Ready Made A.T Device

Product Description

The ready made A.T device that we have chosen is a felt story board. The scene of the board is a doctor’s office complete with a variety of objects related to a hospital. It includes four people: a doctor, nurse and two patients all with interchangeable parts. The pieces are easily attached and detached and quite colorful.

The Student

The student is a grade one student with ongoing health issues causing him to require monthly visits to the hospital. He has high anxiety about these visits and has difficulty understanding what is going to happen when he gets there. He enjoys listening to stories and works well with hands on activities and is a hands on learner.

Due to anxiety, he has great difficulty in connecting with the other students. His lack of social skills isolate him from the others. His classmates are always curious about what happens on these visits but he is unable to logically explain the sequence of events due to his limited vocabulary and anxiety in communicating with his peers.

How this product will assist the student

This product will be used as a material/ strategy in achieving particular goals on his individual program plan. The felt story board will be beneficial for the following reasons:

1. The colorful pieces are appealing and are very life like allowing for recognition of items that he would have or will see at the doctor’s office. He will be able to use the objects to have a visual representation of the objects to begin making the connections to the vocabulary.

2. It will be used to create social stories as a learning tool for topics that need to be covered around the hospital.

3. He will be able to create his own “stories” to create ideas of possible situations at the hospital.

4. He will be able to use the story board to create stories about things that happened while at the hospital. As he is telling these stories he can be encouraged to use new vocabulary related to the environment. These words can be used in the work lists used by all.

5. Expressive communication skills will be developed in creating stories with the board that can be shared with his peers.

6. This process will also increase social skills as it will be a way to have the student communicate with the others in a meaningful way. This will hopefully reduce the gap that exists between him and the other students because he is talking about something that all students are interested in hearing about.

7. Technology can be added to enhance the learning using this tool. Along with his peers (social) he could use the story board to create scenes that can be created and photographed to create a power point or story book or video can be used to create a movie clip.