Ideas for encouraging a student to make a choice using two switches
Early years skill: | Speaking |
Early years typical range: | 8-20m |
P-scales/Nat. Curriculum skill: | English Speaking |
P-scales/Nat. Curriculum level: | P4 |
TAP skill: | Language Expression |
TAP level: | TAP24 |
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Activity/strategy name and materials required | How to do the activity | Key principles for doing the activity and comments |
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Items/activities the student may be interested in. Items/short activities the student is not interested in. |
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Don't use two things which are motivating for the student as you won't be able to tell whether they've succeeded in expressing a choice or not. |
Establishing the switches to use
Appropriate switches to use Typically you might start off with a couple of large recordable buttons (for example "Big Macs". You may have already established this with single switch work and established that they can make something happen with a single switch). |
You may need to work with an occupational therapist to establish what type of switch a student can use - particularly if they have complex physical difficulties. |
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Making choices
Pair of switches Motivating and un-motivating items/activities (see the activity "establishing motivators" above) |
If they don't press a switch you may need to:
Consistency of pressing Do they appear to be pressing one switch more than another, or do they appear to be choosing the switch randomly? Swapping the switches around from time to time will help you to know this. If they aren't consistent, you could try making the switches more different, for example:
You could also try:
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