Transcript ECT Day3

Goals for Workshop II
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To provide continuing guidance/assistance in the
teams’ efforts to develop communication
intervention.
To provide a model for evaluating communication
interventions that involve AAC techniques and
strategies.
To prepare for use of a technique for quantifying
the achievement of the objectives within the
activity-based objectives that teams created.
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ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION
TEACHING TRAINING INVOLVES:
•Arranging the Environment
•Selecting Communication Targets
•Responding to the Person’s Initiations
•Reinforcing the Person’s communicative attempts
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COMMUNICATION TARGETS
AND STRATEGIES
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Interesting materials &
Activities
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Sabotage
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Materials within View but Out
of Reach
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Something the Person Doesn’t
like
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Materials with which the Person
will need Assistance
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Absurd or Silly Situations
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Small or Inadequate Portions
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GUIDE FOR REVIEW OF ECT INTERVENTION
ACTIVITIES
TASK/ACTIVITY
Activity-based Objectives
TEACHING
ARRANGEMENTS
VOCABULARY/
MESSAGE
AAC DISPLAY
MESSAGE
SELECTION
STRATEGY
Material & Arrangements
Relation to Task
Physical Arrangement
(layout)
Mode of Selection
Instructional Format
ECT Cues & Prompts
Message Form (Mode)
Physical Support
Augmentation of Selection
Mode
Age-Appropriateness
Descriptive Feedback
Age Appropriateness of
Message Gloss
Relation to Task
(Arrangement)
Relation to Task
Curriculum
AAC Displays (for teaching)
Symbol Representation
Transport
Rate Enhancement
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The task itself must
provide a solid foundation
for the interaction that
occurs within it.
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Task/Activity
Increase
communicative
behaviors
Activity-Based
Critical vs.
Objectives
non-critical
sequences
Problemsolving
What
to do,
when
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Task/Activity
INSTRUCTIONAL FORMAT
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Task/Activity
AGE
APPROPRIATENESS
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Task/Activity
CURRICULUM
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Teaching Arrangements
MATERIALS
and
ARRANGEMENTS
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Teaching Arrangements
CUES
Will you
need a
brush or a
sponge?
What do
you need?
AND
PROMPTS
You need
to tell
me what
you ...
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Teaching Arrangements
DESCRIPTIVE
FEEDBACK
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Teaching Arrangements
TEACHING
DISPLAYS
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Vocabulary and Messages
Relation to Task
Message Form
Age Appropriateness
Symbol Representation
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AAC Displays
Physical Arrangement
and Layout
Physical Support
Relation to Task
Good
Contextual
Fit
Transportability
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Message Selections Strategy
 Mode
of selection
 Augmentation
 Relation
 Rate
of selection mode
to task
enhancement
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Observing Activities
WITH THE
“ECT
BEHAVIOR
CHECKLIST”
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Assignments
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Videotaping
ECT Behavior
Checklist graphs from
observations
ABO Data Record
Form
1999-00
1998
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