Re: question about using whiteboards to prompt therapists

[Guest guest]

We have been using white boards mounted on our therapy room wall for many

months. We started out using 24 x 36 poster boards and soon found that to be

too small to adequately display the information. They were also inflexible

as the program changes. We then found a dry erase board material at Home

Depot called " Tile Board. " It comes in large 4 ft x 8 ft sheets which make

it very difficult to transport, but it is very inexpensive at about

$10/sheet. Tile board provides a large dry erase marker surface which is

easily cleaned with alcohol. We write almost all of our program on two 4 X 8

sheets which have been nailed directly to the wall in our therapy room,

behind our son. This technique has really improved the therapy speed which

we believe is very important. Hope this is helpful.

Christy

[Guest guest]

Listers,

We set up our boards pretty much as Rhonda described, though I desperately

need to redo them.

We bought four 3' x 4' dry erase boards at Office Max (came out

significantly cheaper than two 4' x 6' boards and used drywall screws to

mount them into the wall. We set up Grant's therapy in a corner of the room,

so the boards are mounted around the corner. Three of the boards were not

mounted horizontally, as they designed, but vertically.

Board one is devoted to tacting, manding, opposites, etc.

Board two is devoted to FFC ( you can get about 25 items w/ 4-5 carrier

phrases on a board) those we are working on are squared off in red.

Board three is for categories.

Board four is for general notes/reminders involving teaching techniques and

reinforcers. This is the one mounted as it's designed, horizontally.

One kind of funny thing -- while they should be at a height that makes it

easy for the therapist to glance up, keep them above the eye level of the

child. (Actually sit in the chair the therapist will use and have your spouse

or a therapist hold a piece of paper up with words on it approximating the

size you're writing on the board. If you mount too high, it hurts your neck,

too low and you can't see through the kid. We can't prove it, but we swear

Grant was cheating by twisting in his chair to read the boards. What raised

the possibility was when we were teaching the category " fruit. " Grant was

watching when she added the word " banana " to the list on the board BEFORE

she'd taught it to him. When she got to the table, she had not shown him the

card with which she was going to prompt him. She asked Grant to " name some

fruit " and he rattled off, " Apples, oranges, grapes, watermelon, BANANA. "

before she could prompt him. Mmmmmm....

Good luck,

Mark

[Guest guest]

> It's really hard to keep the whole team on the same page and up to speed.

> We really liked the idea of using a whiteboard on the wall behind to

> prompt us while we work. Is anyone else using this that could explain

> exactly how they are using it? We already have a board up but are not

using

> it efficiently. Any help wouldd be great!

, we have each program written on the board and each section blocked

off. We try to color code information (eg questions in blue, answers we are

looking for in green, new things in red, etc.) We are not real good with

that yet.

I am hoping someone else rings in here because we are not real good at this

yet.

Basically we have put up:

r phrases, so that the girls do not have to remember them all and they

will not unthinking use the same ones over and over again.

Echoics, so that the girls can look up quickly making sure we practice these

a lot.

RFFCs: right now we are working on 3 (cow, shirt, and train) but on the

board it only shows how to do a reversal. (We also have sentence strips we

are using right now as visual prompts, thus the reason for not needing them

listed on the board.)

We also have fine motor, gross motor, handwriting and coloring goals listed.

We have the names of things listed (that do not need direction -- like bike

riding and calendar) written so that the girls do not forget to do those.

They sometimes get so involved in just what materials they have beside them

they forget to do the other stuff we are working on.

Basically all the programs are listed with " target " questions and responses

we want from Zachary. ... and it is just used as a visual for the

therapists so they can move faster in the delivery of questions.

We try and update this as Zachary masters off things.

Actually I had to see a board set up in real life to understand what it

looked like. Maybe someone would be willing to write exactly what they have

on their boards, so we can get a better idea.

I know Lee uses index cards because they are doing so much

teaching in the environment and a big board would be hard to carry

Rhonda

[Guest guest]

Hello,

Can you tell me what size whiteboard you are using?

Thanks,

Judy

Re: [ ] question about using whiteboards to prompt therapists

> > It's really hard to keep the whole team on the same page and up to

speed.

> > We really liked the idea of using a whiteboard on the wall behind

to

> > prompt us while we work. Is anyone else using this that could explain

> > exactly how they are using it? We already have a board up but are not

> using

> > it efficiently. Any help wouldd be great!

>

> , we have each program written on the board and each section blocked

> off. We try to color code information (eg questions in blue, answers we

are

> looking for in green, new things in red, etc.) We are not real good with

> that yet.

>

> I am hoping someone else rings in here because we are not real good at

this

> yet.

>

> Basically we have put up:

> r phrases, so that the girls do not have to remember them all and

they

> will not unthinking use the same ones over and over again.

>

> Echoics, so that the girls can look up quickly making sure we practice

these

> a lot.

>

> RFFCs: right now we are working on 3 (cow, shirt, and train) but on the

> board it only shows how to do a reversal. (We also have sentence strips

we

> are using right now as visual prompts, thus the reason for not needing

them

> listed on the board.)

>

> We also have fine motor, gross motor, handwriting and coloring goals

listed.

> We have the names of things listed (that do not need direction -- like

bike

> riding and calendar) written so that the girls do not forget to do those.

> They sometimes get so involved in just what materials they have beside

them

> they forget to do the other stuff we are working on.

>

> Basically all the programs are listed with " target " questions and responses

> we want from Zachary. ... and it is just used as a visual for the

> therapists so they can move faster in the delivery of questions.

>

> We try and update this as Zachary masters off things.

>

> Actually I had to see a board set up in real life to understand what it

> looked like. Maybe someone would be willing to write exactly what they

have

> on their boards, so we can get a better idea.

>

> I know Lee uses index cards because they are doing so much

> teaching in the environment and a big board would be hard to carry

>

> Rhonda

>

>

> ---------------------------

[Guest guest]

About the size of the whiteboards:

Dr. McGreevy suggested that we go to Office Max and buy poster board and have

them laminate it. The poster board was under $1.00 and they charged $2.00 to

laminate each. We put double stick Velcro on the back and basically have 2

white posterboards up for things on acquisition and 2 yellow boards up for

mastered/maintenance items. So basically it was only about $10.00 total and

the Velcro makes them easy to take on and off the wall if you need to.

[Guest guest]

Rhonda

We are also trying to color code different items. I think part of the

problem is that we are working on so many things at the same time. But if

we only had 3 items, would get bored. Trying to keep up with him is

hard though. But I know this is a good problem to have so I'm hoping the

whiteboard will speed us up since we won't have to flip pages so much.

I have a pretty good understanding of each of these but could you give me an

example of what you write for each of these:

>Basically we have put up:

>r phrases, so that the girls do not have to remember them all >and

>they will not unthinking use the same ones over and over again.

>Echoics, so that the girls can look up quickly making sure we >practice

>these a lot.

>RFFCs: right now we are working on 3 (cow, shirt, and train) but on >the

>board it only shows how to do a reversal. (We also have >sentence strips

>we are using right now as visual prompts, thus the >reason for not needing

>them listed on the board.)

Thanks!

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[Guest guest]

It comes in large 4 ft x 8 ft sheets which make

>it very difficult to transport, but it is very inexpensive at about

>$10/sheet. Tile board provides a large dry erase marker surface which is

>easily cleaned with alcohol. We write almost all of our program on two 4

X 8

>sheets which have been nailed directly to the wall in our therapy room,

>behind our son. This technique has really improved the therapy speed which

>we believe is very important. Hope this is helpful.

>

>Christy

>

Christy,

Does this wallboard stuff fit in an ordinary car? Can one person transport

it, or do you need two people?

Jennie

[Guest guest]

> It comes in large 4 ft x 8 ft sheets which make

> >it very difficult to transport, but it is very inexpensive at about

> >$10/sheet> >

> Does this wallboard stuff fit in an ordinary car? Can one person transport

> it, or do you need two people?

Home Depot cut the sheet in half for me. Perfect to get it home. Just ask.

They will cut it any size you want it. Rhonda