aac.unl.edu/csl/litdev.html and
http://www.asha.org/about/publications/leaderonline/archives/2003/
q2/ftr030527b.htm article in ASHA by Judith Light
More Early Learning
• “Tips for Parents of Preschoolers”,
English or many other languages,
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/7
833
• Free online books
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learnto-read/load.htm?f
• Free online books, games, and more
http://www.billybear4kids.com/story/boo
ks.htm
• First Books for Emergent Readers
– More books with repeated lines
http://www.carolhurst.com/profsubjects/reading/e
mergentreaders.html
http://www.wcoserrc.org/webpages/pdf/booklist.pd
f
330 Sight Words and Do’s and Don’ts: Handout of the Sight Words only
http://www.aacintervention.com/tips/nov%2006/High%20Frequency%20Tip.pdf
Chart is from Don Johnston’s Start to Finish research and series www.donjohnston.com
Elementary and Middle
– Tips for Parents of Kindergartners, First Graders,
Second Graders, Third Graders” all in English or other
languages as well,
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/7834
– Baltimore Schools: 500 Adapted books PLUS a
newsletter with Talking Books (Powerpoint) , ex. “Why
Did the Students Cross the Road” and “Summer Fun”
http://www.baltimorecityschools.org/boardmaker/Newsl
etters/index.asp
– 58 Boardmaker stories/booklets, free in Archives
section, many in Activities of the Month (Jefferson
Parish Schools Speech Language Department, nice
resources) http://speech.jppss.k12.la.us/archives.htm
High School and Adult
• Find effective high interest, low vocabulary books
• Controlled vocabulary and reading difficulty levels, but
with plots and topics appropriate to older students.
• Such books avoid the problems of having a young teen,
reading a picture book about teddy bears or butterflies.
• Effective hi/lo materials must provide very similar
supports for struggling readers as those early picture
books: illustrations to support the text, carefully chosen
vocabulary, simple sentences, compelling stories, and
character that interest the reader.
– The very best hi/lo materials provide these supports invisibly,
so that students are not stigmatized by reading a "baby book."
A: ADAPT! Great overall resources
for literacy and adapting books:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Articles on reading achievement from A to Z!
http://www.readingrockets.org/atoz
Literacy and Recording - Using symbols, pictures and
sounds by Inclusive Technology, 36 page guide
www.inclusive.net/resources/units/unit1/unit1_contents.
shtml
Lori Tufte/Julie Maro resources
http://aacintervention.com/litboards.htm
15 pages of book ideas, great resource
http://boston.k12.ma.us/teach/technology/emmanuel/
ModifyingBks.pdf
A: Adapt…..
• 5. Literacy research, extensive AAC information
http://aac.unl.edu/csl/pre.html
• 6. Nice overview of guidelines to adapt books, 4
pages
http://schools.nycenet.edu/D75/literacy/adapted
books/GuidelinesBks.pdf
• 7. Overall AT resource, searchable source
http://assistivetech.net/index.php
• 8. Autism and other great sources and info
http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/as/asteachersites.
html
B: Bookworm, other
recorded book devices
• The AbleNet BookWorm provides a simple
way for students with disabilities to
"read" their favorite books
www.ablenetinc.com $239. Video at end of
presentation and is a great product!
• Enabling Devices is now making their own
version and it sells for $105 at
http://enablingdevices.com/viewimage.asp
x?id=748
• Universal Design? LittleTouch LeapPad
Learning System, $30, cartridges $13 for
each additional book, Target and others
C: Classic Book Adaptations
• Free books on audiotape/CDs are available from state
libraries National Library for the Blind/ Physically
Handicapped state listings. More “talking books” coming…
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
• Textbooks are sometimes available on CD upon request from
the publisher for older students or you can receive the book
in a spiral version vs. a bound version at times.
• Also consider use of OCR (optical character recognition) for
older students with reading difficulties as text can be
placed on a scanner and read out loud to the student or text
can be edited on the screen with such programs as Kurzweil
3000 www.kurzweil.com or WYNN
www.freedomscientific.com/WYNN/products.asp
• To read is to empower
To empower is to write
To write is to influence
To Influence is to change
To change is to live.
• ~ Jane Evershed ~
More than a Tea Party
D: Don Johnston (DJ), Edmark (E),
Intellitools (I) (electronic book, reading
instruction software sources) :
• DJ: Start to Finish, Storytime Tales, and
UNKANDU Reading Series of books,
www.donjohnston.com
• E: Edmark Reading Program- teaches beginning
reading and language development to nonreaders and
those who have been unsuccessful using other
programs, is switch accessible. In print or in a
software version from www.edmark.com
• I: Intellitools Reading: Balanced Literacy (K-2)
provides sequential instruction and adapted
access www.intellitools.com
E: Engineering the Classroom:
• Excellent way to structure the classroom for language and
literacy success based upon the books by Goosens, Elder and
Crain. For some of the following sources, you will need
Boardmaker. Websites with ideas/ free aided language
simulation boards:
• 1. Jefferson Parish Public Schools
http://speech.jppss.k12.la.us/aac.htm
• 2. Ideas for popular books and much more: a-g, h-z
http://hummingbirded.com/literacy-based-A-G.htm
• 3. www.bcps.k12.md.us/boardmaker/adapted_library.asp
Baltimore Schools with over 500 books already adapted with
PCS symbols with Boardmaker. Can use as a board or cut up and
place in books.
• 4. Engineering Boards for the Classroom:
http://speech.jppss.k12.la.us/engineering_the_classroom.htm
• Excellent resource books are available from Mayer Johnson such as
Communication Displays for Engineered Preschool Environments Books I and II ,
Engineering Training Environments for Interactive, Augmentative Communication
or Units, Quick Tech Readable Repeatable Stories and Activities
F: Fluffers
• Ways to make book pages
easier to turn: (specifics
later)
• Sources for adapting:
– 1.http://www2.edc.org
/NCIP/tour/r-litbooks-access.html
– 2.http://atto.buffalo.e
du/registered/ATBasi
cs/Populations/LowTec
h/WATIReadingBooks.
pdf
G: Give Aways-free sources for books,
PECS, or ways to adapt books
• 1.http://www.creativecommunicating.com/
freebies.html Great free listing of stuff!
• 2.www.bcps.k12.md.us/boardmaker/adapte
d_library.asp Over 500 adapted books from
Baltimore schools
• 3.http://schools.nycenet.edu/D75/literacy
/adaptedbooks/catalog.htm New York City
Schools free stories in Boardmaker, Writing with
Symbols, PDF or Powerpoint formats
• 4.www.billybear4kids.com/story/books.ht
m Personalize to print out or read at computer
• 5.http://www.ablenetinc.com/wiz.asp The
Wiz from Ablenet, over 50 free activities
and suggestions for fun, activities, books,
etc.
Giveaways, freebies, cont.
• 5. www.starfall.com/n/levela/index/play.htm?f Free books for
reading instruction
• 6.http://www.niteowl.org/kids/index.ht
ml Free nursery rhyme graphics can
import
• 7.http://www.symbolworld.org/stories/i
ndex.htm Free online stories and
rhymes with icons
• 8.http://www.dreambox.com/storybox/i
ndex.html free stories and activities
• 9. http://www.lil-fingers.com/
Storybooks for toddlers, games,
coloring, activities
• 10. http://www.magickeys.com/books/
Free stories for young and older
readers
H: Hard of Hearing or Deaf
Students Literacy Suggestions:
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Adequate lighting so that teacher's face/lips can be seen
Use body language and natural gestures
Check hearing aids, batteries
Keep interpreter beside teacher
Sign key words
Introduce book in 1:1 before group activity
Vary pitch and intonation of voice
Use Sign Language Boardmaker symbols to add text to
books. www.mayerjohnson.com
• Great links from Callier Center
http://www.callier.utdallas.edu/links.html
Hearing, cont.
• Effects of Hearing Loss on Development : from
ASHA 2005
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/51
35
• Summary of article: There are four major ways in
which hearing loss affects children:
– It causes delay in the development of receptive and
expressive communication skills (speech and language).
– The language deficit causes learning problems that
result in reduced academic achievement.
– Communication difficulties often lead to social isolation
and poor self-concept.
– It may have an impact on vocational choices.
I: Intellipics or other Authoring
Tools, Special Needs Software
• Develop your own stories:
• 1. Clicker 5, $199,
http://www.cricksoft.com/us/
and many learning grids free at
www.learninggrids.com/
• 2. Intellitools: go to Activity
Exchange for 248 activities for
use with their various software
www.intellitools.com/
• 3. Don Johnston’s BuildAbility
info, sample stories on website
www.donjohnston.com/catalog/ca
talog.htm
•4.
My Own Bookshelf $139, www.softtouch.com
Door Prize Product!!!!!!
J: Just Grandma and Me and other
Software Books/Series
• Old time, but popular software
(www.amazon.com) and other software
companies) and other software from
Broderbund's line of Living Books.
– Instant Access to Living Books are setups for children with disabilities who
need switch access, $90 from
www.intellitools.com.
– Of course, a well-positioned mouse
placed on the turn page cursor in these
stories will work like a switch to turn
the pages.
• Balanced Literacy series, $299,
www.intellitools.com
• Start to Finish series by
www.donjohnston.com Door Prize Product
from DJ!
• Levels: intermediate, middle and high
with 2nd to 5th grade reading levels, high
interest subjects, include paperback,
audio and CD book
K: Kits
• Compile your own ”book bags” or book
boxes with actual or representative
objects from the stories. Check out
dollar stores, garage sales, the
Goodwill, your children's old toys, etc.
to put these together.
• IN NC we have a great program that
could be duplicated and augments our
Tech Act loans.http://www.tadpole.org
Their kits and contents may help
others to develop their own kits.
• Various Tech ACT Programs have loan
programs that may include literacy kits
already made.
http://www.resna.org/taproject/inde
x.html
• Great for class parent volunteers,
community service hours for high
schoolers, siblings, older students,
etc.
L: Language and Literacy Levels
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Adapting a book for the literacy level of the
child or adult is important.
The use of VOCAs and mini communication
boards are important for children at the
beginning stages of literacy for interaction,
modeling, and independence.
Icons can be placed on the page of text
simplifying the text, on a carpet square,
boards, devices, mitts, etc.
Icons can be made with Boardmaker
(www.mayerjohnson.com ) or Minspeak
Symbols (www.prentrom.com) or
Overboard Symbols $169 or Go Talk
Symbols $79 www.enablemart.com
Picture Master Language Software from
Unlimiter, Win only, 20K icons, Health
Science www.speechgeneratingdevices.com
Generic Communication Board for Books from Don
Johnston Start to Finish Resources www.donjohnston.com
•These mini communication or”Aided Language Simulation
Boards” can be provided as a generic storytelling board or
with more story specific.
L: Literacy Levels, cont.
• Basal vs. Grade Levels
• Enrichment, Transitional and Conventional
from Start to Finish Series and Research
from Don Johnston: Erickson, Musselwhite,
Stemach, etc.
• Emergent,///Matching Books to Readers
book….
• It is not enough to simply teach children to read;
we have to give them something worth reading.
Something that will stretch their imaginationssomething that will help them make sense of their own
lives and encourage them to reach out toward people
whose lives are quite different from their own.
~ Katherine Paterson ~
• The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.
~ Dr. Seuss ~
Literacy, cont.
•
http://www.prentrom.com/teaching/teaching.htm
l Method of color-coding the symbols using what
is known as the Fitzgerald Key when making
communication boards. This grammatical
categorical guide from left to right: miscellaneous
words, verbs, descriptors, prepositions, and nouns.
The color guide using transparent highlighters is:
verbs (pink), descriptors (blue), prepositions
(green), nouns (yellow) and miscellaneous (orange).
– There are addendums available from Mayer
Johnson that can color code these prior to
printing your own boards.
– Bottom Line: Having black and white
communication icons is better than no icons
at all!
– http://aac.unl.edu/yaack/d2c.html#d2c0
GREAT website for AAC topics in general.
• http://www.vickiblackwell.com/makingbooks
/ Great ideas for making books!
M. Modify Text
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Replace text with simplified text using
– Sentence strips, sticky notes, icon producing
software programs, VOCAs, audio versions of
text
• Selected Text Viewing:
– Block out sections of page (paper, white out or
page frame emphasizing one part of pic
• Direct focus of the reader on:
– One word in text, a character, an image, one
word to simply text and increase focus,
highlighter tape to emphasize key vocabulary,
problem words, actions/words, etc.
– Source:http://boston.k12.ma.us/teach/technology/emmanu
el/ModifyingBks.pdf
N: Novelty or Keepsake
• Children of all ages love 'reading' personal books or
those about novel subjects. Novelty Books can be
written by the staff and children to include:
– digital pictures scanned into the computer from field
trips, pictures of the class
– items needed for a shopping trip for a cooking activity
– current topics and subjects could be adapted this way as
well, such as books about favorites entertainers, holidays
or weather events.
– Some teachers ask parents to take a small photo album and
place items or pictures from weekend trips or special
events in the pages to prompt conversation for news or a
”My Family” book. These are great for the parents as they
can quickly insert receipts, small items, pictures, etc. in the
album.
– Can be low tech with album or make an electronic version
with Powerpoint, Intellipics or other authoring program.
O: Output or VOCA-vocal output
communication aids, >$10.00
• Allow the repeated lines or short
stories to be ”read” aloud by the
student.
• These messages range from one
message to many or sequenced
messages. Examples:
– BigMack, One Step Communicator,
or Step by Step Communicator or
Talking Symbols Notepads ( 3 for
$49 from www.ablenetinc.com
– Sequencers www.adaptivation.com
– Cheaptalk/others
www.enablingdevices.com
– Tech Talks, etc. from
http://www.amdi.net/
– Listen to Me (12 message, $79,
inexpensive!)
http://www.listentome.biz/
VOCAs, less than $10, some
from scrapbooking world
– Hug Me ($9 for 10 second one
message recording device!) or
Voice Over ($9.95)
www.silverliningmm.com/record
er.htm
– Compact Voice Recorder
($6.95 for 1, 25+4.95 each and
shipping is $3.95 for any
quantity)
http://www.nationalartcraft.com/
subcategory.asp?gid=3&cid=72&sci
d=266
P: Page Protectors and Lamination• cut bound books and place in top-loading page protectors
• laminate pages using a laminator, lamination sheets or contact
paper
• The cost is high for many to use the laminating pouches, but
the thickness of the .5 mil paper is much sturdier than that
available in schools on the roll machines.
• Small laminators can be found for as little as $60 on the
Internet or at Michael’s/craft stores and when bought in
bulk the pouches required are not nearly as expensive.
• When in doubt, just break out the old standard contact
paper!
• Remember before cutting books for lamination is to number
the pages in case you forget the order.
– Once protected by lamination or contact paper, re-bind the
books by stapling (heavy duty), punching holes and attaching a
metal ring or ribbon (not very easy to use for a child in this
manner to turn pages if have a motor problem though) or cut
holes and place in a 3-ring binder.
Q: Quick Commercial Sources of
Adapted Books or Supports
1.www.adaptedstories.com
Creative
Communicating for 100.00 yr, varies
2. www.mayerjohnson.com Set of 12
Interactive stories, $19 each
3. www.at-p.com/ Awakening Technologies,
10 books $10-$19, supports Prentke
products for Pathfinder,
Vantage/Vanguard
4. www.slatersoftware.com/ $65 each or
$179 for all, hybrid) PixWriter word
banks setups for discussing 100 popular
children's books at primary,
intermediate, and teen levels. Also,
Interactive Board Books, $16 set $70.
Lots of free samples on website
5. Tumblebooks $399 yr for schools, an
online collections, animated,
talking picture books which teach young
children the joys of reading in a format
they'll love. www.tumblebooks.com
R: Repetitive Line Books:
• Using repetitive phrase stories during
reading time is a quick and efficient way to
engage students with limited verbal skills
in the literature process.
• 1.www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/predict.html
• 2. http://aacintervention.com/repeatl.htm
• 3.www.wcoserrc.org/webpages/pdf/booklist.pdf
S: Sensory
Adding textures to books for
students with visual or attentional
deficits through puffy paint,
miniature objects, sewing items,
etc.
www.connsensebulletin.com/cormie
rv4n5.html and
http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/v
mi/objectbook.htm Great overall
resource for Visual Impairments
including sory boxes,
http://www.connsensebulletin.com/
cormierv4n5.html, crafty
• http://www.technoability.net/Holly
.html Sugggestions, talking books
• http://home.earthlink.net/~deedaz
e/braille.html Resources for
parents and teachers of students
who are blind
Pom poms on woman pig's shoes
Fabric paint on pigs/gingerbread man
Small fake carrots in garden
Green batting for grass
Fabric paint on icon pics/sound panel
Sandpaper on the pig's snout
Page fluffer on the edge of right page
T: Talking Powerpoint
Books
• Talking Powerpoint “how to”
– 1.http://schools.nycenet.edu/D75/literacy/adaptedbo
oks/talking_books_in_PowerpointXP.pdf
– 2.http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials/talkin
gBooks/powerpoint.php
– 3.http://www.everhart.leon.k12.fl.us/assist_tech_res
ources.htm#talking_books
• How to make a talking and scanning book
http://www.ncatp.org/Resources/NCACA%20Co
nference.html
I Love Cats!
Our Field Trip to Big Cat
Rescue
U: Units• 1. Use books to reinforce
whatever unit the class is working
on, be it animals or colors, etc.
– One of our 0-3 centers for
literacy has focused on two main
books/subjects to show entire
range possible: Brown Bear and
fishing. Very effective.
• 2. Burnaby School, 8 units
http://schou.sd41.bc.ca/district/
boardmaker.htm
• 3. http://hummingbirded.com/
tons of free unit ideas
• 4. Commercially, resource books
from www.mayerjohnson.com
include great ideas such as Units
and or www.ablenetinc.com who
provided Hands-On Reading and
Matching Books to Readers: Door
prize products!
V: Vision Impairment Literacy Suggestions:
many from Callier Center
http://www.callier.utdallas.edu/links.html
– observe which senses a child uses for literacy
– place small object on front cover to represent the book
– cue orientation of book by cutting off upper right angle
of pages
– outline graphics with dark marker or puffy paint
– add textures or ”smells” to books
– add Braille to book along with print (commercially
available for make own with a Braille labeler)
– enlarge pictures and text as needed
– consider room lighting/avoid clutter
– provide concrete objects or props in to ”book bag” to
hold while reading stories
– If using Boardmaker symbols, consider coloring the
background black and leaving the figure fluorescent
yellow.
...I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they
bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge
which comes to others through their eyes
and their ears.... books have meant so much more
in my education than in that of others ...
Author: Keller, Helen
Visual, cont.
• 1.http://home.earthlink.net/~deedaze/braill
e.html Reading resources for
parents/teachers
• 2.http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/vmi/obje
ctbook.htm Object Book info and wealth of
other ideas from the fantastic resource,
Texas School for the Blind and Visually
Impaired
• 3.http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/vmi/box.
htm Story box ideas
• 4.http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/vmi/tacti
le_symbols.htm Tactile symbols directory
• 5.www.educ.ttu.edu/slate/ParentBook/Adap
ting.htm Parent ideas for adapting books
for children who are blind
• 6. Intellikeys Braille Overlays, IntelliBraille
www.intellitools.com $120
W: Writing with Communication Symbols
• Adapt books, make AAC boards,
label room and objects easily,
offer many opportunities to see,
speak and WRITE with
icon/picture support
• Software for writing with icons:
– Writing with Symbols $199
(Windows only, French and
Spanish) or Boardmaker
($299)
www.mayerjohnson.com/main/i
ndex.htm2
– Picture It ($295)
www.slatersoftware.com/pit.h
tml
– Pix Writer ($180)
www.slatersoftware.com
X: X-tra copy
• With some book adaptations you must buy a
second copy of the book to cut it out, place tag or
cardboard behind the page to increase the
”firmness” of the page, place the page in sheet
protectors and then place in a 3 ring binder.
• You can also scan and print a copy of the book
page as well, yet this can be expensive with
printer ink costs.
• General rule of thumb on copyright: you can make
a copy of a book for a child with a disability…can’t
sell it of course!
Y: Young:
• No child is ever too developmentally young to be
read to (OR try any AT) and with some of these
modifications; even the youngest developmentally
involved student can interact and experience the
love of books. Sources to support this concept:
• 1.http://www.creativecommunicating.com/tt2.html
• 2. www.air.org/TECHIDEAS/Final%20Report.pdf
”Synthesis on the Use of AT with Infants and
Toddlers” by the Department of Education, 150
pages
Z: Zipper Pull, Ziplock Bags…
• Zipper pull or ponytail holder
for adapting children’s books
with hidden objects under
flaps. This allows the child to
get a grip on the flap and
operate it easier.
www.orientaltrading.com and
others
• Ziplock Baggy Books or gallon
Ziplock bags for storage of
books, props, icons, boards,
VOCAs, etc. Highsmith
(www.highsmith.com ) and
others sell with handles for
storage on racks.
Quick and Easy Continuums
for Adapting Books:
• From absolute
easiest and least
expensive to ….
• More expensive
and time consuming
adaptations
• All ages and
disabilities
Motor and Page Protection
• Cut up book and place in page
protectors in 3 ring binder.
• Baggie Books: place pages in
sandwich, quart or gallon plastic zip
lock bags, punch holes and place in
3 ring binder or with D ring,
directions:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=
baggie+books&fr=yfp-t501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
• Use clear contact sheets on book.
• Laminate cut pages of book in
laminator machine.
• Purchase Create a Book protectors
from www.augresources.com big or
regular sizes, $16-24
Presentation Binder from Staples, cut up book, quick
and very easy. Can change out books as well.
Motor and Fluffers:
All pretty inexpensive, $1 Stores, hardware
stores, craft stores
• glue Popsicle sticks to pages at
varying intervals (slender or broad
sticks or ”spoon” shaped)
• use clips (binder, banker, butterfly,
barrettes, large paper clips or
plastic colored ones)
• glue on foam pieces, cut pieces of
adhesive backed weather stripping
• hot glue blobs of glue on pages to
build up
• use of carpet furniture protector
felt circles, Velcro circles, Velcro
circles with use of child-proof door
knob protector to attach to pages
and turn.
Motor and Stabilization
• Books in binders
• Carpet Squares with
Velcro, tag board tabs
• C-clamps,
desktops/lapboards
• Lapboards or plastic
children’s tray tables
Motor and Page Turning
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Pencil eraser
Slip on typing aids
Mouthsticks, chinpointer
Book stands
Magnetic wand page turner
– $50,
http://augresources.com
• Books on tape and CD and
online
• Electronic page turners, $1k3K, Touchturner
www.touchturner.com , $9241133+ GEWA $3895,
www.enablemart.com
Speech Support with Icons
• Generic book board, handout
• Simplify print with icons, print
and tape onto book page
• Icons and print on label paper
• Icons and make two sets,
laminate
• Specific book boards for
various titles
• Literacy Strips, homemade
or www.augresources.com,
$10+
Speech and Vocal Output
• Inexpensive recording
devices <$10
• Talking photo books, 8x11
size: Sharper Image,
Bed,Bath and Beyond, others
• Recording devices, $10-100
• One step recording devices
• Multiple message recording
devices
• Book adaptations: BookWorm,
etc.
• Online talking books and
Powerpoint
Cognitive: Learning
Disability Support for Reading
• Books on tape, CD and MP3 and services
such as Project Gutenberg (20K books in
files, http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page or
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ )
www.bookshare.org (fees)
• Reading Pens ($269,
www.enablemart.com )
• Scan and Reading Programs such as Scan
and Read($150,
www.readingmadeez.com/ ); Kurzweil
3000 (www.kurzweil.edu ), ClaroRead
($395, Enablemart), Read and Write
Gold ($595, Enablemart) others
• Speech Recognition programs such as
Dragon Naturally Speaking can also read
text back
LD Support, cont.
• SOLO $785,
www.donjohnston.com includes
Write:Outloud, Read:Outloud,
DraftBuilder, and Co:Writer .
SOLO is a software tool set
that builds learning skills in
reading, writing, planning,
organizing, revising and editing
for students in grades 3 to 12
• Read and Write (standard
$395, Gold $595), WYNN
($959), Write Assist ($120),
Word Q ($180),
www.enablemart.com
Blind or Low Vision Products
• Magnification:
– Windows Screen Magnifier, free
– Scan and Read Pro, $150, 12 languages,
magnifies 400x, scans color, word prediction,
“Breaking Down Barriers to Assistive
Technology” Grant Application Form
www.readingmadeeasy.com
– See It ($295), Zoomtext, magnifier and/or
reader ($395 or $595), Bigshot ($99), Lunar
($395), the Magnifier ($49.95, 2x-10x)
www.enablemart.com
• Screen Readers:
– Window-Eyes ($895), HAL ($795), Supernova
($1195), www.enablemart.com
– JAWS ($895 or $1095), and MAGic ($395545, magnifier)and Open Book (scan and read,
$995) www.freedomscientific.com
Bottom Line:
• Books should be adapted for motor, language, vocal output,
vision, and hearing supports to allow equal opportunities for
literacy development...
• Who should do this? Teachers, therapists, parents or other
family members, friends, volunteers, service clubs or youth
groups with guidance and materials provided.
• Start small and try to adapt 2 books for each class and
build from there.
• Low tech may be faster and more readily available than
higher tech solutions requiring knowledge of authoring
software development.
• Money? Can use current classroom books, recycle your own
children's old books, garage sales, flea markets, $1 stores,
write a mini-grant, Amazon.com sells used books and so
does Barnes and Noble www.bn.com
• There is no substitute for books in the
life of a child. (1952)
~ Mary Ellen Chase ~
• There is more treasure in books than
in all the pirate's loot on Treasure
Island.
~ Walt Disney ~
– http://richmond.k12.va.us/readamillion/readi
ngquotes.htm
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