AT and Education
Examples of assistive technologies
What are clickers, interactive videos, and gaming?
Electronic devices that rely on the user’s selection of a picture-symbol, letter, word, or phrase, after which a synthetic or digitized output is produced to communicate the speaker’s message to a listener.
What is Speech Generating Devices?
Modeling and visual demonstrations as cues to teach or alter behaviors
What is Video Modeling?
Professionals involved in making decisions about AT devices must be sensitive to both _____and _____ values and preferences.
What is children and family?
Purpose of robotics
What is to fulfill functions that humans are typically able to do on their own (daily tasks and functioning) and to assist with social skills and as a behavioral tool for therapy?
Assistive Technologies role for children in the classroom
What is supplementing learning to develop problem solving skills and level out their learning abilities?
All forms of communication (other than oral speech) that are used to express thoughts, needs, wants, and ideas.
What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication?
Cognitive-behavioral procedure that uses the individual as a model
What is Self Modeling?
A person whose social identity, or membership in some social category, calls into question his or her humanity—the person is devalued, spoiled, or flawed in the eyes of others
What is stigmatization?
robotics may increase this in a child
What is attention, length of gaze, amount of verbal communication, and improvement in isolating social behaviors?
1 pro and 1 con of assistive technology
(Pro) What is sharing modes of assistive learning to others who may not know they exist?
(Con) What is favoring children with technology skills and parents with technological experiences?
Made SGD’s a more common option for children with speech development disorders
What is the introduction of Ipod touches and Ipads?
Video Modeling teaches children with ASD
What is Social Skills?
In study discussed, benefits shared by the parents and students
What is motivation to write, text length, quality of writing, academic self-concept, confidence, less frustrated?
Children's preference when it comes to the robots appearance
What is the robots which were more human-like?
Researcher's findings of children's use of technology
What is a discrepancy between each child's specific skill level?
The percentage of individuals with ASD who lack functional vocal output capabilities
What is 50%?
Factor that had the biggest impact on video modeling
What is Age?
The most critical factors for successful inclusion
What is attitude of teacher, the learning environment including resources, and peer acceptance?
Positive aspects of robotics in terms of autism
What is increase in attention and engagement, as well as a reduction in social anxiety. Have the ability to reinforce social tools that are learned in therapy?
Reason for discrepancy findings
What is parent's differing abilities to encourage and promote technological skills?
It can be modified to represent the child’s age and gender, it is portable, and it can match to the developmental level of the child
What are positives of SGD’s?
Children will continue looking for a playmate, if they get rejected, they will enhance their social emotional development and keep looking
What is persistence?
The feelings of a family when coming to an AT professional for a device or recommendations?
What is loss of power, loss of valuable information from this?
Communication different with robots by.....
What is allows communication to be experienced through a simplified version of a human interaction?