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This full-day additional course is for anyone
working with students who have visual challenges
and visual challenges in addition to physical
challenges that limits their ability to point to the
picture symbols. Attendance at days 1 and 2 of
this training, or previous attendance at a 2 or 3
day introductory PODD course is a prerequisite
for this course. Please provide date and location
of previous training information at registration.
How will the layout of the book need to be
different, while still maintaining the fundamentals
of PODD? Which individuals will benefit from
high contrast picture symbols? When is it
appropriate to combine visual and auditory
modalities? What are appropriate strategies for
teaching partner-assisted auditory plus visual
or auditory-only scanning? How do you teach
operational skills using parallel programming?
Participants will have hands-on opportunities to
practice these skills.
Participants will be able to:
• Describe Alternative Access methods for using
PODD books with children who have visual
challenges and visual plus physical challenges.
• Discuss the essential differences in layout and
design for access methods of auditory plus visual
and auditory only partner-assisted scanning
• Describe the characteristics of CVI in relation
to designing and implementing PODD
communication books
• Explain strategies for modeling alternative
visual/auditory presentation PODD books and
for teaching children and their communication
partners how to use them
• Describe the process of Parallel Programming and
explain how to teach language and operational
skills over time
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