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Augmentative/Alternative Communication Intervention
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Dr. Caroline Musselwhite & Julie Maro

Caroline Musselwhite, Ph.D. CCC/SLP
916 W. Castillo Drive
Litchfield Park, AZ 85340
carmussel@cox.net

Class Information

Website Creation Class Resources

AT Training - AlphaSmart, Inspiration, WYNN

Teacher Resouces

Tools for Transforming the Teaching of Students with Special Needs

D.E.S.K. = Designing Environments for Successful
Kids

D.E.S.K.

Design, Contributions and Ideas from:
Penny Reed, Jill Gierach, Paula Walser, Lana Sheets, Judi Cumley, Kelly Jo Lynch,
Mary Wirkus, Shelly Weingarten. Julie Maro

Designing Environments for Successful Kids (D.E.S.K.) is a concept that originated with members of the Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative staff. Their ideas eventually were transformed into a Resource Manual and a series of Make-it, Take-It workshops presented throughout Wisconsin.

Each D.E.S.K. workshop revolves around a different theme. The purpose of this page is to provide web resources corresponding to these themes.

D.E.S.K. Hooked on Fishing
Designed by: Paula Walser, Jill Gierach & Shelly Weingarten

This "Color Me StoryBook" fish book is available through PaperWork Literacy. It utilizes white figures on a black background making coloring experiences "successful" particularly for children who experience fine motor struggles.

FISH LINKS

Site Description

http://hometown.aol.com/iteach345/page2/index.htm Theme links for early childhood teachers

http://www.angelfire.com/ga/prespecial/page78.html Under the sea and summer sun

http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/ Activities for the book Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert

http://www.alphabet-soup.net/alpha/alphabite6.html Fish songs, art projects, math activities, science activities, games, Fish books

http://ericir.syr.edu/plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+lessons+lessons+4854+0+wAAA+Fish Phonics with Dr. Seuss - "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish"

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/class/Museums/Teacher_Guide/Science/Sea.Life.html Science lesson plans for animals, plants, and other things found on the beach and in the water.

http://watt.enc.org/cgi-bin/fmtPageTable.pl?encfile=enc012215 Fish FAQ from National Marine Fisheries Services

http://www.netscape.com/fishcam/ Fish cam

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/ Search the Lesson Plans database for more on fish!

Five Little Monsters

Based on the book Five Little Monsters
Available from Creative Teaching Press

Each participant received a copy of the Big Book version of Five Little Monsters. During the day-long workshop, participants made props and brainstormed extension activities.

Props included the following:
Tree:
A tree for the monster props to swing from. The tree was shape was cut out of foam core board (available at WalMart and other similar stores). The leaves portion was made by hot gluing green velcro sensitive material (available from EarlyChildhood.com) to the top of the tree. Tongue depressors were hot glued to the foam core to form the trunk. The "rope" was made from a piece of string cut from a mop head (cheaper than buying rope :)!). The tree was mounted to a magazine holder (purchased at WalMart for under $3.00) which could also be used to house a smaller version of the book as well as props and/or simple voice output systems. (Sophie the cat was not included :))

Gloves:
Velcro sensitive gloves were purchased through EarlyChildhood.com. The numbers were cut from "One-wrap" (EarlyChildhood.com) and could be used when counting the monsters. For children who were not yet counting, the scanned versions of the monsters could be used for matching and story participation activities (e.g. Which monster fell from the tree now?).

Five Little Monsters Story Extension Ideas

Workshop Participants brainstormed the following ideas:
Dramatic Play

Create a monster house and have children decide what should be in it

Family Tree

Seriate by size

Obstacle Course

Use Monster footprints

Art

Make monster feet stamps using foam Dr. Sholl's

Patterning Tails

Using unifix blocks

Gross Motor

Have a monster parade with children wearing monster masks

Snack

Moster punch

Monster mash

Graphing

Make a graph of children's favorite monsters from the book

Music

Monster Mash

Musical Monster feet

Monster BINGO game

Cooking

Mashed potato painting

Monster toast (make monster faces on toast)

Concepts

Hide monsters in/on/under etc.

Act out monster movements (e.g. swing, fall down, phone)

Math

counting

patterning

sorting

size sequencing

1 to 1 correspondence (monsters on glove to those in the book)

For Information on D.E.S.K. workshops in Wisconsin, contact your WATI consultant through wati.org
To Order the D.E.S.K. Resource Manual - Go to wati.org