www.ber.org
AT for Active Learning
for Students
with Intellectual
Disabilities
Pat Satterfield,
Center4ATExcellence
A GA Tools for Life Network
Partner
www.uq.edu.au
Goals for this session
• Explore a variety of AT tools to support the Communication needs of
our students as well as participate in classroom activities
• Demonstrate a variety of ways for our students to acquire new
information and engage with the topics being studied
• Locate free and low cost technology tools that can be used by our
students
• Discuss a variety of ways for our students to demonstrate
understanding
• Writing
• Test-taking, choice-making
• Presentations
www.prweb.com
Juggling It All….
• Health and Safety
• Communication
• Addressing Standards
• Life Skills
• Job Skills
• Behavior
• Documentation
www.catholic.org
What is most important?
• Make it visual!
• Provide many opportunities to work with new
language.
• Provide many opportunities to actively engage with
content. If typical students need 6-8 repetitions,
our students need many more.
• Provide predictable activities with each unit; the
brain likes a pattern with a moderate change!
www.vgastrengthconditioning.com
http://www.lucasworks.org/
teaching-temperature.html
www.slideshare.net
Communication – the Foundation for All
Classroom Tools – communicate with others, access the curriculum
• Low Tech – pictures and symbols – no power needed
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Engineering the Environment
Aided Language Stimulation
Symbols for communication boards, schedules, supporting learning
Tools for acquiring symbols
• Boardmaker, Symbolstix, PictureIt, LessonPix
• Mid Tech – uses a battery
• Single message devices
• Sequenced message devices
• Direct Select message devices
mind42.com
Communication – the Foundation for All
Individual Communication Systems
Quick Hits, Core Vocabulary, and
Keyboard
• Low Tech
• Customized wallet, ring, notebook of
symbols
• High Tech
• Customized device
• iPad, Tablet, or Phone with an app –
Sounding Board, Tap to Talk, Fat Cat Chat,
Scene and Heard It, Autismate,
TouchChat, Sonoflex
http://www.c4atx.com/
training-resources.html
Language and Video Modeling Autismate
SB1 Students will analyze the nature of the
relationships between structures and
functions in living cells.
a. Explain the role of cell organelles for both
prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, including the
cell membrane, in maintaining homeostasis and
cell reproduction.
Before student can discuss the role of cell organelles in
maintaining homeostasis and cell reproduction, they must
be able to identify cell organelles and the function of
those organelles.
Teaching Any Content – Academic or Life
Skills
• Build Background Knowledge
• Learn new vocabulary
• Read about the topic
• Watch PP or video to gain understanding
• Learning experiences
• Write about the topic
• Talk about the topic
Phyl Macomber
The Power of the P.A.C.T.
TFL archived webinar on The P.A.C.T. at www.gatfl.org
Plant and Animal Cells –
Build Background Knowledge
All living things have cells.
• The cells are the same in many
ways and different in other ways,
depending on the organism and
the what the cell does.
• Look at examples of cells using the
microscope or PP of different kinds
of cells
• Do an experiment with some of
your own cells
Plant and Animal Cells –
Learning the Language of the Standard
• Graphic Organizer
• Cell Rap
• Introduce the vocabulary of
the cell organelles using the
interactive white board or the
IntelliKeys
http://www.hsprintables.com/files/partsofacelldefinitions.pdf
Plant and Animal Cells
Read about the Topic
• Use advanced reading aid or screen
reader to read about cells
• Read:OutLoud, Kurzweil 3000, TextHELP
• Read Naturally
• Use Snap and Read or Rewordify to
lower the readability of electronic
materials
• Use a talking presentation
• Classroom Suite, Clicker, Jabbla, Vizzle
• Use a printed PowerPoint with a
Bookworm
http://www.biology4kids.com
/files/cell_main.html
www.ablenetinc.com
Plant and Animal Cells
Engaging Activities
• Matching words and
pictures
• Puzzle activity
• Fold-ables
• Make an edible cell
• Jeopardy (with SGDs)
• Game using the All-Turn-It
Spinner
• Bingo (Boardmaker,
LessonPix)
http://mccarterbiology.edublogs.org/
assignments/chapter-7-cells/
www.pinterest.com
atclassroom.blogspot.com
Plant and Animal Cells -Writing
• Writing with pictures
• Low tech
• Onscreen
• Clicker 6 and apps, Classroom Suite, Pixwriter
• Writing with words
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Whole-word word processing
Auditory support
Spelling with auditory feedback
Word Prediction, word banks
Grammar support
SOLO, WordQ, Ginger, CS, Clicker,
First Author
Plant and Animal Cells
Talking about what you learned
Presentations
• Make a book and tell about it to the class
• Make a PowerPoint and use it to guide your
presentation
• Use pictures to demonstrate your
understanding
• Use a communication device to tell about
your pictures.
Juanita Pritchard
www.nationalstar.org
Assessment
Choose AT tools that collect
data!
• Communication Devices
• Classroom Suite
• First Author
Questions
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Pat Satterfield
[email protected]
Center 4 AT Excellence
GA Tools for Life Network Partner