All Together We Can » Closing the Gap http://www.alltogetherwecan.com AAC, AT, Families, Inclusion, Literacy, UDL, iOS, Mobile Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:36:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Bookshelves Please Handout http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/2008/10/20/bookshelves-please-handout/ http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/2008/10/20/bookshelves-please-handout/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:54:29 +0000 Samuel Sennott http://alltogether.wordpress.com/?p=685 by Samuel Sennott

Saturday’s workshop was outright terrific.  The participants excitement about the curriculum project, Bookshelves Please was tangible.  I look forward to sharing about the prototyping and more about the project.  For now, a few participants did not recieve the handout.  Here it is:  bookshelves-please-handout

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Check out this video made by my uncle, Richard Sennott, for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Closing the Gap 2008 Video Link

Closing the Gap 2008 Video Link

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]]> http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/2008/10/20/closing-the-gap-in-the-star-tribune/feed/ 0 Closing the Gap Article October/November 2008 http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/2008/10/05/closing-the-gap-article-octobernovember-2008/ http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/2008/10/05/closing-the-gap-article-octobernovember-2008/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:33:03 +0000 Samuel Sennott http://alltogether.wordpress.com/?p=647 by Samuel Sennott

Just wanted to share that my team from this summer and I had some work published in the Closing the Gap Newspaper turned magazine in the current issue, which is October/November 2008.  We are thrilled to be able to share some of the insight from our work focusing on users of AAC and writing.

A Writer, a Pencil, a Reason and a Teacher (Actually no pencil required)

By Samuel Sennott, Christina Cahill, Shelly Major, Nicole Nordal, Charity Smith-Engelin, Cassie Rubenstein and Joslyn Silverman

Preview:
After six intense weeks of Nova Southeastern University’s TLC Summer Writing Camp for users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), one of our team members said about the students, “They love writing now! Look at them, they just can’t wait to do it.” The six-week camp was designed with the goal of helping users of AAC, ages 8 to 12, become better writers. The primary intent of the camp was to develop and implement systems, curriculum and materials that would help the students grow in the writing process, both now and into their next school year. A secondary goal was to look for potential research questions to be studied related to users of AAC and the writing process.

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]]> http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/2008/10/05/closing-the-gap-article-octobernovember-2008/feed/ 0 SETT Framework Templates http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/2008/04/10/sett-framework-templates/ http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/2008/04/10/sett-framework-templates/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:17:07 +0000 Samuel Sennott http://alltogether.wordpress.com/?p=255 by Samuel Sennott

The SETT Framework, by Joy Zabala, a popular consideration framework in the field of assistive technology, a subset of special education, has made a significant impact since its inception in 1995. It has also made a significant impact on me personally as a practitioner. SETT stands for Student, Environment, Task(s), Tools and is meant to help in the assistive technology consideration process.

Here are some simple Templates that I have created and find especially useful to provide to teams helping gather information previous to an assistive technology evaluation.

Letter Size

the-sett-framework Template Letter Size

3 by 5 Card Size

3 by 5 Index Card Size: sett-notecard-1

3 by 5 Card Size (Four Cards)

sett-notecard-4-card

Direct Download of the SETT Framework Paper:

small apple with leaf 2002 Update of the SETT Framework

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