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enABLING
Teachers -- Activity #4 -- Demonstrating multimodal
communication through video New
Activity!
Encouraging a "Multi-Modality" Perspective
Suggestions for Educators:
You can demonstrate the importance of multiple
methods of communication through three approaches:
Option 1. Show Michael William's
powerful video clip
Option 2. Show Kristin Rytter's
high tech and low tech systems
Option 3. Show useful low tech strategies
Option 4. Show Social Networks
video about Adrienne
New!
1) Show Michael Williams’ video clip:
Michael eloquently describes how he uses his speech, his device,
a letter board, computer printout, email and a fax machine for different
types of communication in his daily life. [Please note: Michael prepared
his words ahead of time for this video and delivers his message one
sentence at a time for the camera.]
2) Show Kristin Rytter's high tech and low tech
systems:
In the first clip, Kristin is shown using her high tech system based
on Morse Code as she interviews a professional about AT services for
high school students.
In the second clip, Kristin is shown (briefly) using her non-technological
system of eyegaze codes. You'll see a series of eye movements, each
one standing for a different letter of the alphabet. She finds this
system less fatiguing than the high tech system when speaking to highly
familiar partners. You can imagine that the partner has to be carefully
trained in this system. Kristin does her own training of every new
assistant who works for her.
3) Show useful low tech AAC strategies:
Show video clips of strategies that are very useful even though they
are low tech. Here are some examples:
- Eyegaze to letters or single words
- Communication notebook
- Communication board
- Partner assisted scanning
To find these clips, go to the AT/AAC enABLES Search page: http://depts.washington.edu/enables/searching.htm
Find the section of the search page that looks like this
Click on the black triangle in the small box to the right
to open the drop down menu listing all the AAC strategies that are currently
available. Select the desired strategy, for example those shown in italics
in the examples above, then click on "Go".
All video clips that demonstrate that strategy will appear as thumbnails
on the next screen. You will usually see two versions: “.wmv”
for Windows Media Player clips and “.mov” for Quick Time/MacIntosh
clips. Click on the thumbnail once to show the video clip.
4) Show Adrienne using many modes
in Spanish and English: New!
Adrienne is a young woman who uses multiple methods of communication
in her bilingual environment. She uses a combination of speech, partner
assisted scanning and high technology to communicate in both English
and Spanish.
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