Writing Success Today: Collaboration and Discussion with Assistive Movement and Technology Flexible Positions for All Hands-On Tech! BY BRIDGETTE NICHOLSON OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST Students ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT Supporting information at: Slide and Accessible Text Outline Handouts at ‘Old-fashioned survey’ www.powerofatech.info www.powerofatech.info/2019miota www.PowerOfATech.info www.powerofatech.info

Why is writing so important?

Importance of our approach and plan for teaching and supporting writing

● Confident ● Brave ● Participation ● Making ● Building ● Contributing www.PowerOfATech.info www.PowerOfATech.info https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ Performance Summary In the US, Percent of students who met or exceeded expectations for grade-level learning standards in DC in the 2017-18 school year. Over 2/3 of our students demonstrate significant challenges

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https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ Assistive Technology can, and DOES have significant, positive impact.

The research and the data shows it.

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BY BRIDGETTE NICHOLSON Slide and Accessible Text Outline OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST Handouts at ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT www.powerofatech.info/2019azota Supporting information at: www.powerofatech.info www.PowerOfATech.info www.powerofatech.info

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www.powerofatech.info www.powerofatech.info Click here to view this map live Click for All Students. here to Writing Success: view examples of programs WRITING PRODUCTION and strategies for each Handwriting https://www.powerofatech.info/database-writing of these writing methods Typing

Voice Recording Speech Recognition

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SPEECH

Intelligible Speech AAC device Emergent user Verbal skills

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ADD TALKING AND LISTENING (with tech.) FOR INDEPENDENCE AND INCREASED ACHIEVEMENT

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Speech INPUT Speech INPUT

www.PowerOfATech.info www.PowerOfATech.info ‘INDEPENDENT’ YET, SPEECH AND SPEECH AND HEARING HEARING USING (WITH TECH.) TECHNOLOGY ARE ARE MANY OF OUR THE MOST STUDENTS BEST UNDERUTILIZED ‘RELATIVE’ SKILLS IN LEARNING STRENGTHS!

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Dictating to adult: • Increases dependence • Reduces creativity • NOT independent thought and work! QBall throwable microphone

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From a young age kids love talking ALL kids of all cognitive and telling stories: and grade levels Intuitive Expansive

Confident Think about YOUR students Fun Skill areas Production of information Relative strengths with NO mechanics

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Speech IN / Talking / Voice Recording Who can or should use Voice Recording?

Students with: Voice only, no text • Intelligible and those with speech challenges A powerful means for students to produce independent • Many thoughts, ideas and information work! • Poor handwriting or typing Use of voice for writing and documenting thoughts, ideas, information • Poor spelling • Poor motivation for writing Dictating to an assistant / teacher / parent • Non verbal students using AAC devices Dictating to a computer / voice recorder / other technology • Any student who needs to brainstorm or quickly record information Independence and achievement vs. dependence and

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Using student's relative strength! Need strategies and carefully planned introduction and training For ALL verbal students AND nonverbal students using AAC devices, Using a microphone and voice recording regardless of cognitive level. is not automatic success Reduced mechanics, increased efficiency Can be highly successful with the right Quality of speech NOT important training

Quality of content increases OR can be negative/not as successful

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Stages of Training for Voice Recording

1. Voice play 2. Voice email and voice chatting Speech INPUT 3. Basic dictation into documents 4. Voice annotation 5. Mapping with voice 6. Stand-alone voice files 7. Dictating longer answers / papers 8. Hand-held recording 9. Audio editing 10. Podcasting

www.PowerOfATech.info www.PowerOfATech.info Speech-to-Text Technology SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS Greater Accuracy Lower Cost or Free Available on many platforms • Speech to Text Technology - massive improvement (hardware and software) • More potential for greater numbers of students now Speech Recognition, with the right approach and training, has great potential to improve students writing.

Exciting options with new speech integration into regular technology all around us!

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● More complex than voice recording: ○ Accuracy of dictation Speech TRAINING APPROACH and STEPS ○ Only for students with ‘adequate’ articulation Recognition for SPEECH RECOGNITION (SR) ○ ‘Adequate articulation’ hard to quantify cannot and Before speech recognition, start ○ More complex cognitive task should not be with voice recording, it’s (writing process, reading, editing) ‘plug-n-play’. a. motivating ● Overall more complex BUT great benefit for some Need planning b. easy students and training for c. conversational greatest d. a GREAT precursor for skill ● PLANNED AND STRUCTURED APPROACH TO success. development prior to SR TRAINING IS ESSENTIAL e. many other benefits…

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Student #1

3rd grade

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KEYBOARDING VOICE WRITING Student #1 Student #1 VOICE RECORDING - transcribed by adult after recording

I also play Minecraft on the computer. I've never, I've never...When I played it, a lot of times, every time when I played it, I didn't see the Minecraft Creeper, and I went, and I burned up my lame house, and I went into it one time and I got stuck in it. My house in Minecraft, I burned up. I burned it up because it was lame. Because it was a lame house. That's all's I remember that I play. …on the computer.

I play in the snow. I pretend that the snow and ice are gold. I pretend that they are gold. I also make snow angels. That's alls I do in the snow. I go down the…I do it in Royal Oak Park. I have one brother, I don’t have any sisters. Listen to I play the Wii. I play Wii Sports Resort. I also play Super Mario Galaxy II Wii. At first, I didn't play because at first I didn't really student’s want to play as a Star in Super Mario Wii. voice And, in Super Mario Galaxy, Wii's a star that Player 2 has to play as, is in a bubble all the time, and it can, and that Star can spin. And that car can, and that star can spin. writing Cause all the characters in Super Mario Wii get to spin, and in that, and that, in Super Mario Galaxy II Wii, you have to, the Player 2 has to play as a Star. Nope, it doesn't do, nope, it doesn't do anything special. I don't know if there are more fun things or not.

One time, he was recording his voice for a project. My brother. I might eventually have to do that for my project. Because he did that in school, so I probably will do that.

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The grat wall of China was bilt by the emper Cin. The wall was to protick the china pepar Student #2 From the Mogole invaters the best hous back army that ever existed. The grat Wall of china tuck bilyens of lives to belled and miluns war killed. 10th grade

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VOICE WRITING SPEECH Student #2 Student #2 RECOGNITION

(Student recorded this information with no support or prewriting strategies, transcribed by teacher after recording) Dictated using speech recognition (15 minutes after initial voice enrollment) with assistance for corrections: The Great Wall of China was built to protect the Chinese from the Mongol invasions during the Ching dynasty. The wall stretches from the Northeast The Great Wall of China. It was built in the Ching Dynasty. The wall was built to protect coast of China 2000 miles to the Southwest coast. The wall took billions of the Chinese people from the Mongol invaders. The Great Wall of China took billions of people to build but it cost over a million lives in deaths. The wall is built is a people to build and millions died. The Great Wall of China took 14 years to build. The Listen to single wall that covers the whole fences of China. There was originally a series Great Wall of China 2000 years later is falling apart because the wall is being neglected student’s voice of smaller walls going all over China. The wall, 2000 years later, is falling apart and of tourists. A Great Wall of China was built from the north east coast to the southwest writing because of erosion and neglection. The wall of China is an international coast stretching 2000 miles. There was originally a series of walls. The Great Wall of symbol onfoods and company symbols. The Mongols are the greatest China took 14 years to build the Mongol invaders were the greatest cavalry Army ever. horseback riders that ever existed. The wall is not build right on the border of China but in of the border at least on the modern border.

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12.3 words per minute 8th grade

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VOICE WRITING SPEECH Student #3 Student #3 RECOGNITION

Abraham was the 16th president. He was born in Kentucky. He loved to read. He had a mom and dad, a brother and sister and four kids 2 min 36 sec was the 16th president. He was born in Kentucky. He loved and a wife. When he was 9 years old his mom died. His dad got married to read. He had a mom, a dad, a wife, a brother, a sister and four kids. His when he was 10 years old. When his sister died it made him sad. His son 72.1wpm mom died when he was nine years old. His dad got remarried when he was 10 Edward Baker Lincoln died when he was only three years old. His son years old. His son Edward Baker Lincoln died when he was only three years 9 min 05 sec died when he was only 11 years old. His son Tad old. His son William Wallace Lincoln died when he was only 11 years old. His Listen to Lincoln died when he was only 18 years old. was son died when he was only 18th years old. Robert Todd Lincoln 20.6wpm his only son to grow up. Abraham Lincoln was the leader in the Civil student’s was his only kid to grow up. Abraham Lincoln was the leader in the civil war. War. He wrote the and the Emancipation voice He was president for only four years. He wrote the Gettysburg address and writing Proclamation. His height is 64. He was assassinated at Ford's theater by . After the Civil War he died the next day at the the emancipation proclamation. The north liked him being president but the Peterson house right across the street. He is buried in a cemetery called south hated him being president. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth Lincoln's tomb with his family in Springfield. Abraham Lincoln was at Ford's Theater after the Civil War. He died at Peterson house right across president for only four years. the street the next day. He is buried with his family in a cemetery called in Springfield.

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Student #4

10th grade

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TRACING PENCIL GRIP Student #4 Student #4

www.PowerOfATech.info www.PowerOfATech.info KEYBOARDING VOICE WRITING Student #4 Student #4 Tell me about this picture The lion the lion King is a movie I want to watch that lion King movie. Is it coming out? What can you tell me about the lion?" It roars! Is it coming out, the lion King movie Listen to what can you tell me about this lion?" student’s It roars! voice tell me about some other things about the lion writing it's got hair. It's got hair, what else? The lion, it's got hair, is got eyes, it's got ears, It’s got big teeth. I'm going to cover this picture now. What can you tell me about lions? They fight! Scar in the lion King movie. Is it coming out today?

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VOICE WRITING Student #4 EVALUATION, TRAINING,

What else can you tell me about lions? They eat bugs. They roar. DATA Evidence Based Practice What do they eat? They eat meat Data Driven Decisions where do lions live? On the big rock. Student Data The lion has a big rock. Do the males or the females normally do the hunting? The females. Is there anything else you can tell me about lions? Systems for evaluating writing: They sleep. The lion King movie. The big rock. 1. Variables 2. Production 3. Productivity 4. Content

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