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enABLING Teams -- Team Sharing Idea #1 -- Show video clips of effective low tech strategies

Showing the Value of Low Tech Strategies

You can demonstrate the value of low tech methods 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

 

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.]

View video in Windows Media format [http://content.sphsc.washington.edu/public/image/545.wmv]
View video in Quick Time format [http://content.sphsc.washington.edu/public/image/470.mov]

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.

View video in Windows Media format [http://content.sphsc.washington.edu/public/image/642.wmv]
View video in Quick Time format [http://content.sphsc.washington.edu/public/image/643.mov]

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.

View video in Windows Media format [http://content.sphsc.washington.edu/public/image/644.wmv]
View video in Quick Time format [http://content.sphsc.washington.edu/public/image/645.mov]

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

AT/AAC Strategy :

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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.