July 8, 2010

Today we reviewed the basics of Proloquo2Go. We then broke out into our bigger IPP planning group to discuss the student, the design of the selection set, layout, communicative needs of the student in 4 different environments. From there, we broke into groups of two to work on a specific environment. Joanne and I worked on the Home environment. It was interesting to work in the big group and see the direction the planning team takes. I have never been part of a formal planning process, but have been in small informal planning and advocating. I enjoyed the small group work because it gave each of us time to work with and learn the technology as well as giving us a chance to plan. It is easier to plan with one other person rather than a group of people. It is such an interesting switch of the mind when planning because you have to think about what the student is capeable of, how the student would say things, what the outcome is, how you would want to build upon the selection sets in the future, as well as how the primary and secondary users are going to use the device. This has really changed my idea of communication in some ways because I think we often think about the primary user, but may not think about the secondary users. This means that we aren't really having communication, beacuse one of the communication partners does not have the language or know how to respond.