Guest guest Posted May 8, 2001 Report Share Posted May 8, 2001 I thought it was you who hooked me up to Writing 2000. It is a program that Mayer- has co-opted from the British Co., Widget. It uses PEC to create sentences and thus helpresistant people assimilate reading through visual pictures. There are nouns, verbs, prepositions, pronouns, articles, adverbs, etc. Elie's speech person in Hershey translated hisfavorite book, Green Eggs and Ham into PEC for reading with the Writing 2000 program. Nowhe had never memorized the book, but with PEC he could read it with somehelp!! And hisretention is better. I have never seen the whole program, bu theteacher tells me there are coputer parts and verbal as well as visual parts. She ishavingtrouvble learning how touse it and I wanther comfortably trained. How do Iget her training into he IEP??? Sara _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2001 Report Share Posted May 9, 2001 Joan, are you referring to the writing with symbols 2000 program? If you are it is fab. I use it to create books for Angel to read. She understands the pics and I can change a book to meet her needs as I cut and paste the symbols over the original words. So I work to put in words she knows like family names and use pics I know she can sign or attempt to say. She really enjoys it. It is a Mayer- product I believe. At least it is in their catalogue. Do you want me to send you some sample books of Angel's for your conference session?? I could send you 6 or so for people to look through. I will also mail you my visual grocery cards. I think that one of the best things you can do is to teach parents to carry a pad of sticky notes and a pen, so that they can develop visual cues on the fly. Really works for us. stick drawings work so well. thanks for the info on Andy, and the course of events. kinda feels like thats likely where we are. do typical kids with ds plateau or regress then go forward then back again, etc. Or is the whole plateau thing a big myth. I remember reading that typical kids with ds don't lose skills. they keep them once they have them. that's not my kid. and do typical kids with ds need sooooooo much visual communication to get them from point A to point B without breaking down. IE. extensive use of pics and sign? Any info you can add would really help our team. thanks Cheryl writing 2000? > Hey Sara: > > I " m clueless! What's this? > TEll me more and I " ll dream up ways to train people. > > j > > -------------------------------------------------- > Checkout our homepage for information, bookmarks, and photos of our kids. Share favorite bookmarks, ideas, and other information by including them. Don't forget, messages are a permanent record of the archives for our list. > -------------------------------------------- > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 What do you think this group would say if you said what you told us in this note? For this to work, the *classroom teacher* has to be comfortably trained so she can use it quickly and effectively. How do we address that in the IEP? Will they help you or will they all fall off their chairs? j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 Great idea. Why not be direct??? This is a new concept. But perhaps at this school honesty migh work!! let you all know if I can actually tell them the kind of training needed and actually get it!! Did you know that PECS were developed in Delaware County at the special school system within theschool system that Pennsylvania has created?? Sara _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 In a message dated 5/10/01 8:58:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pastmidvale@... writes: > let you all know if I can actually tell them the kind of training needed and > actually get it!! Sara, It was written in Maddie's IEP to incorporate training for personnel on Floortime. I never pushed it because she is doing so darned well with the ABA (bigger and faster changes than with Floortime). But originally, when I was anticipating major transition issues, I intended on bringing in Maddie's SI private therapist and having her train the staff. Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 12, 2001 Report Share Posted May 12, 2001 Donna, I don't mean to be a pain, but what you wrote below looks interesting. So floor time can be pushed in a IEP? How is that? What is floor time? > > Sara, > It was written in Maddie's IEP to incorporate > training for personnel on > Floortime. I never pushed it because she is doing > so darned well with the > ABA (bigger and faster changes than with Floortime). > But originally, when I > was anticipating major transition issues, I intended > on bringing in Maddie's > SI private therapist and having her train the staff. > Donna > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Checkout our homepage for information, > bookmarks, and photos of our kids. Share favorite > bookmarks, ideas, and other information by including > them. Don't forget, messages are a permanent record > of the archives for our list. > > -------------------------------------------- > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2001 Report Share Posted May 14, 2001 In a message dated 5/12/01 4:24:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Strider3@... writes: > Donna, > > I don't mean to be a pain, but what you wrote > below looks interesting. So floor time can be pushed > in a IEP? How is that? What is floor time? > > > Hi , You're never a pain to ask questions dear!! :-) Floortime is a method of teaching devised by Dr. Stanley Greenspan. Essentially, the idea is that you *enter the child's world* and through mimicking and other tactics, slowly bring the child into your world. Maddie's sensory integration therapist (who continues to work with Greenspan and is a genius at it) used this method with Maddie, and it was how we were finally able to *reach* Maddie. You can go to the ds/aut web site and read the Floortime tips that Joan put up. Even though Maddie is currently being taught via ABA, I'm a HUGE floortime and Greenspan fan!! I believe that we never would have been able to implement ABA into Maddie's program if we hadn't done so much floortime first. And yes, you can get it written in the IEP under *specially designed instruction/staff training*. Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2001 Report Share Posted May 14, 2001 In a message dated 5/12/01 4:24:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Strider3@... writes: > Donna, > > I don't mean to be a pain, but what you wrote > below looks interesting. So floor time can be pushed > in a IEP? How is that? What is floor time? > > > Hi , You're never a pain to ask questions dear!! :-) Floortime is a method of teaching devised by Dr. Stanley Greenspan. Essentially, the idea is that you *enter the child's world* and through mimicking and other tactics, slowly bring the child into your world. Maddie's sensory integration therapist (who continues to work with Greenspan and is a genius at it) used this method with Maddie, and it was how we were finally able to *reach* Maddie. You can go to the ds/aut web site and read the Floortime tips that Joan put up. Even though Maddie is currently being taught via ABA, I'm a HUGE floortime and Greenspan fan!! I believe that we never would have been able to implement ABA into Maddie's program if we hadn't done so much floortime first. And yes, you can get it written in the IEP under *specially designed instruction/staff training*. Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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