Kristin obtained a doctorate in developmental psychology to enhance
children’s learning, so they can reach their full potential.
Family Oriented:
Since she has lived with a physical and a speech disability for her
whole life, she gives families of people with disabilities a valuable
perspective, emotional support, guidance, and hope. Her new business,
called SAGE-WITHIN-US, offers families, educators, and therapists the
following services.
- Guidance that prepares children birth-5 to learn how to read and
write in school
- Recommend fun activities to promote language and literacy development
- Teach effective teaching strategies to use with children
- Help school age children become responsible learners
- Teach parental skills regarding children birth-5
- Work with adolescent parents on the above areas
- Promote acceptance of disabilities in a variety of situations
- Speak on a wide variety of topics regarding language development,
working with parents, self-advocacy, and self-determination.
If you want Kristin to provide one of these services to you or someone
else, you can contact her at rytterk@aol.com. Please, put “Kristin’s
Services” in the subject line of your e-mail.
Academia:
Kristin has also done public speaking as well as lecturing at community
colleges and universities. She writes her presentations on a MacBook
Pro with a word predictive program called Co:Writer
and a Morse code interface. She gives presentations through Power
Point with voice output.
Kristin defended her doctoral dissertation at the University
of Washington on November 16, 2006. Her dissertation study aimed
to improve the pre-literacy experiences of toddlers with motor and speech
impairments through a parental intervention.
Read/see
King5 TV's segment on Kristin's graduation
Click to see Kristin’s
résumé. She wishes to continue her research regarding
the pre-literacy experiences of children with disabilities. If you would
like to collaborate with her on such research, you can contact her at:
rytterk@aol.com
Kristin interacted with the study’s participants by spelling
words out with her eyes, and her personal assistant translated. Her
father and she developed her eye gaze system when she was ten years
of age. Here is a video clip of Kristin using it that system with a
highly familiar, and carefully trained, communication partner:
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While pursuing her doctorate at the University of Washington,
Kristin was a key consultant, writer and presenter throughout the life
of the Post-ITT
project. Here is a video clip of Kristin interviewing a local expert
in Assistive Technology on services provided to high school students.
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