Lessons to Print For Using AAC2go with the Go Talk Now App
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1. You say How s it going pause m having a great day If the student has an inappropriate response The student selects Bye as the first phrase in greeting someone The Communication Partner responds Bye well you have not even said Hello yet Thats silly Let s look at some ways you can say hello The Communication Partner shows the student several ways in which they can say hello In a direct learning activity Students selects an answer that is not quite right Model why it is not right For example Blue The grass is blue Let s look and see Hmm l Il give you a hint it is in this area show the student the area on the page pointing to the symbol area where the targeted answer is If the student does not appear to know what to do or does not want to respond then you say For example Look l Il take a turn and then you take a turn Model Model Model The more you model and use the App the more efficient you will become and the more communicative the student will become Use any opportunity to explore the App with the student If you are in the middle of any activity and the student is whining go to the something is wrong page DO NOT ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS Be proactive not reactive Lessons g no right and wrong answers when teaching kids how to communicate and use ame Be Responsive to the learner In Conversations If student has an appropriate response For e2. Child Do Selects another color You Say Okay lets find the ____ one You Do Continue selecting colors until finish the activity If you are using the pages with asisted scanning it is important to say all the choices first on the page or turn on auditory prompting Next present the choices and ask the child to tell you what he she would like using his or her Best Yes Wait for the student s yes response after presenting choices on the page go 6 If your child is participating in any type of genrative language activity such as using sentences starters using the key board core words or putting words together use a white board to write down what words they are putting together and or letters Show them what they have created and read it back to them Write it down albiclelfig Try this Explore the alphabet pages with the child You do You should be on the Home page and navigate to literacy pages and want to build a sentence or spelll Talk about what you are doing as you navigate am going to write your name Using the alphabet pages spell the childs name or find the first letter of his or her name The child s name out loud Mode how you would say the letters in your head by saying the letter Do this by saying the letter sound for K for the name Kerri and then selecting the approriate letter Write down the letter or letters on a white board as you model the spelling Okay it s your turn Do want
3. Lessons to Print For Using AAC2go with the Go Talk Now App Pati King DeBaun M S CCC SLP www creativecommunicating com 2014 Pati King DeBaun For trainings and more information about the Integrated Communication Model Contact pati creativecommunicating com z GENERAL USE AND SUGGESTIONS go For Using The AAC2go Pati King DeBaun M S CCC SLP Customization Several Pages will need to be customized for the child or student You will need to get into programming mode by swiping three fingers down Further details can be found in the actual user manual within the Go Talk Now App regarding adding graphics and text editing Also go to the attainment website for tutorials on editing buttons Use the page navigator to Find the following page fill in all pages even if you see duplicate page names as they navigate to different parts of the book You can use the jump to key on the bottom of the editing page and just type in My all pages beginning with my will appear those are the pages you will want to add images to My foods My drinks My family My friends My teachers My classmates m te things z GENERAL USE AND SUGGESTIONS go For Using The AAC2go Pati King DeBaun M S CCC SLP Customization Several Pages will need to be customized for the child or student You will need to get into programming mode by swiping three fingers down Further details can be found in the actual user manual within the Go Ta
4. You Say You Do You Say You Do Child Do You Say You Say You Do Child Do You Do You Say You Do Child Do You Say You Do You Say You Do Child Do You Do Say Hello to a Friend You should be on the CLAP Home page Look we are on the Home page that is where we begin Let s say hello to a freind Let s see Hi and Bye is in the I want to talk area Press want to talk Point to each button as you speak We have Quick Talk Hi anf Bye New people What think How feel etc We want Hi and Bye Here it is Point to Hi and Bye do not activate it If you want to say Hi to someone you can select this one try it Point to again do not activate and wait for child to respond or help him her Selects Hi and Bye Hello to the child or encourage a partner to say Hi Let s see here you can ask How it is going Point to the How is it going Selects and speaks How s it going If necessary push the button Encourage partner to respond and ask the child how they are doing Look here you can tell them if your having a good day or not so good Point to the choices available Communicates how he is doing If the child does not respond You can say l Il tell you how I m doing Select the appropriate button Do you want to try Point to the choices again Hopefully make a selection Note that if they do not make a selection just continue on do not push it Your models will be show him her how to use and th
5. editing Also go to the attainment website for tutorials on editing buttons Use the page navigator to Find the following page fill in all pages even if you see duplicate page names as they navigate to different parts of the book My foods My drinks My family My friends My teachers My classmates My Favorite things My songs z GENERAL USE AND SUGGESTIONS go For Using The AAC2go Pati King DeBaun M S CCC SLP Customization Several Pages will need to be customized for the child or student You will need to get into programming mode by swiping three fingers down Further details can be found in the actual user manual within the Go Talk Now App regarding adding graphics and text editing Also go to the attainment website for tutorials on editing buttons Use the page navigator to Find the following page fill in all pages even if you see duplicate page names as they navigate to different parts of the book My foods My drinks My family My friends My teachers My classmates My Favorite things My songs GENERAL USE AND SUGGESTIONS For Using The AAC2go Pati King DeBaun M S CCC SLP Customization Several Pages will need to be customized for the child or student You will need to get into programming mode by swiping three fingers down Further details can be found in the actual user manual within the Go Talk Now App regarding adding graphics and text editing Also go to the attainment website for tutoria
6. resource materials the creative communicating link on ths page Hints and Tips Note the navigational arrows are off becaswe the book is linked by pages and does not follow a sequental order You will find pleny of language for most children however you might want to add extra activities You will want to make sure you have a way to link it to the system so you can find it Duplicating pages lke the My Activities page and then simply adding your actrwities and pages to match is an easy way to get started When you edit existing pages keep the exact names so that all of the links work properly Keep the same number of buttons per page the same this will help with the childs motor memory and speed up the learning process Most importantly relax and enjoy communicating with your child go You do You Say You Say You Do You Say You Do You Do You Say You Say You Do You Say You Do Explore the Pages together You should be on the Home page We can use it to communicate about many things Let s look at some things that you can say Say all of the choices on the page first want to talk home talk etc Point to the choices as you say them Go back to I want to talk Let s see what we can say here Press I want to talk Wow look at the things we can say here Point to each button as you speak Ve have Quick talk Hi and Bye New People VVhat I think How feel Something is Wrong Hmm Wonder what What I think
7. says Point to What think do not select it Encourage the child to select it So if you want to tell me what you think about something you select this one Point to again do not activate and wait for child to arespond or help him her Child Do Selects What I think Push the button if necessary You Say You Do Great am going to tell you what think about thts Communication App Point to the buttons and say choices Select a message You Say Now you tell me what you thank Child Do Selects a message Encourage You Do You Say You Say You Do You Say Respond in a positive manner to what the students says Let s see what other things we can say Look here if you select the Back button it will take us back to some more things to talk about Push the back button Now you select something you want to talk about Follow the same directions above if you are using the pages with asisted scanning it i important to say all the choices first on the page or turn on auditory prompting Next present the choices and ask the child to tell you what he she would like using his or her Best Yes Waf for the students yes resporse after presenting choices on the page Lot s Play with Bubbles Youdo You should be on the Home page Point to and say all the choices You Say Say each choice out loud and then when you get the My Activities say that is the one we want You Say Let s see what is in My Activit
8. ey will do it when they are ready Continue to providing opprotunities for modeling the Hi conversation and others If you are using the pages with asisted scanning it is important to say all the choices first on the page or turn on auditory prompting Next present the choices and ask the child to tell you what he she would like using his or her Best Yes Wait for the student s yes response after presenting choices on the page Let s Color You do First you will want some crayon or markers and paper or coloring book 6 You Say want you to tell me a color and then ll draw on the page You Say First we have to find the page with colors on it You Say We need to go to the My Words area You Do Press My Words 6 You Say This is where all of our words are Words is where the colors are You Do Press words l You Say Look here we have pronouns he she Questions what who actions eat drink Descriptors big little emotions happy sad colors red blue You Say We want colors Here it is You Do Point to colors do not activate it You Say If you want to tell me a color you can select this one try it You Do Point to again do not activate and wait for child to respond or help him her Child Do Selects a color You Say Great Lets get the___ crayon You Say Up here over here down here etc Child Do Selects by pointing signaling etc You Do color using the color selected You Say Pick another color
9. ies You Say Look at the fun things we can do Point and name each activity You Say Look let s try out bubbles You Do Press bubbles You Do Press the Let s Play with bubbles button and You Say Thats what want to do play with bubbles You Do Hold up the bubbles You Say Ifyou want to me to blow some bubbles you select this one You Do Point to blow the bubble Do not activate wait for child to respond or help him her Child Do Selects blow the bubbles You Do Blow the bubbles You Do Wonder what we should do Do want to try Child Do Selects and speaks one of the phrases You Do Perform the action blow pop etc You Say Comment on the selection with excitement You Do Point to the choices to encourage participation You Say Hmmm What else Child Do Selects pop bubbles You Say Okay let s pop let s bubbles You Do Help the child pop the bubbles What if the Child selects something that is not quite nght Follow the child s lead and run with it For example he or she may select go back So you might so Oh you want to play with something else or we can go back to bubbles Pointing to bubbles on the page or we can do any of these activities See what he or she selects and explore the new page It is important that initially you respond to all communication attempts You can call out silly statements and say that s silly we just did that Let me show you what I would say and proceed to model the phrase or in
10. lk Now App regarding adding graphics and text editing Also go to the attainment website for tutorials on editing buttons Use the page navigator to Find the following page fill in all pages even if you see duplicate page names as they navigate to different parts of the book My foods My drinks My family My friends My teachers My classmates My Favorite things My songs z GENERAL USE AND SUGGESTIONS go For Using The AAC2go Pati King DeBaun M S CCC SLP Customization Several Pages will need to be customized for the child or student You will need to get into programming mode by swiping three fingers down Further details can be found in the actual user manual within the Go Talk Now App regarding adding graphics and text editing Also go to the attainment website for tutorials on editing buttons Use the page navigator to Find the following page fill in all pages even if you see duplicate page names as they navigate to different parts of the book My foods My drinks My family My friends My teachers My classmates My Favorite things My songs z GENERAL USE AND SUGGESTIONS go For Using The AAC2go Pati King DeBaun M S CCC SLP Customization Several Pages will need to be customized for the child or student You will need to get into programming mode by swiping three fingers down Further details can be found in the actual user manual within the Go Talk Now App regarding adding graphics and text
11. ls on editing buttons Use the page navigator to Find the following page fill in all pages even if you see duplicate page names as they navigate to different parts of the book My foods My drinks My family My friends My teachers My classmates My Favorite things My songs Using the book with students Make sure that you have gone through the lessons that are on the START Up page Lesson 1 Explore will help you with navigation At the end of the instructions have a those same lessons for you to print out Navigation Always start on the Home page The Green Home Button will take you back to the home start page The Red arrow will key will take you back to the last page The Green arrow will take you to additional vocabulary The return button on the left button of the page will take you back to the previous page The On the bottom of the App will give you some quick words yes no hi and bye The jump guy will quickly allow to jump to a page not recommended as you will always want to model for your students what you are doing Until the student is familiar with their choices on the pages you will need to model the choice before you ask them to respond See the lessons within the App to do this ACCESS Switches If you are using a single switch the switch sight should be highly consistent Consult an OT or SLP to help with this if you are not sure about switch access Highly consistent means Students can access
12. ong page O NOT ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS Be proactive not reactive i 7 P et yr ON SS go it s nice to meet you Thank you for purchasing AAC2g0 The Dynamic Communication System by Pati King DeSaun Let s make sure that your child starts using the iPad and gets off to a good start The lessons will give you tips om how you can get started using the AAC2g0 App with your child It is important that you also understand that ths s a Communication Frst System imediate interaction and engagement are expected Avoid telling the child to touch that point to or show me that is more like testing instead encourage the child to follow your models and simply talk with the child Do not be afraid to use the system this will be important for your child to see someone else using it successfully Always start on the Home page this page links to all areas in the book Your child might mot be able to mavigate at first but it will help hinvher to see the navigation in action Never go to a page randomly your child needs to see how to get to the pages even if you do mot think he she can do it overtime you will be surpreed what the children learn from your models While this is a simple communication system it has powerful tools to build important socal skills language and literacy skills These beginning lessons will get you and your child started on your way to communicating For further information and additional support and
13. ry it You Do Point to again do not activate and wait for child to respond or help himvher Child Do Selects Hi and Bye You Say Hello to the child or encourage a partner to say Hi You Say Let s see here you can ask How it is going You Do Point to the How is it going Child Do Selects and speaks How s it going If necessary push the button You Do Encourage partner to respond and ask the child how they are doing You Say Look here you can tell them if your having a good day or not so good You Do Point to the choices available Child Do Communicates how he is doing You Say If the child does not respond You can say IT tell you how I m doing You Do Select the appropriate button You Say Do you want to try You Do Point to the choices again Child Do Hopefully makes a selection Note that if they do not make a selection just continue on do not push it Your models will be show him her how to use and they will do it when they are ready You Do Continue to providing opprotunities for modeling the Hi conversation and others If you are using the pages with asisted scanning it is important to say all the choices first on the page or turn on auditory prompting Next present the choices and ask the child to tell you what he she would ike using his or her Best Yes Wait for the student s yes response after presenting choices on the page go You do You Say You Say You Say You Do You Do You Say
14. teraction and then push it toward the child to select Modeling how to interact and what to say in a given situation is going to be important If you are using the pages with asisted scanning it is important to say all the choices first on the page or turn on auditory prompting Next present the choices and ask the child to tell you what he she would ike using his or her Best Yes Wait for the student s yes response after presenting choices on the page go Let s Read a Book ou do You should be on the Start or Home page You Say Look we are on the Home page that is where we begin You Say Let s read a book You Say Book Reading is in the School Talk Area You Do Press School Talk You Do Point to each button as you speak You Say We have Classroom Talk Reading Books have some news Mealtime Arts and Crafts etc You Say We want Reading Books Here it is You Do Point to reading Books do not activate it You Say If you want to read a book you can select this one_ try it You Do Point to again do not activate and wait for child to respond or help him her Child Do Selects Let s read a book You Say Great have some books here If you want to pick a book look here this is what you can say You Do Point to the T ll pick button and pause Child Do Selects and speaks I ll pick the book If necessary push the button You Do Hold up the book selections for the child to pick from You Do Read the title and start
15. the switch consistently easily reliably The use of the switch does not compromise your understanding of their communication attempts Other switch options select the appropriate settings within settings Please note additional information is in the manual with the Go Talk Now App It may be easier for some students to turn turn auditory cues on this can also be turned on in the settings This will say and highlight the choices for the students Partner Assisted Scanning If you want to use this App for partner assisted scanning you can say the choices out loud or turn on the auditory cues and use with automatic scanning this will help keep timing consistent You will want to make adjustments to the scanning speed within settings Students should use their best yes response Acceptable responses will be a smile a yes head nodding whatever is easiest for the student to do Initially any response that is positive should be acceptable At first students may have multiple ways they signal yes Overtime one method of yes should be established such as smiling vocalizing lifting an arm etc When students use the selected method REINFORCE REINFORCE like the way you told me yes by smiling Dy There are no right and wrong answers when teaching kids how to communicate and use language Be Responsive to the learner In Conversations If student has an appropriate response For example the student selects How s it going
16. to read a few pages and then pause You Say If you want me to turn the page you can tell me Select this one You Do Point to Turn the page Child Do Selects turn the page If necessary push the button You Say Great job You told me turn the page You Do Turn the page and read the book Continue reading a few pages and pause VVait for the child to Child Do Selects Turn the page Note that you may need to remind the child to push the button by pointing to it You Do Continue to read to the end of the book Pausing periodically Repeating the turn the page routine If you are using the pages with asisted scanning it is important to say all the choices first on the page or turn on auditory prompting Next present the choices and ask the child to tell you what he she would like using his or her Best Yes Wait for the student s yes response after presenting choices on the page go Ea Say Hollo to a Friend Youdo You should be on the Home page You Say Look we are on the Home page that is where we begin You Say Let s say hello to a freind You Say Let s see Hi and Bye is in the want to talk area You Do Press want to talk You Do Point to each button as you speak You Say We have Quick Talk Hi anf Bye New people What I think Howlfeel etc You Say We want Hi and Bye Here it is You Do Point to Hi and Bye do not activate it You Say If you want to say Hi to someone you can select this one t
17. to try to write something Child selects letters Write down the letter or letters on a white board Atempt pronounce the letter combination or word the child wrote al al
18. xample the student selects How s it going You say How s it going pause m having a great day If the student has an inappropriate response The student selects Bye as the first phrase in greeting someone The Communication Partner responds Bye well you have not even said Hello yet Thats silly Let s look at some ways you can say hello The Communication Partner shows the student several ways in which they can say hello In a direct learning activity Students selects an answer that is not quite right Model why it is not right For example Blue The grass is blue Let s look and see Hmm l Il give you a hint it is in this area show the student the area on the page pointing to the symbol area where the targeted answer is If the student does not appear to know what to do or does not want to respond then you say For example Look l Il take a turn and then you take a turn Model Model Model The more you model and use the App the more efficient you will become and the more communicative the student will become Repetition With Variety Children need to understand to use their communication in a variety of different ways Doing the same thing the same way can be monotonous so chang how when and where you do things make it fun and different Use any opportunity to explore the App with the student If you are in the middle of any activity and the student is whining go to the something is wr
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