Tuesday September 22, 2009

I have emailed Dawn the two different forms I made and put together last night.

I set up the printer to print out the forms, but all that it does is print in the excel form. Then you cannot see how the questions are set up. If I had printed the initial evaluation out, I would not have had the scale questions or the yes or no boxes or the multiple-choice questions. So I will have to use my computer to answer the questions when I actually do get to have my interview with this parent finally.

I also called the parent this morning and left her a message reminding her about the meeting today at 2:45 because I knew that I could not call her later to remind her while I am working at school.

The parent called to cancel the meeting and rescheduled for next week the 29 at 2:45. We will see if she actually comes then. If that meeting does not happen or go over well, then I might have to move on to another student as much I want to work with this one, the parent must be involved, invested, and easy to access. It would also be easier to work with a family in Baldwin County and be able to drop by to check in on the progress. I really need to get these initial interviews done very soon. Maybe I could make sure that mine were ready for the teacher on Thursday. I am frustrated that this puts us another week behind for the project. I keep thinking that I am finally going to get to move ahead, and I know exactly what I want to do, but now I have to get the parents on board which is taking forever and is very frustrating at this time.
I emailed Dr. Wills to let him know that the meeting was canceled, and I really hope that he got my message in time. I would feel terrible if he drove all the way out here and canceled something else for this, which is not going to happen. I am not allowed to have my phone at school, so I have no other way of contacting him at this time. I did try my best, which is all that I can do.
I need to figure out what I am going to do with the other time that I am going to work this week. Maybe I can get Cody to go take a great picture of me for the project .I already know that I do not have any great ones on my computer of me by myself that are any where near up to date.
I can also use the help tools for Dynavox online and look up success stories to learn more about the product and how it is implemented.

I want to learn about how a speech therapist recommends a dynavox and sets the parameters for the program. Do the speech language pathologists even know the Dynavox well enough to tell a parent the best mode to use? I would guess that the Speech Therapists are also undereducated about the potential of the Dynavox.

I went online and looked up Speech Language Pathologists that I can look into finding out how much they know and use Assistive Technology with their patients in the area.

The Dynavox website itself is incredible and so helpful. There are success stories, videos, online classes on specific topics, and articles to dispel myths about Augmentative Assistive Technology. This is just barely scratching the surface of their website. I will do some more researching and looking on their websites to learn more about what services this company provides the public and the users through the internet.
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