5. Transdisciplined Approach
• Team approach and all pulling together for the
common good.
• The teacher and families supports students to
use apps throughout their lives.
• The SLT and OT supports all language and
social skills
• The Physio supports movement and
scheduling.
6. Apps we use
• Communication
– Proloquo2Go
– TouchChat
• Scheduler
– Video Schedular
– First Then Video Schedule
7. Apps we use continued
• Story making (photos with text and voice
– Pictello
– TapSpeak Sequence
• Language / Speech Literacy
– Many available
8. More useful apps
• iPad Notes
• iPad alarm
• Recipe book
• After establishing the iPad as a tool we
introduce leisure apps but it is necessary to
establish the iPad is not for playing.
9. Places to find good apps
• DTSL –
• Spectronics
– Jane Farrall
• Caroline Musselwhite -
A couple of years ago I did a graduate diploma in Teaching People with Special Needs and I became very enthusiastic about using ipadsipods blogs emails and facebook as a learning tool and communication device.
Very early on as a department we identified that to use iPads we had to use them as a whole of life device and work with families. Since then we have worked on students having their own personal devicse using the logic that no one shares their mobile phone.
Initially we started off by using Proloquo2go and used core vocabulary to promote language for students who are non verbal. For students who can write we used Notes and got students to write their own News each day to take home and for homework they prepared their News to share with the class. Also we got students to take pictures to share at News. The results, greater participation in students sharing their news, more language development and a surprising one students developed a sense of ownership and a pride in their iPads
LawrenceOpportunity to practiceAuthentic interactionsTeam approach and working informed by the wider information available
Depend on needs – we have… Regular retailHigh protection e.g. Kracken/ Griffen (survivor) which cover the screen as well as back and sides of the caseiAdaptorLawrence to talk of the ways of looking at the whole and working through to solutions including VSM and taking the device as a content creation tool.Where to .. Simons blog spot coffeesmithy@blogspot.com as an interaction Yuko and Simon created.