July 10

Assistive Tech

 

Exploring new apps

 

Engagement

Mental commitment

Attention to the task

Orientate the book (what is you cannot hold the book)

From long term memory you need to know to read from left to right

Retrieval ability

Filter out distractions

Filter out other thoughts (Luke)

Filter emotions (have food) – Ziggurat model

Visual / motor control (look at top left corner)

Phonetics (recognise /d/)

Blends (/dr/)

Working memory (keep track of d then dra)

Decode vs comprehension

Making connections

Making visuals of a word

Aware of spaces between words

Keeping track of the flow

Vocabulary understanding from long term memory and retrieval

Word attack strategies for unfamiliar words

Attention to task is consistent

Programs

LiPS

Seeing Stars

V&V

Make predictions to keep engagement

Proprioception (body and space awareness)

Higher level thinking (making connections to self, text, others)

Analysis

If cannot decode bring in AT

When use AT?

Grade Primary apps for phonics, phonemic awareness, phonological awareness

Middle school is way too late

Elem (learn to read, read to learn)

Critical at grade 3

Reading remediation is still important

Did they succeed in reading recovery then SLD and AT referral (LD diag will probably follow)

Compensatory technology (text-to-speech)

Scribe app

Boys and school (readiness)

Boys and reluctant readers at a young age (elem) vs reluctant readers in middle and high school

 

Reading is a learner process

Source (conversations with Neil’s Brain)- epilepsy and reading in terms of neural science.  Reading is not innate (not natural) so has a person every learned to read without being taught?

44 phonemes in English language e.g. /d/, /a/

Phonemes to combine phonemes to blends to phrases

Printed word units (morphographs)

How does the deaf learn to read? Use of visuals, cochlea implants,

Why not have phonemic awareness? Ear infections, brain connections

Rimes (-ance, -ent) – Seeing Stars

Sound and symbol relationship: we need to know the code

Chinese braille (sounds and tones)

http://www.braille.ch/pschin-e.htm

Brainstorms: billions of neurons talking to eachother in a small space (brain)

 

Visual processing (the eye)

Auditory processing (ear)

A stroke in a particular arts of the brain can result in a person not being able to read.

 

Reading and the Brain video

Reading never just happens

Really? http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201002/children-teach-themselves-read

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cNIRDCZANs

Dyslexia

Trying to read through making sense of all the phonemes and blends.

Do we learn to read through recognition (prior knowledge, long term memory of sight ad sound, working memory, matching prior to what is current on the paper). This is whole word recognition.

Hyper sensitize each sound within a word. Is this super long process helpful?

LiPS program and Seeing Stars helped to stimulate parts of the brain used to help with reading.

 

Reading remediation Apps

itunesu course development on reading

enrolled code: EH2PQKXE3 access using own ipad and needs to bre appraoved

speech with milo

finding nemo (interaction)

jigsaw puzzle

take photo of a word and students build puzzle

signed stories (not free) can make your own in book creator

read with sign language

phonics builder ($50)

story dice for creating stories

raz kids

need a license (see AVRSB) ? tumeblebooks

starfall

word bingo

bugs and buttons

webber photo cards (super-duper)

crack the book series (text with photos with reading levels)

sea shores to sea floors

digitize text you can make it malleable

grasshopper apps (get on email list to get free apps emailed to you)

bitsboard pro

eg sentence maker

creating a flash card: board – create a new board – name it – plus – happy -

apps for high school reluctant readers?

Read iris

Read aloud apps

Text to speech