Goodness Gracious, it's been a long time since I've written. I have gotten so involved in how much is going on in school that I haven't taken as much time as perhaps I should to document some of the things that we are learning. There has been a lot going on, especially with the student that we are trying to implement a technology with.
What we are trying to do is teach our student, who is non-verbal, to use a rocker switch to say yes and no. Although the teacher seemed thrilled about this idea, it is proving to be more difficult that we anticipated. Before she can use a switch to say "yes" and "no", she has to understand the concept. To begin we decided to try to observe if she gives any indication of preference between two objects, one that we thought would be desirable, and another that we assumed would not be as desirable and see if we could determine any mode that she has of communicating her preference. However, thus far it has been very difficult to determine what an indication of her preference would be.
For example, if you shake a pompom near her face, she gets excited and starts to giggle, and if you hold a pen up in front of her face she usually will just stare, however if you try to ask her which one she prefers and you hold them both up to her, there is very little indication of what she would choose. It is only when we choose to engage her in something that we assume that she'll like that she shows her approval, but in that it is still guess work and not an actual choice being shown by her.
Our goal was essentially to have her be able to demonstrate her choices, her understanding, etc. but it looks like we may need to step back and teach her that she can make choices. I believe that this is a totally new concept for her. Any ideas how we might help her do this?
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