By Joan Bruno, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Gateway 20-Child User Manual for the TouchChat 2003© Communication Technology Resources www.gatewaytolanguageandlearning.com Gateway 20-Child Manual Overview Gateway 20-Child targets preschool and school-aged children who are communicating using 1-2 word messages. They can recognize symbols of nouns, verbs and some adjectives and adverbs. These emerging communicators have the potential to improve their expressive language abilities. Some users may have transitioned from Gateway 12-Child to Gateway 20-Child. The MAIN page of Gateway 20-Child contains the frequently used words – I, you, want, eat, have, go, wear, drink, make and play. It contains folders for People, Family, Things I Do (verbs), Little Words, Descriptive words, Things and Places. Each word and word category is color-coded according to a modified Fitzgerald Key format (i.e., People - yellow; Verbs – green; Little words – Pink, Descriptive Words – blue; Things – Orange and Places – purple). This color-coding is consistent throughout all of the Gateway files to ease the transition from one file to the next level of complexity. The People category contains people, some pronouns and the question word “who”. Within the Fitzgerald Key, “Little Words” are defined as prepositions, articles and conjunctions. Within Gateway 20-Child it contains several articles and a small core of prepositions. Within the Fitzgerald Key, “Descriptive Words” includes adjective, adverbs, and time words. Within Gateway 20-Child it contains a small core of each of these word categories. Gateway 20-Child includes features to help children learn to form multi-word sentences and to expand the size of the core vocabulary. Sentence Development Links are used to provide a simplified approach to facilitate sentence formation. Selecting a verb results in automatically opening a page of associated objects or “Things” that the child can use to complete a message. For example, after selecting “eat” a page with common foods is automatically opened. The MAIN page is pictured to the right. Below it is the linked Foods page with the two blue Describe and Color/Shapes Folders. The “I + want + eat” is selected from the MAIN page. Once the Sentence Development Link opens, based on the example to the right, the user had selected “scrambled” from the “Describe” folder and would then select “egg” from the Foods page. If the foods provided on this page do not match the preferences of the user, these should be customized to match the child’s eating preferences. Most of the pages reached through a Sentence Development Link, also contain both a “Describe” and “Color/Shapes” folder. These folders or links provide additional Gateway 20-Child Manual (revised 8/12/14) 2 opportunities for a child to expand his/her sentence complexity by adding an adjective or adverb to the message. A child can easily ask for the “chocolate” or “big” cookie, without needing to navigate away from the food context. Efforts have been made to match the descriptive words within these links to the vocabulary on the targeted object page. That is, the word, “chocolate” is provided for the food and make pages, but the word “brown” is provided with the clothing items. Within the “Things I Do” page, Semantic Power Strips are introduced. Semantic Power Strips are sets of paradigmatically associated words that provide a focused array of vocabulary to broaden the options available to the user. For example, selecting a symbol such as “say+” as pictured to the right, will open a semantic power strip containing semantically related words. In the example of “say+”, semantically related words are sing, talk, call, promise speak and yell. In Gateway 20Child, “cooking+” opens a Semantic Power Strip containing “cooking, mixing, pouring and baking. Speaking children learn language by hearing the words of a language and using those words to communicate. For users of AAC systems it is a challenge for young child to learn to add word endings when communicating. They must develop the metalinguistic knowledge to know that an “-ing” or and “-ed” is added to a words. Within 20 – Child, the present progressive verb form, ‘-ing”, is modeled for some of the verbs on the verb page. The intent is to promote spontaneous usage of this verb form when communicating in later page sets. A “My Themes” folder is located on the Main Page. This folder links the child to a set of five Thematic folders – About Me, Time to Chat, Time to Learn, Time to Play, and Time in Town. Each of the folders contains a variety of words, messages of activity sets designed to increase a child’s opportunities for participating in dialogues, educational and recreational activities. The About Me folder enables a user to share some basic identifying information about himself. The Time to Chat folder contains five subfolders helping a child learn to ask questions and to comment. The Time to Learn Folder contains a monthly topic folder with single words and/or phrases often used within the context of the school setting. This folder also contains vocabulary for Circle Time and Common Core. The goal of the Common page is to support children’s whose educational program uses the Common Core. It enables a child to make generic responses that may enhance participation across a variety of activities. The “Time to Play” folder (pictured on the right) offers twelve (12) play activities for a child to engage in with peers or mediated with an adult communication partner. These include Tea Party, Dress-Up, the Candy Land game, Store, the Hi-Ho-Cherry-O Gateway 20-Child Manual (revised 8/12/14) 3 game, a Let’s Read general Literacy page, the book, “Clifford’s Animal Sounds”, the book, “Have you Seen my Cat?”, a Farm page, a Zoo page, a page to play Doctor, and a page to learn to Make a Phone Call. The “Time in Town” Folder includes pages that can be used when communicating within the community. The ten (10) thematic pages include Grocery Store, At the Mall, Vacation, McDonald’s, Ice Cream, In the Park, Amusement Park, Religion, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Mealtime Chat. The goal of the Mealtime Chat page is to help a child use “small talk” during a meal. There are three open pages created for custom activities. Practice Sentences The practice sentences are provided to help the adults working with a child using this page set to become familiar with the contents and location of some of the core vocabulary. It is also intended to demonstrate the complexity of sentences that can be created using Child 20. Navigating Gateway Child-20 is simple once the organization is understood. The following sentences can be created using the MAIN page followed by a Sentence Development Strip. Since the folders automatically close when a vocabulary item is selected, upon speaking the last word of each sentence, Gateway returns the user to the MAIN page. I want eat ice cream. I drink apple juice. You want make picture. I wear slippers. I play with computer game. The following sentences make use of the Describe and/or Color Shapes folders located within the respective Sentence Development Strips. The bold words in Blue are the items contained within the respective folder. You want make sparkle necklace. I eat melted ice cream. I wear polka dot slippers. I play with big teddy bear. The following sentences make use of the folders People, Family, Things I Do, Little Words, Describe, Things, and Places. The words are colored according to the Fitzgerald Key format and match the colored folders with the Gateway page set. baking the yellow cookie. swim with . love the pool. want to make pretty picture give Gateway 20-Child Manual (revised 8/12/14) . 4 Gateway 20 Child Page Sort PEOPLE I you FAMILY want have watch THINGS I DO eat go wear LITTLE WORDS drink make play DESCRIBE THINGS PLACES MY THEMES MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN who him it man boy he we woman girl she they teacher her mail carrier friend therapist doctor fireman policeman PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE baby User’s name mommy daddy Me mine my aunt uncle sister brother FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY – ME+ FAMILY – ME+ FAMILY – ME+ FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY Gateway 20-Child Manual (revised 8/12/14) grandmom grandfather FAMILY FAMILY ask+ ask tell buy call+ talk say call sing can+ can can’t don coloring+ coloring drawing painting writing come+ come go bring cooking+ cooking mixing pouring baking get+ get got put have give help like+ like love hug make give riding+ riding driving flying see+ see watch look THINGS I DO ASK+ ASK+ THINGS I DO THINGS I DO CALL+ CALL+ CALL+ CALL+ THINGS I DO CAN+ CAN+ CAN+ THINGS I DO COLORING+ COLORING+ COLORING+ COLORING+ THINGS I DO COME+ COME+ COME+ THINGS I DO COOKING+ COOKING+ COOKING+ COOKING+ THINGS I DO GET+ GET+ GET+ GET+ THINGS I DO THINGS I DO THINGS I DO LIKE+ LIKE+ LIKE+ THINGS I DO THINGS I DO THINGS I DO RIDING+ RIDING+ RIDING+ RIDING+ SEE+ SEE+ SEE+ 5 sleep swim walking+ walking running jumping skipping working THINGS I DO THINGS I DO THINGS I DO WALKING+ WALKING+ WALKING+ WALKING+ THINGS I DO in on under this a up down off that and to from with those the behind in front between LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS big little pretty ugly sad happy funny silly fast slow afraid mad same different hurt sick COLORS TIME DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE red brown black green orange COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS MORE DESCRIBE pink yellow purple blue white dark star sprinkles sparkle light round rectangle triangle square COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS dirty clean right wrong hard soft long short low high old new hot cold crispy frozen tired hungry thirsty MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE MORE DESCRIBE Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday time morning day afternoon night week month year yesterday today TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME tomorrow when TIME TIME computer block cup chair What book ball spoon bed iPad car dog party secret bus cat present FOODS CLOTHES THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS THINGS egg sandwich yogurt milk cookie pancake pasta chicken nuggets water fruit cereal French fires fish juice chips donut burger vegetable soda FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS FOODS pants pajamas bathing suit glasses jacket shirt slipper sandals bracelet hat CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES dress underpants shoes sock backpack gloves sweater undershirt socks costume CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES bathroom PT OT Speech therapy park store where bedroom pool church home living room outside zoo school kitchen library McDonald’s farm PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES PLACES JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPPTEMPER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN TIME TO LEARN January Happy New Year winter cold snow New Year’s Day Martin L. King JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY Chinese New Year holiday January 1 JANUARY February winter Groundhog’s Day shadow leap year Valentine’s Day card candy President’s Day Abe Lincoln G. Washington FEBRUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY March St. Patrick’s Day spring windy lamb lion Easter Easter egg Easter Bunny chocolate MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH April spring flowers Passover matzo APRIL APRIL APRIL APRIL APRIL May spring flowers card Mother’s Day present Memorial Day soldier flag parade May Day MAY MAY MAY MAY MAY MAY MAY MAY MAY MAY MAY June summer Fathers Day present card Flag Day graduation diploma congratulations party JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE July summer hot July 4th picnic fireworks beach sand sun sunburn lotion towel beach ball beach chair JULY JULY JULY JULY JULY JULY JULY JULY JULY JULY JULY JULY JULY JULY August summer hot hot dog hamburger picnic marshmallow camp bug spray cabin bug boating fishing hiking AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST September fall leaves apples school Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER October fall leaves Halloween costume pumpkin Jack-O-Lantern haunted house ghost witch Chris. Columbus America discover ship OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER November fall Thanksgiving pilgrim Indian turkey cranberry pumpkin corn election vote debate speech President governor mayor NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER December winter snow Christmas Baby Jesus Mary Chanukah latke dreidel DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER menorah Santa presents Christmas tree reindeer DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER I he she it you what more different go want make stop look like don’t this that in out COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE COMMON CORE Gateway 20 Child Alpha Sort a Abe Lincoln afraid afternoon America and apples APRIL April ask ask+ AUGUST August aunt baby Baby Jesus backpack baking ball bathing suit bathroom beach beach ball beach chair bed bedroom behind between big black block blue boating book boy bracelet bring brother brown bug bug spray burger bus buy cabin call call+ camp can can’t can+ LITTLE WORDS FEBRUARY DESCRIBE TIME OCTOBER LITTLE WORDS SEPTEMBER TIME TO LEARN APRIL ASK+ THINGS I DO TIME TO LEARN AUGUST FAMILY FAMILY DECEMBER CLOTHES COOKING+ THINGS CLOTHES PLACES JULY JULY JULY THINGS PLACES LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS DESCRIBE COLORS THINGS COLORS AUGUST THINGS PEOPLE CLOTHES COME+ FAMILY COLORS AUGUST AUGUST FOODS THINGS THINGS I DO AUGUST CALL+ THINGS I DO AUGUST CAN+ CAN+ THINGS I DO candy car card card card cat cereal chair Chanukah chicken nuggets Chinese New Year chips chocolate Chris. Columbus Christmas Christmas tree church clean CLOTHES cold cold coloring coloring+ COLORS come come+ computer congratulations cookie cooking cooking+ corn costume costume cranberry crispy cup daddy dark day debate DECEMBER December DESCRIBE different different diploma dirty discover doctor FEBRUARY THINGS FEBRUARY MAY JUNE THINGS FOODS THINGS DECEMBER FOODS JANUARY FOODS MARCH OCTOBER DECEMBER DECEMBER PLACES MORE DESCRIBE THINGS MORE DESCRIBE JANUARY COLORING+ THINGS I DO DESCRIBE COME+ THINGS I DO THINGS JUNE FOODS COOKING+ THINGS I DO NOVEMBER CLOTHES OCTOBER NOVEMBER MORE DESCRIBE THINGS FAMILY COLORS TIME NOVEMBER TIME TO LEARN DECEMBER MAIN DESCRIBE COMMON CORE JUNE MORE DESCRIBE OCTOBER PEOPLE dog don don’t donut down drawing dreidel dress drink driving Easter Easter Bunny Easter egg eat egg election fall fall fall FAMILY farm fast Fathers Day FEBRUARY February fireman fireworks fish fishing flag Flag Day flowers flowers flying FOODS French fires Friday friend from frozen fruit funny G. Washington get get+ ghost girl give give glasses gloves go go THINGS CAN+ COMMON CORE FOODS LITTLE WORDS COLORING+ DECEMBER CLOTHES MAIN RIDING+ MARCH MARCH MARCH MAIN FOODS NOVEMBER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER MAIN PLACES DESCRIBE JUNE TIME TO LEARN FEBRUARY PEOPLE JULY FOODS AUGUST MAY JUNE APRIL MAY RIDING+ THINGS FOODS TIME PEOPLE LITTLE WORDS MORE DESCRIBE FOODS DESCRIBE FEBRUARY GET+ THINGS I DO OCTOBER PEOPLE THINGS I DO THINGS I DO CLOTHES CLOTHES MAIN COME+ go got governor graduation grandfather grandmom green Groundhog’s Day Halloween hamburger happy Happy New Year hard hat haunted house have have he he help her high hiking him holiday home hot hot hot hot dog hug hungry hurt I I in in in front Indian iPad it it Jack-O-Lantern jacket JANUARY January January 1 juice JULY July July 4th jumping JUNE COMMON CORE GET+ NOVEMBER JUNE FAMILY FAMILY COLORS FEBRUARY OCTOBER AUGUST DESCRIBE JANUARY MORE DESCRIBE CLOTHES OCTOBER MAIN GET+ PEOPLE COMMON CORE THINGS I DO PEOPLE MORE DESCRIBE AUGUST PEOPLE JANUARY PLACES MORE DESCRIBE JULY AUGUST AUGUST LIKE+ MORE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE MAIN COMMON CORE LITTLE WORDS COMMON CORE LITTLE WORDS NOVEMBER THINGS PEOPLE COMMON CORE OCTOBER CLOTHES TIME TO LEARN JANUARY JANUARY FOODS TIME TO LEARN JULY JULY WALKING+ TIME TO LEARN June kitchen lamb latke leap year leaves leaves library light like like like+ lion little LITTLE WORDS living room long look look lotion love low mad mail carrier make make make man MARCH March marshmallow Martin L. King Mary matzo MAY May May Day mayor McDonald’s Me Memorial Day menorah milk mine mixing mommy Monday month more MORE DESCRIBE morning Mother’s Day my JUNE PLACES MARCH DECEMBER FEBRUARY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER PLACES COLORS LIKE+ COMMON CORE THINGS I DO MARCH DESCRIBE MAIN PLACES MORE DESCRIBE SEE+ COMMON CORE JULY LIKE+ MORE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE PEOPLE MAIN THINGS I DO COMMON CORE PEOPLE TIME TO LEARN MARCH AUGUST JANUARY DECEMBER APRIL TIME TO LEARN MAY MAY NOVEMBER PLACES FAMILY – ME+ MAY DECEMBER FOODS FAMILY – ME+ COOKING+ FAMILY TIME TIME COMMON CORE DESCRIBE TIME MAY FAMILY – ME+ MY THEMES new New Year’s Day night NOVEMBER November OCTOBER October off old on orange OT out outside painting pajamas pancake pants parade park party party Passover pasta PEOPLE picnic picnic pilgrim pink PLACES play policeman pool pouring present present present presents President President’s Day pretty PT pumpkin pumpkin purple put rectangle red reindeer riding riding+ right MAIN MORE DESCRIBE JANUARY TIME TIME TO LEARN NOVEMBER TIME TO LEARN OCTOBER LITTLE WORDS MORE DESCRIBE LITTLE WORDS COLORS PLACES COMMON CORE PLACES COLORING+ CLOTHES FOODS CLOTHES MAY PLACES THINGS JUNE APRIL FOODS MAIN JULY AUGUST NOVEMBER COLORS MAIN MAIN PEOPLE PLACES COOKING+ THINGS MAY JUNE DECEMBER NOVEMBER FEBRUARY DESCRIBE PLACES OCTOBER NOVEMBER COLORS GET+ COLORS COLORS DECEMBER RIDING+ THINGS I DO MORE DESCRIBE Rosh Hashanah round running sad same sand sandals sandwich Santa Saturday say school school secret see see+ SEPPTEMPER September shadow she she ship shirt shoes short sick silly sing sister skipping sleep slipper slow snow snow sock socks soda soft soldier sparkle speech Speech therapy spoon spring spring spring sprinkles square St. Patrick’s Day star stop store SEPTEMBER COLORS WALKING+ DESCRIBE DESCRIBE JULY CLOTHES FOODS DECEMBER TIME CALL+ PLACES SEPTEMBER THINGS SEE+ RIDING+ TIME TO LEARN SEPTEMBER FEBRUARY PEOPLE COMMON CORE OCTOBER CLOTHES CLOTHES MORE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE CALL+ FAMILY WALKING+ THINGS I DO CLOTHES DESCRIBE JANUARY DECEMBER CLOTHES CLOTHES FOODS MORE DESCRIBE MAY COLORS NOVEMBER PLACES THINGS MARCH APRIL MAY COLORS COLORS MARCH COLORS COMMON CORE PLACES summer summer summer sun sunburn Sunday sweater swim talk teacher tell Thanksgiving that that the therapist they THINGS THINGS I DO thirsty this this those Thursday TIME time tired to today tomorrow towel triangle Tuesday turkey ugly uncle under underpants undershirt up User’s name Valentine’s Day vegetable vote walking walking+ want want watch watch water we wear JUNE JULY AUGUST JULY JULY TIME CLOTHES THINGS I DO CALL+ PEOPLE ASK+ NOVEMBER LITTLE WORDS COMMON CORE LITTLE WORDS PEOPLE PEOPLE MAIN MAIN MORE DESCRIBE LITTLE WORDS COMMON CORE LITTLE WORDS TIME DESCRIBE TIME MORE DESCRIBE LITTLE WORDS TIME TIME JULY COLORS TIME NOVEMBER DESCRIBE FAMILY LITTLE WORDS CLOTHES CLOTHES LITTLE WORDS FAMILY FEBRUARY FOODS NOVEMBER WALKING+ THINGS I DO MAIN COMMON CORE MAIN SEE+ FOODS PEOPLE MAIN Wednesday week What what when where white who windy winter winter winter witch TIME TIME THINGS COMMON CORE TIME PLACES COLORS PEOPLE MARCH JANUARY FEBRUARY DECEMBER OCTOBER with woman working writing wrong year yellow yesterday yogurt Yom Kippur you you zoo LITTLE WORDS PEOPLE THINGS I DO COLORING+ MORE DESCRIBE TIME COLORS TIME FOODS SEPTEMBER MAIN COMMON CORE PLACES
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