By Joan Bruno, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Gateway 20-Teen User Manual for the TouchChat 2003© Communication Technology Resources www.gatewaytolanguageandlearning.com Gateway 20-Teen Manual Overview Gateway 20-Teen targets teens or young adults with limited expressive abilities who can benefit from a 20-location grid. It differs from Gateway 20-Child in terms of some of the core vocabulary items and in the activities selected within the Themes pages. Users of 20-Teen can recognize symbols of nouns, verbs and some adjectives and adverbs. They may have the potential to improve their expressive language abilities. Some users may have transitioned from Gateway 12-Child to Gateway 20-Teen. The MAIN page of Gateway 20-Teen 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 with People - yellow; Verbs – green; Little words – Pink, Descriptive Words – blue; Things – Orange and Places – purple. This colorcoding is consistent throughout all of the Gateway files to ease the transition from as an individual moves from one file up 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-Teen 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-Teen it contains a small core of each of these word categories. Gateway 20-Teen includes features that may help an individual learn to form multi-word messages and to expand the size of their core vocabulary. Sentence Development Links provide a simplified approach to facilitate sentence formation. Selecting a verb results in automatically opening a page of associated objects or “Things” that can be used to complete a message. For example, after selecting “eat” from the MAIN page, the foods page is automatically opened. The “eat” icon from the MAIN page is pictured to the right. Pictured below it is the linked Foods page with the two blue folders - Describe and Color/Shapes. The “I + want + eat” had been 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. Within most of the pages reached through a Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 8/12/14) 2 sentence development link, also contain both a “Describe” and “Color/Shapes” link. These links or folders provide additional opportunities for an individual to expand his/her sentence complexity by adding an adjective or adverb to a message. A user 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 targets 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. The 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 20-Teen, “cooking+” opens a Semantic Power Strip containing “cooking, mixing, pouring and baking Within 20–Teen, 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 user to a set of five Thematic folders – About Me, Time to Chat, Time to Learn, Time to Relax, 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. The Time to Chat folder contains five subfolders helping a user 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 the Common Core. The goal the Common Core page is to support user’s who may be enrolled in an educational program using the “Common Core”. This page can enable the user to actively participate using generic messages across a variety of classes. The “Time to Relax” folder offers seven (7) play activities for a user to engage in with peers or mediated with an adult communication partner. These include Bingo, Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 8/12/14) 3 Magazine, Cards, TV, Snack, Farm and a Zoo page. The “Time in Town” Folder, pictured to the right, includes pages that can be used when communicating within the community. The twelve (13) thematic pages include Grocery Store, At the Mall, Restaurant, Ice Cream, Hair Salon, Doctor, Call Someone, Amusement Park, In the Park, Religion, Scouts, Mealtime Chat and Vacation. The goal of the Mealtime Chat page is to help the user engage in “small talk” during a meal. There is one (1) open page created for a custom activity. Practice Sentences The practice sentences are provided to help the adults working with an individual 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 Teen 20. Navigating Gateway Teen-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 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 big puzzle. 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 movies. want to make pretty picture give Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 8/12/14) . 4 Gateway 20-Teen Page Sort PEOPLE I you THINGS I DO want have don’t watch 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 FAMILY we they man boy he him woman girl she her teacher doctor friend it who therapist fireman policeman PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE baby User’s name mom dad Me mine my aunt uncle sister brother FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY – ME+ FAMILY – ME+ FAMILY – ME+ FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 8/12/14) grandmom grandfather FAMILY FAMILY ask+ ask tell buy call+ talk say call sing can coloring+ coloring drawing painting writing come+ come go bring cooking+ cooking mixing pouring baking get+ get got have give help like+ like love hug make give riding+ riding driving flying see+ see watch look sleep swim walking+ walking THINGS I DO ASK+ ASK+ THINGS I DO THINGS I DO CALL+ CALL+ CALL+ CALL+ THINGS I DO 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 LIKE+ LIKE+ LIKE+ THINGS I DO THINGS I DO THINGS I DO RIDING+ RIDING+ RIDING+ RIDING+ SEE+ SEE+ SEE+ THINGS I DO THINGS I DO THINGS I DO WALKING+ 5 running jumping skipping working 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 pink yellow purple blue COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS MORE DESCRIBE Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 8/12/14) white dark star sprinkles sparkle light round rectangle triangle square 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 tomorrow when TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME TIME computer THINGS 6 cell phone cup chair What book pencil spoon bed iPad car napkin party money bus pet present FOODS CLOTHES 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 pajama bathing suit glasses jacket shirt slipper sandals bracelet hat dress underpants shoes sock CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 8/12/14) backpack gloves sweater undershirt socks costume CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES bathroom PT OT Speech therapy park mall where bedroom pool church home living room outside town school kitchen library McDonald’s movies 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 Chinese New Year holiday January 1 JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY February winter FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 7 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 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 Hassanah Yom Kippur SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE October fall leaves Halloween costume pumpkin Jack-O-Lantern haunted house ghost witch C. Columbus America discover ship OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER JULY JULY JULY November fall Thanksgiving NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 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 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 July summer hot Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 8/12/14) 8 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 December winter snow Christmas Baby Jesus Mary Chanukah latke dreidel menorah Santa DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 8/12/14) presents Christmas tree reindeer 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 9 Gateway 20 - Teen Alpha Sort a Abe Lincoln afraid afternoon America and apples APRIL April ask ask+ AUGUST August aunt baby Baby Jesus backpack baking bathing suit bathroom beach beach ball beach chair bed bedroom behind between big black blue boating book boy bracelet bring brother brown bug bug spray burger bus buy C. Columbus cabin call call+ camp can candy car card 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+ CLOTHES PLACES JULY JULY JULY THINGS PLACES LITTLE WORDS LITTLE WORDS DESCRIBE COLORS COLORS AUGUST THINGS PEOPLE CLOTHES COME+ FAMILY COLORS AUGUST AUGUST FOODS THINGS THINGS I DO OCTOBER AUGUST CALL+ THINGS I DO AUGUST THINGS I DO FEBRUARY THINGS FEBRUARY Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 5/14/14) card card cell phone cereal chair Chanukah chicken nuggets Chinese New Year chips chocolate Christmas Christmas tree church clean CLOTHES cold cold coloring coloring+ COLORS come come+ computer congratulations cookie cooking cooking+ corn costume costume cranberry crispy cup dad dark day debate DECEMBER December DESCRIBE different different diploma dirty discover doctor don’t don’t donut down drawing MAY JUNE THINGS FOODS THINGS DECEMBER FOODS JANUARY FOODS MARCH 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 MAIN COMMON CORE FOODS LITTLE WORDS COLORING+ 10 dreidel dress drink driving Easter Easter Bunny Easter egg eat egg election fall fall fall FAMILY 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 go got governor graduation grandfather grandmom green DECEMBER CLOTHES MAIN RIDING+ MARCH MARCH MARCH MAIN FOODS NOVEMBER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER PEOPLE 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 GET+ THINGS I DO CLOTHES CLOTHES MAIN COME+ COMMON CORE GET+ NOVEMBER JUNE FAMILY FAMILY COLORS Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 5/14/14) 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 June kitchen lamb latke leap year leaves leaves 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 PLACES MARCH DECEMBER FEBRUARY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 11 library light like like like+ lion little LITTLE WORDS living room long look look lotion love low mad make make make mall man MARCH March marshmallow Martin L. King Mary matzo MAY May May Day mayor McDonald’s Me Memorial Day menorah milk mine mixing mom Monday money month more MORE DESCRIBE morning Mother’s Day movies my MY THEMES napkin new New Year’s Day night PLACES COLORS LIKE+ COMMON CORE THINGS I DO MARCH DESCRIBE MAIN PLACES MORE DESCRIBE SEE+ COMMON CORE JULY LIKE+ MORE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE MAIN THINGS I DO COMMON CORE PLACES 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 THINGS TIME COMMON CORE DESCRIBE TIME MAY PLACES FAMILY – ME+ MAIN THINGS MORE DESCRIBE JANUARY TIME Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 5/14/14) NOVEMBER November OCTOBER October off old on orange OT out outside painting pajama pancake pants parade park party party Passover pasta pencil PEOPLE pet picnic picnic pilgrim pink PLACES play policeman pool pouring present present present presents President President’s Day pretty PT pumpkin pumpkin purple rectangle red reindeer riding riding+ right Rosh Hassanah round running 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 THINGS MAIN THINGS JULY AUGUST NOVEMBER COLORS MAIN MAIN PEOPLE PLACES COOKING+ THINGS MAY JUNE DECEMBER NOVEMBER FEBRUARY DESCRIBE PLACES OCTOBER NOVEMBER COLORS COLORS COLORS DECEMBER RIDING+ THINGS I DO MORE DESCRIBE SEPTEMBER COLORS WALKING+ 12 sad same sand sandals sandwich Santa Saturday say school school 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 summer summer summer sun sunburn DESCRIBE DESCRIBE JULY CLOTHES FOODS DECEMBER TIME CALL+ PLACES SEPTEMBER 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 JUNE JULY AUGUST JULY JULY Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 5/14/14) 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 town 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 Wednesday week What what 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 PLACES 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 TIME TIME THINGS COMMON CORE 13 when where white who windy winter winter winter witch with woman TIME PLACES COLORS MARCH JANUARY FEBRUARY DECEMBER OCTOBER LITTLE WORDS PEOPLE Gateway 20-Teen Manual (revised 5/14/14) working writing wrong year yellow yesterday yogurt Yom Kippur you you THINGS I DO COLORING+ MORE DESCRIBE TIME COLORS TIME FOODS SEPTEMBER MAIN COMMON CORE 14
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