Durkin Kim - TVI - Frederick County Public Schools, MD -- "Increasing Communication with Tactile Symbols and Familiar Objects" -- Field-initiated Mini-grant recipient presenation
2. Purpose
Seamlessly integrate an additional form of communication
with the school wide Core Vocabulary initiative
Increase knowledge of CVI across all stakeholders
Create a more symbolic form of communication through
repeated exposure to a fixed and universal set of concrete
school symbols and objects across settings
more concrete symbols through actual objects or parts of the
object on a black background or tactile symbols/words made with
crafts
3. Population
(8 students)
Rock Creek School is a regional school in Frederick County with special
education programs for students with severe intellectual, physical, emotional,
hearing, visual and learning disabilities. The school services students from age
3 through the school year they reach 21. The students at Rock Creek School are
most often diagnosed with multiple disabilities
All targeted students have been diagnosed with visual impairments (VI)
Seven of the eight have a diagnosis of Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)
Three of the students with VI also have mild to profound hearing loss
4. Our plan
Work with initiatives already in place at RCS
Mark Campano
Be sure we were sensitive to the information he was sharing
High frequency abstract symbols using Boardmaker symbols
for communication
Used core vocabulary words to develop a theme for our CVI room
Pathways Reading Program
Added actual objects related to the story
Prescheduled Professional Development times
Conducted a 2 hour PD with the assistants on March 13, 2017
9. Next Steps
Continue to add actual objects to frequently used books
Create a model CVI classroom
Continue with school wide professional development and
collaboration
Data collection
Family PD
