The iPad: Transformative technology for adults with disabilities
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- 1. The iPad: Transformative technology for adults with disabilities Disability Support Workers Lismore
- 9. “ The brain does not come with any specific programmes that enable information to leap off the screen into the head ” Hattie & Yates (2014)
- 11. if there is an inevitable danger coming towards you, move towards it. Fullan
- 13. Today’s Schedule Session 1 Brief iPad 101 Session 2 Communication to support participation & inclusion Session 3 “Reading” to obtain information, participate and collaborate
- 14. and the presenter said you can take notes
- 20. By Blake Patterson [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons create
- 21. consider collaborate create
- 22. Focus activity*
- 23. *• groups of four • one group member describes a ‘client’ (no real names) at the beginning of each focus activity • as a group, undertake the activity using the example shared
- 27. iPad Settings • General/Accessibility • General/Restrictions
- 28. Focus Activity: What are some examples of how you would use Settings to support a client/s.
- 30. FREE or LITE versions? Customisation Independence Intuitive Motivation Feedback Accessibility Multipurpose What makes a good app?
- 31. So many apps? • App store • Google app search • Spectronics blog and Online
- 32. So many apps? It all depends… on what you think the client needs!
- 34. Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) AAC Ferret http://bit.ly/aacferret
- 35. Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Sounding Board app
- 38. Barriers to participation & inclusion (& employment) • Learning new tasks and processes • Problem solving • Understanding others and expressing yourself • Understanding schedules • Appropriate planning and decision-making
- 39. Visual supports
- 40. Visual supports Things that we SEE to enhance the communication process
- 41. Types of visual supports • Schedules or routines • Timers • Social stories • Video modelling
- 42. Apps for schedules and routines FTVS HD Choiceworks Sonics Pics PixnTell
- 43. Apps for visual timers Bang Boom Buzzer iPad Clock app Timer+ Wait4it
- 44. Social stories Visual, video, photo stories created for specific learning of specific behaviours Originally developed by Carol Gray www.thegraycentre.org
- 45. Apps for social stories Sonics Pics Strip designer Puppet Pals Pictello Book Creator
- 46. Focus Activity: Use Sonic Pics to create a visual support for your client/s.
- 47. Models target skills Desirable behaviours are learned by watching a video & imitating
- 48. Videos of others Video self-monitoring Point of view modelling
- 49. Apps for video modelling Puppet Pals iMovie Aurasma QR Codes
- 51. Session 3: “reading” to obtain information, participate and collaborate
- 52. Text to speech iPad Settings: General/Accessibility/Vision / Speak selection
- 54. Text to speech read up to 500 wpm speak 150-170 wpm
- 55. Text to speech comprehension problems below 100 wpm words need to paced at 2 or 3 pre second
- 56. Comprehension & Vocabulary Support Apps: Readability Score Symbol Support Read&Write for iPad Google - images
- 58. Focus Activity: How much ‘text reading" has in your setting/program? How might you support the use of digitised text?
- 59. quality of thinking drops away quickly once working memory increases beyond four items
- 60. Cognitive Load Apps: tldr Reader Scan - QR Code and Barcode Reader See visual supports
- 61. QR Codes
- 62. QR Codes Contains data Contains data Contains data Contains no data QR Code Barcode
- 64. QR Code Readers Apps Scan - QR Code and Barcode Reader Qrafter Pro Available for any device!
- 65. Minimise Distraction Apps SafeShare TV Nicertube Resources Hide all the extras around the edge of a Youtube video with www.nicertube.com & http://safeshare.tv/ Reader Button in Safari via Speak Selection
- 68. In pairs ( 5 minutes each): 1.Demonstrate a new app/idea you have learnt 2.Explain on how you plan on using the app/idea
- 69. Find someone else: 1.Describe to them the app/idea you were told about
- 71. video is a tool to support instruction, not an instructional tool
- 72. Video Creation Apps Sonic Pics Movenote Explain Everything Web www.youtube.com/editor Video editing iMovie
- 74. eBooks Apps Book Creator Creative Book Builder Software iBooks Author via Macbook
- 75. Focus Activity: Create an ebook with Book Creator for use in your setting/program.
- 76. why? Q W E R T Y
- 77. Learners learn more when working in pairs when using technology
- 78. avoiding failure is a stronger motivation than obtaining a positive success or reward
- 79. iOS 8 Keyboards Read&Write for iPad Swype Keyboard Keedogo Lowercase Path Input SuperKeys
- 80. Word Prediction Apps WriteOnline ClaroSpeak - Australian Edition Co:Writer Universal
- 81. the future?
- 84. Give it a go! Start. Go. Begin.
- 87. What next? What are my next steps?
- 88. only 3% of adults have clear, written, specific, measurable, time-bounded goals, and by every statistic, they accomplish ten times as much as people with no goals at all Brian Tracy
- 89. Jason Gibson & Jason Caroll
- 90. What is one new possibility you will implement and how you will do this?
- 91. Set a reminder for 2 weeks time
- 92. institutions will try and preserve the problem to which they are the solution CathyDavidson(2011)
- 93. Thanks