WEBSITE ACTIVITIES DIANE K. ELLIS AAC CONSULTANT ...

• "Friends" from RAPS: Reading Activities Project for Older Students by
Musselwhite This is a reproducible emergent literacy symbolized story.
Students help to read the story and then play the "Friends" game of
pulling names or symbolic sentence cues to complete from a hat.
(Appendix H)
• Special Cards – Write lines for a poem from symbolic processing software
to send to someone for Valentines, Christmas, Birthdays, etc. Make
overlays for students to use to "write" the lines.
D. RESOURCES:
There are a variety of resources available for working with students who
have severe/profound disabilities.
• "Quick Tech Magic: Music Based Literacy Activities" and "Quick Tech
Activities for Literacy" by Coleman, McNairn & Shioleno from Mayer-
Johnson Company.
These books consist of skill-related songs about daily school activities and
literacy activities. A description of low-tech devices to facilitate the use of
music, adapted songs, adapted literacy activities, choice making cards an
additional resources are included.
• "Units: Music, Art & Cooking" by Dianne DeTommaso from Mayer-
Johnson Company
This book includes 9 units as well as creative writing activities used with
students who use augmentative communication devices. The units include
music, art and cooking activities as well as reproducible communication
overlays, recipe cards and patterns. Recipe cards use symbolic reading
support.
• "This Is the One I Want" by Linda G. Richman from Mayer-Johnson Co. A
cut & paste activity book of 33 lessons which use graphic symbols. The goal
of each lesson is to develop pragmatic functions of requesting, relating
experiences and answering questions.
• "RAPS: Reading Activities Project for Older Students" by Southwest
Human Development Inc. from Mayer-Johnson
This book is designed for persons chronologically over the age of 8 but who
are at the emergent literacy level. There are 10 stories in the series, which
include a symbolized story (simple story line, line drawings, symbols
representing key concepts), 2 functional symbol displays and extension
activities.
• "Hands-On Reading", "More Hands-On Reading" and "Hands-On Reading:
Classroom Classics" by Kelly and Friend from Mayer-Johnson.
These three books use popular children's literature as a vehicle for
teaching communication. One goal is to maximize the participation of nonverbal
students in story time activities. It lists children's books with goals,
objectives, resources, hands-on activities, symbolic worksheets and
corresponding communication overlays.
• "A Book of Possibilities" by Canfield & Locke from AbleNet Inc.