Bright enlarged key board Voice to text with read back.
Station 6 Android accessibility talk back contrast, captions, magnification, colour inversion. Takes a great deal of fine motor skill. Difficult for visually impaired. Good for LD. App access.
Station 7
Wego AAC "Trevor switch scanning"
Able net Technology
Alex using eyebrow switch to play minecraft
Switch and Powerlink
Switch is the control selected and individualized to meet a students strength or best controlled motion.
Powerlink is the power "on / off" converter that switches are connected to. Once a device is turned on and set to perform a task ( ie a tape recorder to play music, blender etc )
hover and scan through
Not for visually impaired.
Must have digital control,
Switch scanning very difficult to differentiate letters.
I found some of the technologies very simplistic ( like switch etc) however I realized that, based upon where we had been 15 years ago, this moved seriously disabled students ahead by leaps and bounds, especially compared to where some students still are when in classrooms or homes that are not continuously seeking to challenge assumptions in order to make connections.
I am glad that I had taken this opportunity to reflect because I had been overwhelmed by the amount of technology that we had been asked to explore during that class. I remember very little, however I do remember trying to connect the head switch that I had scen in one of Tyler's videos with eye gaze and realized that whatever technology we use is not the end, We cannot hook up a switch and power box and say , " Good, there's that done.." and walk away. It has to be used with people that are willing to recognize it's potential in connecting the user to the natural and human environment.
My experience with Eye Gaze taught me how difficult these can be to master however I was a first time user and was not motivated by the opportunity to communicate in a new and previously unimaginable way. I had also not had the experience or felt the frustration of using a simple devise such as a switch when there was so much more that I wanted to communicate. A switch scanner is tedious but it is way better than simply turning a devise on and off when it is made available and it is a step that I can imagine must be learned to make eventual move to Eye gaze more effective.
I am reminded of the Prologue2go activity and my apparent moment of epiphany when I asked if our time would not be better spent teaching our student how to develop boards rather than creating boards for a specific task.
I was told that if the student was at that point, they would move beyond proloque2 go and on to another piece of technology, potentially something with spell to read back or predictive language. I understood at that point that Prologue2go was a link devise. I now realise that they are all link devises and that we should be forever developing and testing new technology to see how we can extend a persons potential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL8GMxRW_5Y
During another class we viewed the attached video. My assistive technology course has taught me how we have come to this point and that there is even more available. The potential opportunity for this girl is unimaginable. Even today in many boards she would not have the opportunity to communicate.
I found some of the technologies very simplistic ( like switch etc) however I realized that, based upon where we had been 15 years ago, this moved seriously disabled students ahead by leaps and bounds, especially compared to where some students still are when in classrooms or homes that are not continuously seeking to challenge assumptions in order to make connections.
I am glad that I had taken this opportunity to reflect because I had been overwhelmed by the amount of technology that we had been asked to explore during that class. I remember very little, however I do remember trying to connect the head switch that I had scen in one of Tyler's videos with eye gaze and realized that whatever technology we use is not the end, We cannot hook up a switch and power box and say , " Good, there's that done.." and walk away. It has to be used with people that are willing to recognize it's potential in connecting the user to the natural and human environment.
My experience with Eye Gaze taught me how difficult these can be to master however I was a first time user and was not motivated by the opportunity to communicate in a new and previously unimaginable way. I had also not had the experience or felt the frustration of using a simple devise such as a switch when there was so much more that I wanted to communicate. A switch scanner is tedious but it is way better than simply turning a devise on and off when it is made available and it is a step that I can imagine must be learned to make eventual move to Eye gaze more effective.
I am reminded of the Prologue2go activity and my apparent moment of epiphany when I asked if our time would not be better spent teaching our student how to develop boards rather than creating boards for a specific task.
I was told that if the student was at that point, they would move beyond proloque2 go and on to another piece of technology, potentially something with spell to read back or predictive language. I understood at that point that Prologue2go was a link devise. I now realise that they are all link devises and that we should be forever developing and testing new technology to see how we can extend a persons potential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL8GMxRW_5Y
During another class we viewed the attached video. My assistive technology course has taught me how we have come to this point and that there is even more available. The potential opportunity for this girl is unimaginable. Even today in many boards she would not have the opportunity to communicate.
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