Emily Learning Single Switch Delay selection on the Vmax

AAC Treatment Video Examples!  We have the distinct fortune to work with many AAC users each week in our office.  In an effort to share their achievements and advance understanding of AAC for other professionals and families, we are going to attempt to share our clinic videos.  Videos will be chosen which show specific examples of AAC access methods, training methods, prompting strategies and different levels of communicative competence.  Please let us know if you have specific AAC related topics you would like to see in our video examples!

Emily Learning Single Switch Delay selection on the Vmax
Emily is an adorable young lady who is just learning to use her communication device.  Emily began working on cause/effect programs with 1 switch in August, 2009.  She has quickly progressed from working on 2 step scanning to move and select an item on her Vmax to using a single switch to select.  Emily shows extensive involuntary motor movement which intensifies when she is excited.  Because she has difficulty with consistently moving between 2 switches, we moved her to a single switch that moves her scan along on the device.  When she moves her scan to her intended message, she simply stops activating her switch to make the device "speak" her message.  Emily is in the learning stages of this motor pattern but is showing wonderful progress and visual attention to the moving scan.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDObjR15Afc