Today was a fun, hands on day. We had the opportunity to develop a dynamic, communication board in Proloquo 2 Go for a fictional student. This is a lot more complicated then it looks. The planning that goes into developing the communication peice is immense. What the student may want or need to say in all the different environments they interact socially in is huge. Of course you start off with more generic messages to see how the student handles the AT and then you would add on. My group dealt with Sally and how she would communicate with her friends. We found a lot of crossover with some of the communication and how to categorize it with simple titles for the student to understand. it would be important to have similar categoreies in each environment for consistancy (all greetings and answer to greetings would be under HI/Bye) The biggest issue I found was with the needs and wants category, to have sentance starters that were generic enough that could be used with a variety of endings. At first I had the urge to just have one word answers and question (instead of saying I want water please, have the student just push water). This does not develop literacy skills of the student and other students at this age would not be using one word to ask a question.
Using the technology was very simple. I find the technology now is very visual which makes it easier to use.
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