iPads and Communication Apps_Making a Good Choice_Part 1.mp4

This is Part 1 of the "iPads and Communication Apps: Making a Good Choice" webinar archive.
People need to use augmentative/alternative technology (AAC) for a variety of reasons due to physical and/or cognitive disabilities. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy. This webinar covered some of the most common reasons people use AAC and what to look for in a communication app being selected to use on the iPad.

[Jane, laughing] Then I will know who I am.

Good morning, this is Karen Sheehan.

Welcome to the

iPads and Communication Apps:

making a good choice webinar.

and we have as our presenter today
Jane Berliss Vincent, who works for the

Center for Accessible Technology as an
AT specialist.

She has a master of arts in library
science degree from the University of

Michigan,

as well as her AT
certification. She has worked for the

Center for Accessible Technology for
thirteen years through a lot of changes

and

though a lot of

moves - now at

the Ed Roberts Campus building.

She provides consultations to libraries on
accessible technology. She provides

consultations to adults and does
evaluations to

adults who come into the office. She also
provides

reviews on website accessibility for
organizations and businesses,

She not only presents in our webinar
classroom but also at national conferences.

set as fee and a lady upcoming american

library association conference in new
orleans

and the defense by closing the gap and
then she publishes her writing

indifferent and professional

and newsletters and uh... publications
and it's breaking heat book

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you want to talk a little bit about
teaching often killer

avenue ten

just a quick mentioned that and the
accessible technology co coalition is a

program that was funded through a large
cranes

they came directly to the california
making technology fund and it is

stimulus monies that work your tax
dollars at work

and through the bride and um...

program

with uh... and teenage

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i to learn about blood of men to get
them out

unidiff communication ears

uh... and they can be useful from a few
probably already have some experience

with little a c

i sell disobedient uh... who have done
and other systems you may be coming to

this for the first time

armando at considerations for different
types of a c users

and learn about selecting i cared abt
sipple best-fit individual users

uh... the stab wound

some general criteria but based also on

customizing the fat one-on-one to the
individual

next slide please

if so what is a city

i'm a lot of different definitions basie
um... in some contacts

american sign language can be considered
alternatives

communication in some contacts

uh... way bigger beckoning with the
finger can be

considered alternative communication

for the purposes of today

uh... the way we're going to be defining
it as he was of electronic devices

on specifically the i can't handle
related products

as replacements or as a supplement to
spoken communication

and the way these work

is that the user

generally would select something on the
screen

and usually it would then be spoken
aloud for them

so that they don't need to make use of
their own voice

on they can have the device speak for
them

uh... although in some cases

it might simply be a prompting a dna_
using with fine the way they wanted and

speak

next slide please

socal benefits from

casey hughes

arm primarily people a physical problems
with speaking they have standard or

above average intelligence

but they're physically not able to speak

our people have cognitive problems using
language such as for example someone who

has aphasia

from a stroke or from another cause

um... a needs a level of prompting to be
able to use language

and of course people that

both physical and cognitive disabilities
that affect their ability to use

language

a communication situation

next slide please

so how does the ac work for people
with speech disabilities

generally

on the user an emitter a couple of
different ways that this can work

and you say at making hike but the point
want communicate

or they may fall etc most important

and they also select must set of
pictures that represents what they wish

to communicate and we'll see some
examples of that

uh... speech may then be generated word
by word sec maybe generated to as the

person is tightening

admitting way to generate the speech
after the person who's finished typing

the sentence

um... it made you both

uh...

so they have ever ready my options
depending on the situation

as to to the speed of the communication

and communication may occur in real time

or the user may store text for later
retrieval probably the most famous

eighty user on the planet at this point

if steven hawking allegedly burke is
coming up fast behind

and if you see the interview with
stephen hawking published in the new

york times that we could still go

you'll notice that egg he was given

bhai eight to ten questions ahead of
time

head for nine of the question

needs he uh...

typed in his response to head of time

it simply retrieved it during the actual
interview

for the final question he typed in his
response in real time

uh... quite slowly

and then pressed a button inherit speak
for him

so

depending on army

the context in which the person needs to
use the communication

they may be taking your time

already made

put something in ahead of time and
retrieve it

usually as many times as they wish

next slide please

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uh... i'm sorry

so that's that's primarily for people
with speech that studies who are evil to

recognize words uh... and and don't have
any cognitive problems with language

a few people with cognitive disabilities

uh... kumain for example not people to
recognize words when you see them

they're more likely to

wish to select a picture of symbol which
may or may not be accompanied by texting

uh... that expresses the word of the
concept they wish to communicate and in

the next slide will see a couple of
different ways

to use graphics

communicate

otherwise a c works similarly as a test
for people speak disabilities uh... they

had

generally would have the option of of
speaking in real time or

were tent restoring something

uh...

it's certainly if people without coming
to disabilities which wish to use a

picture based system

this for whatever reason there's
certainly nothing that would prevent

them from doing that

but that's generally something that's
that would be more used by somebody with

a cognitive disability

and if somebody has both cognitive and
speech disabilities

it's more likely that that they would be
using the picture of symbol base system

cell mix like it

so here it examples of ways to use
graphics as part of a a c so

to communicate the concept hamburger

any of these

types of graphics might show up on the
screen

so the graphic that's uh... on the far
left

here's a photo illustration obviously it
looks

very much like a hamburger

uh...

they probably just uh... a photo taken
at that time period i speak backers

something

on the image in the middle

is from are symbols series called board
maker

and it's a somewhat more stylized
representation of the hamburger

but it's still a little clearly to
anybody who looks at it

uh... is a hamburger

it's just a little more stylized

the symbol on me far-right is from a
series of symbols hopeless symbols

and what inside the system

international status symbols

uh...

that where you have a babysat and then
you combine them to create new words

sell for example did bliss symbol for a
hamburger

consists of actually three symbols

i'm reading from left to right i'd
believe these symbols are threatened

food

animal

so if you have a food animal on bread

that translates into a hamburger

if you have

those three images

and then uh...

uh... look uh... long line next to it

that means hopped up

uh... bread food animal lol

so

there's really no infinite number of
ways to keep a comfortable with the

symbols

israeli infinite number

of ways to put them together

uh... to be able to

express words

and with somebody using blissful most
might do would be to recognize the

symbol of the communication devices

press the symbol and that it would speak

hamburger

so somebody who wasn't familiar with the
symbols

didn't know what they meant

but still have no auditory way of
knowing what the person wants it

next slide please

his cell some selection considerations
for anyone

the first of all for anybody

what do they wanted me to communicate

either in school

i have a wanting to get out into the
community

do they need to speak to communicate
with family and friends

e in uh... hospital situation and simply
have

certain medical needs that they want to
communicate very urgently

liked uh...

what what are the priorities there

so that really helps you focus on

what do you get the jewels needs are

um...

second thing is to put it what you need
to communicate with

in what natural light

and their are some programs and there
are some waves

to support languages other than english

i'm certainly here in northern
california

we have a very large spanish-speaking
population very large chinese speaking

population

uh... there a number of me

needs uh... in those directions

so

we're going to see an example of

strategy for being able to communicate

in languages other than english

um... morsel

need to know

they they wanted to communicate are they
communicating with

other people who might be using the same
symbols

either communicating with medical
professionals

with family members

where they're communicating with us

fat consideration is how do they wanted
me to communicate

uh... face-to-face over the telephone to
a group

uh... we're not really talking about
iphone is here but there is one program

promo quota co

until the time that a little more in a
minute

that

we'll work over the phone

stuff somebody has difficulty with
speaking

and wants to be able to

uh... communicate with people over the
phone

is finding the related illnesses such as
these two speech

and not effective for them

they could potentially use a program
like below quoted go

to communicate directly over the phone
rather than having to hold the phone up

to a communication device and getting a
little equality of audio

on them

and where do they need to communicate

are they in the school situation where
they need to communicate

they want to communicate in a restaurant
so they can independently place the

order

idea performer

i'm one of the people who is has
borrowed one of our eye pads it's

actually performance artist

unwanted to explore using at uh... as

part of his performances

so you can simply stored his poll

he's in his speeches

and then be able to retrieve them on
demand

so that's a good question to ask as well

next slide please

so selection considerations to such a
way for people with speech disabilities

uh... years will be using the experts

are preferred tight letter by letter

or to select existing words

uh...

in most cases if the typing letter by
letter you know the if the mobile

devices releasing a revolution

in the mainstream news afford prediction
technology

we prediction has been around in the
assisted technology field for many many

years