1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,840 Welcome to Unlimited Parenting, where we discuss having children with disabilities or and special 2 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,080 health care needs. 3 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:22,240 My name is Allison and today I am joined by my other host. 4 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:24,280 You're basically a host, right? 5 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:25,760 My partner in crime. 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:26,760 That's me. 7 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:33,600 And she has just recently done something very exciting and she is the key holder of all 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:40,120 of this knowledge and I'm going to make her share it with me and you and your friend Steve. 9 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:41,120 Sorry. 10 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,120 Yeah. 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:43,120 Anyway, okay. 12 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:47,960 You got to be really old to know that. 13 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,200 Well welcome back from iPad Boot Camp. 14 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:51,200 Thank you. 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:52,200 Which is what it was called, right? 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:53,200 iPad Boot Camp. 17 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:54,200 And it was through SESTA? 18 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:55,200 It was. 19 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,640 And what does SESTA stand for? 20 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:01,320 So SESTA is our state's special education training and technical assistance for a special 21 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,760 education LEA. 22 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:11,600 So our local education agencies can participate and have SESTA provide them special education 23 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,200 training and technical assistance. 24 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:14,520 So is that who was there? 25 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,560 It was a bunch of school staff, districts. 26 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:19,560 It was. 27 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,400 It was a really cool combination of people. 28 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,880 So it was paraprofessionals. 29 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:25,640 It was a lot of speech language pathologists. 30 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:26,640 Oh really? 31 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:27,640 Yeah. 32 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,120 Probably three or four speech language pathologists. 33 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:37,080 And then there were four or five special education teachers. 34 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:42,040 We had some individuals from VR, so vocational rehab that was there. 35 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:49,080 A couple people that were, that help students that have visual or hearing impairments. 36 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,680 So really like a whole bunch of different people and then some parents too. 37 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:53,680 Yeah, that's wild. 38 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,280 Because I had just assumed that it was teachers. 39 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,080 No, I didn't realize it was service providers. 40 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:01,080 Yes, it was. 41 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:02,080 It was a whole bunch of people. 42 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:03,400 Administrators, it was parents. 43 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,160 It was, and it was more than just one day, right? 44 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:07,160 It was. 45 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:08,160 It was two days. 46 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,840 And our first full day we focused on, I got there and I thought, oh, this isn't really 47 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:17,640 iPad bootcamp because we were making things, but the things that we were making. 48 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:25,920 So I should back up and I should say that this was hosted and facilitated by Therese 49 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:31,400 Wilcom and she is a PhD out of the New Hampshire. 50 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,520 She is our Janice Carson. 51 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:39,880 For those of us in Idaho who just love our AT project and Janice Carson is the executive 52 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:41,200 director of that. 53 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:46,060 So Therese is Janice in the state of New Hampshire. 54 00:02:46,060 --> 00:02:52,280 But she has also gone on to really make this her life's mission of supporting students, 55 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,160 but also supporting them with technology, but supporting them with the assistive technology 56 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,200 to support their assistive technology too. 57 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,040 Okay, because I was going to say, why did we source someone from New Hampshire? 58 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:03,040 Right? 59 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,040 Because. 60 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:05,040 But it's because she's so knowledgeable. 61 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:06,240 She's so knowledgeable. 62 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:12,880 So she is knowledgeable about not only technology, but how to make that technology accessible 63 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:13,880 for all. 64 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:18,600 So I'm talking about mounts on wheelchairs out of the most random things that you have 65 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:19,720 ever thought. 66 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:24,160 Or I have sitting in front of me and for those of you who are out in internet land and they 67 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:25,840 can't hear, I'm going to do the Velcro. 68 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,640 Oh, it's an ASMR podcast now. 69 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:30,040 It is, yes. 70 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:35,680 But we took, so I showed up on the first day and I was a little nervous because sitting 71 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:40,400 directly at my little tabletop were political signs. 72 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,640 And I'm like, where did I go? 73 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,400 I thought I entered the wrong room. 74 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:45,400 Right? 75 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,800 I thought I was at iPad bootcamp and then there were some scissors and there were some 76 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:49,800 Velcro. 77 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,240 So I started realizing that it was a therapy session. 78 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:54,800 You are going to destroy stuff. 79 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:55,800 Right? 80 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:02,400 And we spent the first whole day ripping apart these political signs, sticking Velcro on 81 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:10,000 them and making the coolest iPad supports, different stuff that I didn't ever think that 82 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 I even needed. 83 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 It's like a pop socket. 84 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 It's a pop socket. 85 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,320 In varying different styles of pop socket. 86 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:17,000 So we have a small one for a phone. 87 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,920 We have a larger one for an iPad and there is varying. 88 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:25,040 So there on the backs of them, you can see that there's like sticky grippy so that they 89 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,560 don't move on a table. 90 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,040 Oh, I never noticed that. 91 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:33,120 Super important for my kiddo because he is going to hit something, you know, and he needs 92 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:34,120 things. 93 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,520 He has a cortical visual impairment. 94 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,360 And so we need things to be at an angle for him to see that. 95 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:45,000 And these stands that we made out of these political signs allow us to be able to move 96 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:51,000 and do what angle Reese's iPad would be the most efficient for him in. 97 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:56,120 And it was all really made out of trash and treasures and not really expensive because 98 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:01,220 I bought iPad stands that are really, really expensive and they don't work. 99 00:05:01,220 --> 00:05:04,600 And Reese checks them across our family room. 100 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,440 And they're frisbee now. 101 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,480 It's a hundred dollar frisbee. 102 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:14,020 This was a free frisbee that he has not destroyed yet to this point. 103 00:05:14,020 --> 00:05:15,840 He loves to play with the Velcro. 104 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:16,960 It is it. 105 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,440 I don't know who this person was that was running. 106 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:26,640 So what you're saying is if you see me pulling a political vote for me signs while you're 107 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,240 driving to work, mind your business. 108 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:29,240 Mind your business. 109 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,400 Because I think he knows the technology. 110 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:36,360 So Ian, I have given a lot of these links and everything to Alison and she's going to 111 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,840 put in the notes because there is some really, really great. 112 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:44,800 These books can all be purchased on Amazon and they walk you through step by step of 113 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,000 other things that we made. 114 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,280 And the really great thing is she's provided videos because I'm a visual learner. 115 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:55,020 So I also want I want it listed out, but I want to see the steps that it took and I want 116 00:05:55,020 --> 00:05:56,720 to see it in action. 117 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:58,840 And so that's really what we did the whole first day. 118 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:06,000 We spent the first day making and hands on and we made mounts for chairs out of PVC pipe 119 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,440 and some moldable. 120 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,200 I didn't even know this stuff existed. 121 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:18,080 These moldable beads that you can heat up with water and you can glue them to PVC pipe. 122 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:23,400 And then a PVC pipe hooks right onto a wheelchair and you have a wheelchair mount and we all 123 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,320 and for thirty dollars. 124 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:30,860 Whereas you are going to spend hundreds of dollars on wheelchair mounts if you are purchasing 125 00:06:30,860 --> 00:06:34,880 them through your wheelchair manufacturer or as durable medical equipment. 126 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:41,960 So I got really excited the first day because I saw all the possibilities and I got like 127 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:43,880 some of those creative juices flowing. 128 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:48,760 And then it made me really excited to come back for day two and see what's the technology 129 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:54,240 that we can now use because now these students have it accessible to them, whether they are 130 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,840 a student that can only lay lay in bed. 131 00:06:56,840 --> 00:07:02,240 Now we can have she showed us how to make a mount for an iPad that can go directly above 132 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,200 the student and support the student while they are laying in bed. 133 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,080 So a lot of different options and a lot of different. 134 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:09,080 We made things. 135 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,080 It was kind of cool. 136 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:11,080 It was an arts and craft hour. 137 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,440 It really was. 138 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:20,640 I think it's a good demonstration of low versus medium versus high tech AT because when I 139 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:26,400 think of assistive technology the very first thing I think of is AAC. 140 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:31,120 Like Proloquo to Go is immediately the first thing I think of when I think of AAC. 141 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,160 I'm not thinking of all the other ways that it's used. 142 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,440 Like a communication board at the park is assistive technology. 143 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,960 A graphic organizer is assistive technology. 144 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,240 None of that stuff ever crosses my mind. 145 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,280 None of these little phone stands. 146 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,280 No. 147 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,960 Or I know it never would have crossed your mind. 148 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,680 No I would have never thought of any of this. 149 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,040 And that's why on day one I went oh I brought my iPad. 150 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,640 Where when are we going to start? 151 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,720 You told me to bring my iPad. 152 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,400 And I had to rip that out of my kid's hand and take it. 153 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,880 So he was not happy. 154 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:11,080 So the second day we really spent a lot of time diving into different apps for things 155 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:12,080 like communication. 156 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,700 We spent a little bit of time on that. 157 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:16,240 But also visual schedule apps. 158 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,000 Some fine motor gross motor. 159 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,480 And so I thought maybe we could even talk about some of those. 160 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,440 Yeah because one of them on here. 161 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:24,840 I was listening to you talk. 162 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:25,840 I really was. 163 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,480 But I was laughing and you gave me a weird look and it was because I had to remember 164 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:30,960 the milk. 165 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:31,960 Yeah. 166 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:36,800 Well you're going to laugh because that is an app that we have actually started using 167 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,000 in my home after I went to this. 168 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,520 So I'll start out and I'll start out with kind of what a lot of people think of when 169 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,880 they think of assistive technology which is exactly what you just said in the there are 170 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,240 those communication and speech apps. 171 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:55,280 And I would say we did not spend a ton of time on this because as a speech language 172 00:08:55,280 --> 00:09:01,640 pathologist and I'm not one but a speech language pathologist is going to need to facilitate 173 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:07,160 and help you as a family really figure out what the right need is for your kiddo. 174 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,000 If they need an augmentative communication app. 175 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:16,180 I know my kiddo uses one and we spent years and years and years with our SLP really just 176 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:19,160 trying to figure out what the right right. 177 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:20,440 And there's no right or wrong answer. 178 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,800 It's just kind of pick one stick with it. 179 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,400 And you know go pray for the best. 180 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:26,400 Exactly. 181 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:27,800 And so we we chose proloquo. 182 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:29,280 That's what we've always used. 183 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,560 That's where that's what we do. 184 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:36,240 There are several other ones and we did go into a little bit of this at iPad boot camp 185 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,200 and just kind of touched on. 186 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,000 They're expensive but these are language and these are robust language systems that can 187 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,080 grow with students. 188 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:50,040 And so some of the most popular ones on there obviously proloquo is really really popular. 189 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:54,960 I like it because it uses those symbols that my son has always used. 190 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,160 He's really he recognizes them. 191 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,400 But it's also really easy to modify add on the fly. 192 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:08,900 I can add buttons as we need them and it allows us to just kind of be able to add to his communication 193 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:09,900 as he needs it. 194 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:13,440 I want to say any of these other ones don't ask a question. 195 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:20,760 As someone whose kids don't use AAC devices when we talk about them being more universal 196 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:22,640 in terms of symbols. 197 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:28,200 Does that mean that you know the crosswalk symbol looks the same as the ones just at 198 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:29,640 a normal crosswalk. 199 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,480 So everything is the same. 200 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:36,320 So you can get that generalization that they see it on their app or their talker and then 201 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:41,040 they see it IRL in real life. 202 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:46,560 So some of them will use the boardmaker symbols that we see and are very familiar with. 203 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:49,600 Those are those symbols probably. 204 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:54,240 There are some I think lamp is one that uses their own symbols and so it would just be 205 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,960 for a student that recognizes those symbols stick with lamp for life. 206 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,720 Stick with what that student is recognizing I would say. 207 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,080 But again I'm not an SLP. 208 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:08,240 I just no no no have played one in real life for 14 years. 209 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:13,200 Oh yeah you are the expert in your child. 210 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,560 So I don't want to spend tons of time on communication apps but there's some really cool ones out 211 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:21,480 there and some cool ones that can be really proloquial can go on a phone. 212 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:22,480 You know it can be really. 213 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:27,480 That is what and you know what it shouldn't be wild to me right because it should be universal 214 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,200 you should be able to use it everywhere but it just is wild to me. 215 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,640 It is but how like how transportable is that right. 216 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,240 You know that's pretty cool. 217 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,360 It's just like a translator device you know what exact foreign exchange students come 218 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,400 and they have a device and they can take it anywhere with them. 219 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:44,400 Exactly. 220 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:45,400 Yeah so that's that. 221 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:51,400 Anyways and then we spent a lot of time on organization and time management and we spent 222 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:56,800 a lot of time actually just in our iPads and our iPhones working through the shortcuts 223 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,540 that Apple offers. 224 00:11:58,540 --> 00:12:05,000 And there are so many cool things that you can do within just iOS using those shortcuts. 225 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:12,400 For example you know if you're using the smart light bulbs you can set it like in your house 226 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:13,400 in your home Amazon. 227 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:14,400 Yes yes. 228 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:19,920 So if you're using a smart light bulb and you can set that up with your phone to turn 229 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:24,280 it on when you walk into a room with you know the so there are some and I would never think 230 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:25,280 of that. 231 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,600 No I would just but but we are people that can flip a light switch on as we walk. 232 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:36,920 But now it reminds me of the you know the alarm clock that I use that has changed my 233 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:37,920 life. 234 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:38,920 I know. 235 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:40,560 That's assistive technology isn't it. 236 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:41,560 Absolutely. 237 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:42,760 Okay now I have to explain the clock. 238 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,240 Okay so I got a I have a really hard time waking up in the morning so I have a I've 239 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:48,240 tried alarm clocks. 240 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:55,680 I actually tried one of the alarm clocks that will it's got a pad that goes under your bed 241 00:12:55,680 --> 00:13:01,320 sheet and it will vibrate your bed in case you were you know you were deaf or blind and 242 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:02,680 you you needed that. 243 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:07,040 It didn't really work for me but there's a clock. 244 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:08,080 It looks like a toy. 245 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,420 It's on wheels and it literally rolls away from you. 246 00:13:12,420 --> 00:13:16,960 If you have seen it before and you wondered who would ever buy that it's me. 247 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:21,560 Ladies and gentlemen it rolls away it rolls under your bed it rolls down the stairs and 248 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:23,680 it makes you get up and chase after it. 249 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:26,800 Down the stairs it rolled downstairs this morning. 250 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,040 I had to walk all the way down the stairs to get it. 251 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:34,080 But you know what it got my booty out of bed and I made a coffee and I walked back upstairs. 252 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:35,760 I was in the best mood. 253 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:41,560 I was like zippity doo dah because it works and it gets my butt out of bed but that counts 254 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:42,560 right. 255 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:43,880 That is assistive technology. 256 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:46,160 We didn't make it but I totally count. 257 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,160 I just need to broaden my idea. 258 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,600 Okay anyway sorry no organization and time management. 259 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,960 But no I think that is a really good forte or what do you call it segue. 260 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:56,960 Yes segue. 261 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:57,960 It is my forte. 262 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,520 Waking up in the morning is not my forte though. 263 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:06,080 So some apps that are really that we talked about for organization and time management 264 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:12,520 there's a Choiceworks app that is a really good app to help students that really struggle 265 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,280 with some executive functioning. 266 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:21,360 Choiceworks comes with Choiceworks calendar and it kind of pushes them all in together 267 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,360 and it allows students to prioritize. 268 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,160 It allows students to see what's coming up next. 269 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,900 But then you can input in some rewards and incentives into this as well. 270 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:35,900 So it can you can see that light at the end of the tunnel. 271 00:14:35,900 --> 00:14:39,280 If I do this and then I get to you need a dopamine hit. 272 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:40,760 Yeah yeah. 273 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:47,620 So I use I use a visual daily schedule with my son and that's the second and it's number 274 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:49,300 six on our. 275 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:54,480 And it is fifty dollars a year but it allows us to kind of do that first then in real life 276 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,000 and he can see it. 277 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,240 It utilizes the same symbols as his proloquo. 278 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,900 So then we have that generalization right. 279 00:15:01,900 --> 00:15:05,160 So this is on his iPad. 280 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:06,240 It's not okay. 281 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,440 So it's separate and it kind of it's our first then. 282 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,040 So first we get up then we wash our face. 283 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:17,400 So our first you know first we put our shoes on and then we get our backpack or you know 284 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,880 so it follows those first then first then and it's on his tablet which he already uses 285 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:22,960 to communicate. 286 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,760 So it's all just right there. 287 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,160 Yes well it's on a separate tablet. 288 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:31,240 So his tablet for communication we only only only only only use it for communication. 289 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:32,240 Okay. 290 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:33,240 Nothing else that goes on that. 291 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:39,560 So all of our social stories and our visual timers any of those kind of things go on it 292 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:41,240 on a second iPad. 293 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,600 Okay does it carry them both around with him. 294 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:44,680 Yeah okay. 295 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:45,680 He doesn't like to carry his time. 296 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,080 I'm sorry I'm asking a lot about your own personal side. 297 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:50,080 Okay. 298 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,040 This is supposed to be very broad but now I'm really curious. 299 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:58,240 I think for a lot of users that use an AAC device it comes very some people carry it 300 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,200 around some people wear it on them. 301 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:01,280 Okay yeah yeah. 302 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,520 So these are good questions for you're someone that doesn't. 303 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:05,520 Yes I know. 304 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,440 There is no AAC device. 305 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:15,240 I mean obviously the main person who uses this is you. 306 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:18,160 But then we're going to get to the remember the milk app. 307 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:23,240 And this is an app that I learned about at the iPad boot camp and I went this is an app 308 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:28,880 that my husband needs not my son who uses an AAC device. 309 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:29,880 Your husband and your co-worker. 310 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:30,880 Yeah. 311 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:31,880 We just download this app. 312 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:37,440 But this was something and so this is something that we have downloaded together and we it 313 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:43,920 can be synced up and so it can be used to really organize homework or you know sports 314 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,400 schedules or something like that. 315 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:51,320 But we're using it from like a household management kind of standpoint. 316 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:53,520 Like we need milk and we need butter. 317 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:55,520 People should know right you have four kids. 318 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,200 You're not just Europe. 319 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,680 Europe fast paced moving everyone's going in different directions. 320 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:01,680 Yeah. 321 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:08,560 And that is that kind of like maybe this isn't popping up in your for you page. 322 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,640 Those big those big calendars right. 323 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:13,640 And they look like a frame portrait. 324 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:14,640 Yeah. 325 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:16,240 And people are checking off their tasks and stuff. 326 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,960 Is this similar. 327 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:19,040 It is. 328 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:20,040 I want one of those. 329 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:21,040 I want one of those. 330 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:22,040 So bad. 331 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,160 Those are absolutely popping up on my for you page. 332 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,000 I just don't think I think I would use that. 333 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:33,160 I don't think there would be the shared use that did they actually that is such a good 334 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,000 thing that I really wanted to ask you about. 335 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:42,280 Did they talk about how to get buy in from your from your student from your child from 336 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,360 because you know when you want to try something new kids are like no thank you. 337 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:48,880 I prefer the way we have always done it. 338 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:50,360 Yes. 339 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:53,400 So well some not necessarily. 340 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:59,320 But I guess some of the buy in would come from a lot of kids are motivated by technology. 341 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:05,280 So for example some of the some of the educational professionals that were there some of the 342 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:10,080 teachers that were there said oh we are doing it this way. 343 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,080 That's low tech. 344 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,080 I could see this being very motivating from a high tech standpoint. 345 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:20,000 So some of the visual schedules some of the visual timers they're doing those very low 346 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000 tech right now. 347 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:26,760 They're doing them with Velcro and yeah on the board a board right or a timer. 348 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:31,320 So they are seeing this as maybe it would be motivating because students are very motivated 349 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,240 by technology and apps. 350 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,640 So we didn't necessarily talk about how to get the buy in. 351 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:37,640 OK. 352 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:43,200 But it's very you can tell it's a conversation that people are having like like you mentioned 353 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:44,760 the low tech isn't working. 354 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:45,760 So maybe we move on. 355 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:46,760 We move to high tech. 356 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:47,760 Yeah. 357 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,360 I also think well no I think that was a really good question because I also think that some 358 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:58,220 of the supports that we learned like some of the stand some of how to make the technology 359 00:18:58,220 --> 00:19:03,520 more accessible for students would also then help the students and be more motivating. 360 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:04,520 Right. 361 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:05,520 Yeah. 362 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,800 So that was like the scratching the surface of the things that we learned. 363 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:15,600 When I say like we learned how to make a light box for a student that that's maybe you guys 364 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,400 were building Kiwi co-kit. 365 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:19,400 We were. 366 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:20,400 Yes. 367 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,400 I mean there were yes scissors. 368 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:23,400 That's insane. 369 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,520 Sawing like we were building. 370 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,160 We were you were living your best life. 371 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:28,160 That's your thing. 372 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:29,160 It really was. 373 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:30,160 It was my favorite. 374 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,160 If there had been a few farm animals around there I'd have been really happy. 375 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,840 I mean I was like oh my gosh hold on I need to go see the chicken. 376 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:37,840 Right. 377 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:42,240 But so no there wasn't an exact talk about how to make it motivating but I think all 378 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:47,520 of the things that we were doing would have directly related and made students warm. 379 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:48,880 If that makes sense. 380 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:49,880 Yeah no it does. 381 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:50,880 I know what you're saying. 382 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:51,880 OK. 383 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:52,880 OK. 384 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,120 So now we could talk about some of the reading and writing apps that we went into. 385 00:19:57,120 --> 00:20:01,760 My most favorite is always always always going to be. 386 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,040 I'll wait till I get to grow a fine motor because it's more fine motor. 387 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,320 We talked about learning LA and this wasn't something that I had really ever really thought 388 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,520 of and I don't know why but membership is required for that. 389 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:19,320 But it essentially this is an audio book app that there are so many audio books and students 390 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,800 that are allowed to go on here. 391 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:29,680 Students are struggling with reading students that are struggling with some dyslexia processing 392 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:34,720 phonetic just any students are having some learning difficulty or reading difficulties. 393 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,440 This is a really they can slow it down and I'm sure it's the same with any audio book 394 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:39,920 app. 395 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:46,040 This one just was we talked about it because it's used primarily within the school systems. 396 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:47,040 I guess. 397 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:48,040 Have you ever heard of that as well. 398 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,040 I haven't. 399 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:50,040 OK. 400 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,040 I haven't heard of it. 401 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,680 So it's a subscription based but it's apparently it's a subscription based that a lot of schools 402 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:59,640 and educational facilities are they get that would be something good to add in cultivating 403 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:00,640 readers. 404 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:01,640 That's 2.0. 405 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:02,640 Wow. 406 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:03,640 There's lots of cross. 407 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:05,240 This was such a good workshop for you to go. 408 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:06,240 It really did. 409 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:07,240 There's a lot of crossover. 410 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:08,240 Yeah. 411 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:09,240 You're right. 412 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,240 There actually was. 413 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:11,240 Oh my gosh. 414 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:12,240 You were right. 415 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,680 My most favorite. 416 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:15,680 You love that. 417 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:16,680 That's going to be her sound bite. 418 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,680 She's going to pull that out. 419 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,680 You were right. 420 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:30,120 Voice Dream Reader was the coolest thing that I've ever seen because it allows you as a 421 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:36,920 student that needs to read a book that is in front of you to take your iPhone scan it 422 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:41,160 and it reads that document out loud stop it out loud right then and there. 423 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,040 What a great piece of assistive technology. 424 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:44,040 Yes. 425 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:45,040 Right. 426 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,200 For any what if anyone forgot your glasses. 427 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:48,200 Exactly. 428 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,200 What if. 429 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,460 And that is exactly what this app has allowed people to do. 430 00:21:52,460 --> 00:21:56,480 What if you're studying and you just can't read one more thing or what if you're an audio 431 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:00,200 learner instead of a reading learner visual and you just want. 432 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:01,200 Oh my god. 433 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,200 Right. 434 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:03,200 That is way so cool. 435 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,200 So it converts any text to read aloud. 436 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:06,200 Anything. 437 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,940 So also very cool. 438 00:22:07,940 --> 00:22:12,120 When you said translation earlier this is something that it's translatable to different 439 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,120 languages as well. 440 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:14,120 So. 441 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:15,120 Oh wow. 442 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:16,120 Right. 443 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:17,120 I'm like I'm using this maybe. 444 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:18,120 Wait. 445 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:20,120 Talk to me about these customizable voices. 446 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:24,280 Is this like Siri where I can make it be an Australian man. 447 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,280 Yeah. 448 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,800 So some of those and that's the same with a lot of the things that have voice outputs 449 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,000 like oh I'm just so ignorant. 450 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,400 Oh this is so cool. 451 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,000 Yeah Reese's proloquo has various different voices. 452 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,360 He uses the Josh voice which is a younger student. 453 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:40,360 But you know what. 454 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,360 Like it's like you know but his voice is getting deeper. 455 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:45,720 Maybe he needs to be Dave. 456 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:46,880 Yeah I don't know what the name is. 457 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:47,880 But now. 458 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:48,880 But you can. 459 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:49,880 You can customize it. 460 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,680 You can download Snoop Dogg to be reading it out. 461 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:53,880 But like your GPS. 462 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:58,520 Like my children who the story where my mom had them read that. 463 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,560 Mathel McConaughey read them so they fell asleep. 464 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:02,760 Yes. 465 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:07,200 But I think that might be in the Calm app and that is actually an app that we're talking 466 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,200 about. 467 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,200 I know one. 468 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,200 I know one. 469 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,200 Yes you do know one. 470 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,440 So anyways that book that voice Dream Reader was the coolest thing that I mean that blew 471 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:17,760 my mind. 472 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,040 You popped it out scanned it. 473 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:21,480 It read aloud. 474 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:22,480 So that's it. 475 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,760 And is that free just within that purchase. 476 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:25,760 There's in that purchases. 477 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:30,560 So sometimes you have to watch some videos and you know but what a cool how. 478 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:31,560 Right. 479 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:32,560 Right. 480 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:33,560 Yeah. 481 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,000 The other one that I thought was really really cool is for students that really struggle 482 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:42,440 with handwriting is this snap type pro to its forty nine ninety nine a year. 483 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,180 But it allows students to take pictures of their worksheets and it makes them customize 484 00:23:46,180 --> 00:23:50,600 fillable objects like like that like a PDF like a PDF. 485 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,040 Wow. 486 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,400 So that's for students that were handwriting is a struggle where we don't want to have 487 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,520 a scribe that's with this student. 488 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:04,080 This allows them to take users this technology and then it makes it and then it can be turned 489 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,200 into their teacher. 490 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:06,200 Your kid needs it. 491 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:12,240 I swear I was I was like oh you mean the kids who behaviors when they because they don't 492 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,000 understand the point because everyone just types now anyway. 493 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,480 So what's the point of the end right. 494 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:17,480 The point. 495 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:18,480 Wow. 496 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:19,480 Oh yeah. 497 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,840 Um there are some you know we we see our zones of regulation. 498 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:30,520 So a lot to help calm down the zones of regulation app is five ninety nine but it helps students 499 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,960 kind of learn and recognize their emotions through those zones that are really aware 500 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,800 our kids are really aware of. 501 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:42,480 But it also gives them prompts of you know maybe to get back into green maybe chewing 502 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,080 gum would help you. 503 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,960 Oh we like ideas ideas ideas ideas. 504 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,520 So it's not just like oh green or your yellow. 505 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,000 You need to get to green. 506 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,680 It gives you maybe some tools or strategies to get you there. 507 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,280 Really age appropriate ones. 508 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:02,040 Maybe chewing gum isn't do you feel like your age when you do it. 509 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:03,920 You feel like kind of your level. 510 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:04,920 OK. 511 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:05,920 OK. 512 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:06,920 OK. 513 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:07,920 Yeah. 514 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:09,920 And then there's that breathing do with Sesame and again that's probably for a lot younger 515 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:15,880 kids but it is designed with those Sesame Street characters kind of the same things. 516 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:23,480 There are some like next steps and it says you know planning I guess it would say. 517 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,520 But but with those Sesame Street characters. 518 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,360 So there are so many options. 519 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:29,360 Yeah. 520 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:31,000 Um and then what. 521 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:37,040 Then if we go into like sensory and calm those are just kind of movement ones. 522 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,040 OK. 523 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:39,040 Noodle is. 524 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,560 And I think those are things some of these are already commonly. 525 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:43,560 Yeah. 526 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:44,560 Yeah. 527 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:45,560 Said in classrooms. 528 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:46,560 Yeah. 529 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:47,560 I was aware of a lot of them. 530 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:48,560 Some movement. 531 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:49,560 I mean yeah. 532 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,840 Um and then as we get to fine motor that's kind of my favorite. 533 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,520 I use my kids iPad a lot for his fine motor work. 534 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:03,880 Dexteria Junior is hand exercises. 535 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,040 We I've seen this at the clinic. 536 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,520 I've seen my son the OT kind of use this. 537 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:14,000 They use it to develop hand strength but really those really really fine motor like pointing 538 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,880 and pinching and tracing but all within this app. 539 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,720 Letter school is handwriting practice. 540 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:28,680 My favorite handwriting practice one is writing wizard that allows you to customize it. 541 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,400 I can put my kid's name in there. 542 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,600 I could put sight words on there. 543 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,640 You can pick different varying levels. 544 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,720 I just like that I can make his name in there and then he can trace his name. 545 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,040 Functional it's totally functional. 546 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,840 And at the end when they complete it it exposed there's a big explosion and fire. 547 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,160 Oh who doesn't love that. 548 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,160 Right. 549 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:50,160 It's super fun. 550 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:51,160 Everybody. 551 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:52,160 Yeah. 552 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:53,160 Yeah. 553 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,680 There's there's just a few other ones. 554 00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:01,800 And then there were the we ended the day at iPad boot camp. 555 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:10,160 We put a cherry on top by our gross motor app and it was our super stretch yoga. 556 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:16,240 And it was really fun because it puts the yoga poses into cartoon like characters the 557 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:17,240 downward dog. 558 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,680 There was a dog with his bum in the air and then we all did it. 559 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,760 You know you have to kind of match the same poses as the animal. 560 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:24,760 Perfect. 561 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:25,760 Yeah. 562 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,600 So it's really fun and it got that it got our wiggles out. 563 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:28,960 It gets you moving. 564 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,280 But it's very age appropriate for kids to. 565 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:37,120 If you'll remember way back in the dark ages we did a variation of that and peer leadership. 566 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:38,120 Yes. 567 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:39,120 Do you remember that. 568 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:40,640 I do remember that back in the dark ages. 569 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,040 Back in the dark ages. 570 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:47,440 So we spent just two whole days just learning about assistive technology and I learned that 571 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,640 it's assistive technology is so much more than you think it is. 572 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:51,640 Yeah. 573 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,160 It sounds like it's way more than I thought. 574 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,200 And you can kind of do something with everything. 575 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,160 There is an app to support everybody. 576 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,040 Sometimes you're going to spend a lot of money sometimes you're not going to spend any money. 577 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:04,720 So thank you for bringing that up. 578 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:10,680 Is there a fund for schools where they like an assistive technology fund because assistive 579 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,280 technology is part of IDEA. 580 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:13,280 Yeah. 581 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,280 It is a must. 582 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:15,480 Absolutely. 583 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,840 And if these apps are necessary to support a student's learning in the school environment 584 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,560 for their free and appropriate education. 585 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:23,560 Yeah. 586 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:29,160 These are apps that the school should and could be asked to pay for or to ask to how 587 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,560 is on their own assistive technology. 588 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:32,560 Yeah. 589 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,080 And what about the AT project. 590 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:37,080 Yes. 591 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,080 Were they there? 592 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,080 They were there. 593 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,080 Okay. 594 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,080 And did they talk about their lending libraries? 595 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,000 They did not necessarily talk about their lending libraries but I think it's because 596 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,480 everybody there knew about it. 597 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:49,480 But I could talk about it. 598 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:50,480 Yeah. 599 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,280 I'm like I don't know anything about lending. 600 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,960 So I did mention earlier that we have the lovely, lovely, lovely. 601 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:57,960 She's kind of lovely. 602 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,720 She's so freaking sweet. 603 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:00,720 So sweet. 604 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:07,040 Janice Karsten runs our AT project that's housed out of the University of Idaho. 605 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:12,160 However, it is a statewide lending library of assistive technology. 606 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:18,000 And so again, when you think of assistive technology, don't just think of iPads. 607 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,800 Don't just think of it on AAC, Allison. 608 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,800 Don't because the assistive technology that's available at those learning libraries is things 609 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:30,880 like grabbers. 610 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,760 You could have different ramps. 611 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:33,760 For wheelchairs. 612 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:34,760 Exactly. 613 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,640 There are so many different things. 614 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,440 Yeah, there is assistive technology. 615 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:39,620 That is technology. 616 00:29:39,620 --> 00:29:41,080 That is iPads. 617 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:42,440 There are some switches. 618 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,000 There are just there's toys. 619 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:50,680 There's varying different, varying levels of technology. 620 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,220 There's some Braille machines. 621 00:29:52,220 --> 00:29:56,880 There are I wonder if they have one of those alarm clocks. 622 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,220 I potentially could. 623 00:29:58,220 --> 00:30:01,480 If they don't, they need to get one because more people need to try that. 624 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:06,640 If you take a sleep medication and you struggle to wake up in the morning, that alarm clock, 625 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:07,640 its name is clocky. 626 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:08,640 Really? 627 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,340 Not to be confused, I guess. 628 00:30:10,340 --> 00:30:11,520 So I said that the other day. 629 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,720 I said it's clocky. 630 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:13,800 And so someone Googled it. 631 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,520 It could have even been Sarah in our office. 632 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,420 And she said, oh, it's a cartoon. 633 00:30:18,420 --> 00:30:20,840 And I said, Nae Nae, it's an alarm clock. 634 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,920 So I think there's a real cartoon called Clocky, but the one that I purchased from Amazon, 635 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,840 shoot, I'll put the link in the description. 636 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:30,840 Like and subscribe. 637 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:36,320 I'm not, I'm not, obviously we're not being paid by them. 638 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:40,240 This isn't a plug, but it is something that I think people, other people could benefit 639 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:41,280 from. 640 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:48,360 It's just cool to know that I have just incredibly recently benefited from assistive technology. 641 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:53,440 I know they didn't talk about the future of assistive technology with you at iPad bootcamp, 642 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,400 but in preparation for this podcast, I went down a rabbit hole. 643 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:03,160 And I, cause I was thinking, you know, in 1998 when they had the assistive technology 644 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,820 act, right? 645 00:31:05,820 --> 00:31:11,680 Did they know what AT was going to look like in 2024 when we had it? 646 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:12,680 Right? 647 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:13,680 No, of course not. 648 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,120 How could they have possibly known? 649 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:21,960 So then that got my gears a turn in what would AT look like, you know, 20 years from now? 650 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,960 I know 98 was, was like 20. 651 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,720 I want to pretend like it was 10 years ago. 652 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:27,720 You went over 20 years ago. 653 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:28,720 It was a while ago when I graduated. 654 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,720 Right? 655 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:30,720 Yeah. 656 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:31,720 Let's see. 657 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:32,720 Okay. 658 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:33,720 Don't age your speech. 659 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:34,720 Oh, I know. 660 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:35,720 I'm sorry. 661 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:36,720 You need my assistive technology name. 662 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:37,720 I know. 663 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,160 So I started, I started on the Googles. 664 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,400 There are so many websites that are dedicated to the future of assistive technology. 665 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,360 And I've included one in the description below the things that they were talking about. 666 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,240 So if you think about it for a second, it makes a lot of sense, right? 667 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:57,000 They're talking about the integration of AI into assistive technology, which is kind of 668 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,800 what you touched on a little bit earlier with the smart home. 669 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:01,800 Yeah. 670 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,040 And the light switches and all of your shortcuts. 671 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,040 I mean, we didn't even touch on shortcuts. 672 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:07,040 Right. 673 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,040 Yeah. 674 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:12,600 And I think that that is something super cool that everybody should explore is the shortcuts. 675 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,600 But there were two things that I really wanted to talk about because I just thought they 676 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:17,800 were so cool. 677 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:18,800 Okay. 678 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,840 So the first one is smart wheelchairs, right? 679 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:21,840 Okay. 680 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:22,840 Okay. 681 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:27,880 Wheelchairs and other mobility aids will become more intelligent with features like obstacle 682 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:34,200 detection, autonomous navigation, and integration with smart home devices. 683 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:39,360 How cool would it be if you were an individual who utilized a wheelchair and you're on your 684 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:45,920 way home and you just, I want my microwave to start popping my popcorn or my cure to 685 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:46,920 percolate. 686 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:47,920 Your doors open. 687 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:48,920 Yeah. 688 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:49,920 So cool. 689 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:55,200 Why is it not already a possibility in the year of our Lord 2024? 690 00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:02,360 Well, something really cool that's along those lines that I have purchased the equipment 691 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:07,800 to make this happen and I am committing to these users, these listeners that I will do 692 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:08,800 it this weekend. 693 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,560 I'm excited because I want this for my son. 694 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:18,280 So I have purchased a smart plug and then we can program his iPad to say, Alexa, turn 695 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:19,280 on my TV. 696 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:20,720 It'll turn on his TV. 697 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,320 So on his AIC device, he just, oh. 698 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,160 And that was something I learned about the future. 699 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,040 That's funny because we talked, so I guess we did talk about the future. 700 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:30,040 A little bit. 701 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,080 Yeah, okay. 702 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:38,600 And I guess more than anything, I left this bootcamp as a mom of a student who uses an 703 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,280 AIC device, really, really, really happy that my kid was born when he was born and that 704 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,280 he has access to this. 705 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,280 Why? 706 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:47,280 Yeah. 707 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:48,280 Wow. 708 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,280 Thank goodness. 709 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,280 Because 20 years ago, we would have had a communication binder that we would have been 710 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:53,880 carrying around trying to get him to. 711 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:54,880 The Velcro. 712 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:55,880 Yeah. 713 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:56,880 More of the Velcro. 714 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:57,880 More of the Velcro. 715 00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:58,880 Now there's a time and a place for Velcro. 716 00:33:58,880 --> 00:33:59,880 Absolutely. 717 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:00,880 Absolutely. 718 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:05,440 And you need to know of assistive technology that you can utilize should you want to go 719 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,560 camping, should the power go out. 720 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:08,560 In the bathtub. 721 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:09,920 I need to be able to. 722 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:10,920 Absolutely. 723 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,520 So there is a time and a place for all different kinds of technology, but yeah, I'm glad you 724 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:15,520 did that. 725 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:16,520 Can I talk about one? 726 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,480 Yeah, because I thought that was so cool. 727 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:19,480 Okay. 728 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:25,320 Exoskeletons and robotics for individuals with mobility issues. 729 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,840 Robotic exoskeletons, and I looked this up, it's real. 730 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:34,920 They're really like, it's almost like ready for the typical consumer audience. 731 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,520 It's not just been tested. 732 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,280 It's almost ready to be. 733 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:43,280 Obviously these are prices that are astronomically different than what we're talking about, but 734 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,960 we're talking about the future. 735 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,840 Robotic exoskeletons will become more common, providing children with physical disabilities 736 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,840 new opportunities for mobility and independence. 737 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:59,440 And I thought about the story that I'm going to share about when you said that you had 738 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:05,180 a PT on consult who helped to make sure that your son could navigate the stairs. 739 00:35:05,180 --> 00:35:10,160 This makes me think of like, what if schools had these in instances of emergency preparedness? 740 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:11,720 What about a fire drill? 741 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:14,480 What about an unsafe person drill? 742 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:15,480 What about... 743 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:16,480 Right. 744 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,680 Anywhere, we could be anywhere. 745 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:23,640 An earthquake drill, tornado drill, name a natural disaster, right? 746 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:28,500 What if we could use these in those instances to get individuals out of the building faster 747 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,480 and more effectively and efficiently? 748 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:35,480 And again, like I said, if you're a nerd, kind of like me, I've included that in the 749 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,840 description where there is so much more than what I just described. 750 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:40,840 Infinitely more. 751 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:46,160 And they have the future of AAC devices, which after knowing my audience, I should have looked 752 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,080 that one more into that one. 753 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,600 But it is wild. 754 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:56,720 The future is bright and big and she's a coming down the mountain when she comes. 755 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:01,280 I mean, 20 years ago, iPads were $4,000 an iPad or something. 756 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:02,280 True. 757 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:03,280 That's true. 758 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,560 We had an iPod, we had a phone, we had a... 759 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:06,880 Oh my God, I calculated. 760 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,360 So it's getting more accessible. 761 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:11,360 Absolutely. 762 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:12,360 Yay. 763 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:25,880 Thank you so much, everyone out there for listening in and know that if you are in Idaho 764 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:33,480 or planning on moving to Idaho and have questions on systems or services for children with disabilities, 765 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:43,840 please consider reaching out to us on our website at iPullIdaho.org or by calling us 766 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,920 at 208-342-5884. 767 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,960 Be sure to tune in next time. 768 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,160 Until then, this has been Unlimited Parenting. 769 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,160 Thanks for listening.