Communication
The exchange of information between a sender and a receiver. Any act by which a person gives to or receives from another person information about a person's needs, desires, perceptions, knowledge, or affective states.
What is communication?
A foundational skill for reading because it helps
learners understand that words are made up of
discrete sounds that can be changed, rearranged, or
isolated to create new words
What is phonological awareness?
A group of decision-making individuals who may include the parents, teachers (general and special education), a representative of the local education agency, someone who can interpret data and results, and others who know the child.
What is the IEP team?
Any "item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities."
What is assistive technology?
A foundational way of thinking. An approach that does not require proof of a student's abilities in advance. Instead, it is a commitment to being open to every student's potential.
What is presuming competence?
Communication has different purposes. They include...
What are wants and needs, information transfer, social closeness, social etiquette, and internal dialogue?
This involves listening and speaking, not reading or writing.
Daily Double: Identify one form of low-, mid-, and high- tech to support this skill.
What is phonemic awareness?
Daily Double: Picture/object sort, Elkonin boxes, pocket charts, switches, tech talks/gotalk, apps, QR code sorting,
Student, Environment, Task, and Tool
Daily Double: What are the two others?
What is the SETT Framework?
What is the UKAT and WATI?
Three legislative acts that protect an individual's right to assistive technology.
What are IDEA, the Technology Act, and Section 504?
This deficit model of disability identifies that impairment is something wrong with the body or mind, and people need to be cured.
What is the medical model of disability?
Relying on different modes of communication and integrating many forms into a single interaction is called.
What is multi-model communication?
Connecting phonemes (sounds) to graphemes (letters).
Daily Double: Identify at least one low-, mid-, and high-tech AT supports for phonics.
What is phonics?
Daily Double: Elkonin Boxes, Flip books, sandpaper letters, finger tracing, reading wands, clothespin matching, switches, tech talks, smart boards, iPads (apps).
Planning, composing, revising, and publishing
What is the writing process?
A proactive framework to make learning more accessible to students with disabilities by reducing barriers to accessing the general education curriculum.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
This term is a social identity AND can also be defined as more than a physical diagnosis. This term refers to the lived experiences in which parameters and barriers are placed upon a person's life.
What is disability?
This is both an area of practice and research.
What is augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)?
List-group-label, analogies, wonderful word of the day
What are vocabulary strategies?
These are low-tech supports for writing.
What are pencil grips, raised line paper, a raised surface, or whiteboards? Also, a hair tie.
All students can access learning in multiple ways.
What are multiple means of engagement?
This model of disability operates on the premise that individuals with disabilities are not impacted by their impairments but by the world around them.
What is the social model of disability?
The difference between teaching a skill for the first time or supporting the re-teaching of a skill that has been lost.
What is habilitation versus rehabilitation?
Jackdaw, related reading, provoke, story mapping
What are comprehension strategies?
Dragon Naturally Speaking and Read and Write
What are high-tech tools for writing supports?
Students are given various was to perceive and make meaning of information.
What is multiple means of representation?
This model of disability identifies that disability is a natural part of the human experience.
What is the human rights model of disability?
Communication systems that are used to supplement speech are...
Communication systems that are used to replace speech are...
Daily double: define aided versus unaided communication
What is the difference between augmentative and alternative?
This AT strategy improves decoding, word recognition, and recall of textual information.
What is speech to text and/or text to speech?
Simplified screens, consistent placement of menus and controls, graphics with text supports, audio output, appropriate and unambiguous feedback, and easy error correction are all important features for....
What is an educational app?
Students are allowed to demonstrate their learning in
different ways.
What is multiple means of action and expression?
This is a human right.
The right to education, assistive technology, or communication (all accepted answers).