IntelliTalk and IntelliPics Studio: Activities, Templates and “How to” Directions for 2 Switch and 2 Switch Step Scanning Access

28 page book describing the Stepping Stone Process (Burkhart 2004)

Would you like to try your hand at creating some activities with IntelliTalk 2 and IntelliPics Studio for your students who are switch users? This CD includes numerous ready-made activities to try with students as well as templates and directions for creating your own activities. This is a great way to learn some of the features of these two versatile programs.

Activities include: Finding a butterfly behind one of two boxes, Bugs on Me game, Hats to Kyle, controlling how the computer reads stories, combining letters with word endings, an animated alphabet book, choose and play activities, errorless story creation, counting activities, category books, Which one? activities, and more!

CD Includes Player to run Activities. For Customizing Activities: Purchasse Classroom Suite from IntelliTools.com

This CD is packed full of thematic activities related to the classic story of the Gingerbread Man.

Print out the colorful characters and mount them on sponges to make a 3 dimensional Storyboard. Velcro these characters to a carpet square for reenactment of the story. Print out a communication boards designed for telling the story, interacting with the Storyboard and playing games. Print and put together a full color, full length storybook with PCS symbols as well as two shorter storybooks with text adapted for emergent literacy. You will also be able to print and assemble a songbook for Aided Language Stimulation: "Munch, Munch" as well as an adapted game with complete directions for making an adapted spinner from a battery-powered fan. All files are in pdf format and can be opened and printed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. (Included)

Also included on this CD are delightful IntelliPics Studio Gingerbread Man activities, stories, and vocabulary play. Players for this software that allow it to be run on both Mac and Windows computers are included on the CD.

Co-planned sequenced social scripts offer an opportunity for the beginning communicator or struggling switch user to engage in "real" communication that is frequent, motivating, self-initiated, varied, ongoing with multiple turns, and with a range of partners, including peers. This 40 page book covers why, who, when, and how to create and use CO-planned sequenced scripts. Learn creative strategies that take advantage of the sequencing features in devices such as Step-By-Steps, Sequencers, and branching on sophisticated communication devices. The Mac/Win companion CD includes: More than 60 sample scripts; IntelliPics Joke-Telling activity; template activities for various software (DynaVox, Speaking Dynamically Pro); as well as directions and picture symbols to print and construct projects suggested in the book. Symbols to support scripts provided in Boardmaker and Acrobat Reader Formats.

This book provides a wealth of strategies and simple adaptations for using multiple forms of communication in the classroom. Chapters describe application strategies for individual communication modes of: sign language, speech, powered mobility, voice-output devices and picture symbols as well as ideas on how to integrate these modalities. One chapter discusses appropriate communication goals and creative methods for evaluating progress.