Computer Supported Literacy Project:
Case Study Report
Summary
Age: 8 years
Gender: male
School Placement History: special
education classroom
Education Classification: other
health impaired
Type of Technology: talking
word procesor with symbol capability
Intervention Referral
Alan was referred to assess whether or
not he would benefit from technology that was being used in the classroom.
Other students in the class were using Intellitalk 2. Alan had good
keyboarding and mousing access skills.
Previous Intervention
Alan had previously used Intellipics at home
and in preschool. He had accessed stories that were pre-programmed
for him. Most of the stories required Alan to click anywhere on the
screen to change the page.
Assessment Summary
Literacy Needs: Alan needed
an independent activity that was academically relevant. He is at
a pre-literacy level.
Summary of Technology Assessment: The
technology that was assessed was limited to what was available in the classroom.
Intellitalk 2 is a program that the classroom teacher had obtained and
was using with some higher functioning students. Alan is able to
use the mouse to close windows on the computer so the assumption was made
that he would be able to access most any size target on the screen.
Summary of Intervention
Consultation with the classroom teacher revealed
that Alan was working on sequencing and concepts such and top to bottom
and left to right. To address these goals stories that Alan was familiar
with were set up in Intellitalk 2 that he could read. The stories
had single sentences programmed in picture buttons on the screen.
Alan could click on the button and read sentence by sentence. The
computer would read and highlight word by word to assist in visual tracking.
The other set-ups that were done focused on composition. Alan was
able to create novel sentences by clicking on different buttons.
The set-up had nouns pictured on one side of the screen and verbs on the
other. Alan could combine the icons and create sentences.
Outcome Updates
May 2001- The classroom has been
utilizing the program for about six months. Alan spends a portion
of every day independently working on reading and writing skills.
Other students in the classroom have also begun to use the program.
The teacher has created some more complex set-ups that target other IEP
goals.
Comments
Permission to share this information
is on file at Munroe-Meyer Institute of Genetics and Rehabilitation, Scottish
Rite Computer Supported Literacy Program.
Technology Intervention
Intellitalk II, Intellitools, Inc.
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