Module: Communication Across the Day for Complex Learners Using AAC - Micro lesson: How Do We Learn to Communicate?
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Micro lesson: How Do We Learn to Communicate?
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- [00:00:00.000]how do we learn to communicate in typically develop developing kiddos children hear about
- [00:00:15.140]4 000 words per day 4 000 words per day for a year before they begin to start using some of
- [00:00:25.980]their very first words okay total immersion they are just being inundated with with speech
- [00:00:33.600]all around them so total immersion in their main mode of communication just like you and i that's
- [00:00:39.740]how we learned our spoken language and then a student has heard their first words approximately
- [00:00:46.140]10 000 times before saying them this knowing this stat knowing this day data it kind of
- [00:00:55.680]crushed them and they're like oh my god i'm so excited to hear this i'm so excited to hear this
- [00:00:55.960]my heart um when we hand the student a device and we say you have approximately one month to for us
- [00:01:04.980]to determine if this is going to work or not oh and then you think about how little time they
- [00:01:12.140]actually get to spend on the device maybe two times a week about 20 minutes oh you guys is
- [00:01:19.020]crushing me we know this data and we are trying to determine if a kiddo can use this mode of
- [00:01:25.700]communication in about 30 days so that's hard that's hard but we're going to get better at this
- [00:01:32.540]so we do need to consider total immersion absolute exposure learning opportunities
- [00:01:39.800]for our students in their main modes as well so it's on us right so how did you
- [00:01:47.120]learn spoken language how did you learn it in chat tell me how did you learn
- [00:01:55.440]spoken language by being spoken to by listening to it be being totally
- [00:02:04.760]immersed yep so spoken language modeled thousands and thousands of times per day
- [00:02:10.920]at least 4,000 words we are hearing each day right okay how about written text
- [00:02:17.620]then written text how did you learn did you have to I'm
- [00:02:25.180]dating myself we had blackboards we didn't have whiteboards and and we
- [00:02:30.560]didn't have little blackboards individually at our desk we had to walk
- [00:02:34.660]up and they were these big huge blackboards up on the wall and we used
- [00:02:38.680]this stuff called chalk so and we would draw draw draw and write and practice
- [00:02:46.140]but we practiced the print and then eventually we got to work on manuscript
- [00:02:53.200]but that wasn't until third or fourth grade
- [00:02:54.920]that you got to actually finally get to do your name in cursive right and
- [00:03:00.920]then you would practice a a a B B B over and over and over until we eventually
- [00:03:09.680]got really good at that written text so written text model and practice daily
- [00:03:15.460]over years and years right those strokes yes yes absolutely okay how about signs
- [00:03:23.540]and symbols
- [00:03:24.660]you guys were so good at that how did you know
- [00:03:28.620]every single one of those signs and symbols none of them had their names on
- [00:03:33.000]them or written out but you guys all knew them yes exposure to the
- [00:03:39.240]environment just consistency consistency consistency you guys hundreds of
- [00:03:45.300]millions of dollars are spent in advertising so that you guys get really
- [00:03:50.820]really good at being able to identify those labels, those signs, those symbols. So, but it's
- [00:03:59.470]just consistency, getting it out there in all of those ads, just time and time and time again.
- [00:04:05.670]Very good. And then they even make sure that their stores are laid out the same inside of
- [00:04:12.830]there. So signs and symbols, but most of the time they don't move on us. They want really
- [00:04:20.410]specific placement so that you can identify it. And then typed text. How did you guys learn how
- [00:04:27.850]to type? I actually typed on a typewriter. Yes. At school, typing class. Very cool. Oh,
- [00:04:39.370]somebody learned how to type in video games. Okay.
- [00:04:42.410]So, and then you sat there and your little fingers are on home row and you did A, A, A space,
- [00:04:50.210]A, A, A space, S, S, S space. Just practice redundancy over and over and over. And you guys
- [00:04:59.090]became wonderfully, I can't even tell you, it's like I hardly get the question out of my mouth
- [00:05:04.790]and you guys already have your answer typed in and you're hitting chat. So you guys are wonderfully
- [00:05:11.210]proficient at typing.
- [00:05:12.390]You're typed text as well. Okay. We know all of this. We know spoken takes spoken. Written
- [00:05:20.910]takes written. Sign takes experience and consistent exposure to sign. Typed took exposure
- [00:05:30.990]and practice in typed. How do you suppose we should start teaching AAC? How should we teach it?
- [00:05:40.150]Modeling.
- [00:05:42.210]Modeling, repetition, practice, practice, practice, creating those opportunities,
- [00:05:46.590]making it fun, utilizing what? The same mode, the same device, right? So if they are using sign,
- [00:05:59.730]we need to be using sign. If they are using a speech generated device, then we need to consider
- [00:06:06.630]that device or the light tech, the low tech version of that.
- [00:06:12.190]A static sheet. Okay. So I saw my most favorite phrase in here, which is model without expectation.
- [00:06:18.810]So thank you. Very good. I love it. So we have spoken and we, and the student learned spoken,
- [00:06:29.310]but you guys, we are good at teaching verbally spoken, right? We are really good at that,
- [00:06:36.710]but is that helping our students learn AAC?
- [00:06:41.810]No, not really. We need to be using AAC ourselves. Okay. We need to be using AAC and their peers need
- [00:06:52.030]to be using AAC. We've got to create a total immersive environment so that we can have happy
- [00:06:58.150]little learners that aren't confused and wondering what, what is this expectation? You're talking,
- [00:07:04.250]but you want me to push these buttons. So we need to speak AAC to teach AAC. So that's,
- [00:07:11.690]it's hard. It's, it's not easy. It's not our mother tongue. It's not the way that we have
- [00:07:17.550]learned, but we are going to get better and better at it because we're going to start to
- [00:07:22.610]model without expectation, just like they said.
- [00:07:26.150]Okay.
- [00:07:26.650]Thank you.
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