Joey’s Foundation blog
Education
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Collaboration as the Key
How the special educator, speech pathologist, and a special education professor plan the inclusive pod together, because “the answer is in the room.”
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Inclusive Augmented Learning Pod: Reflections on Day 2
Third graders write Joey into the lead role of their play, and every student tries his eye-gaze device to feel how much work each word takes.
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Opening the Doors of Our Augmented Learning Program Pod
The inclusive AAC pod opens in September 2020, organized around one year-long question: what is community?
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Starting an inclusive AAC Pod!
Why the Foundation launched an after-school pod bringing AAC users and their typically developing peers together during virtual school.
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Adapting Grade Level Work
Adapting the district’s kindergarten summer packet so Joey can do the same work as every other student.
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Measuring Reading Comprehension
Ways to tell whether Joey is reading and understanding when he can’t read aloud, such as matching sentences to pictures and building sentences.
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Exploring Chapter Books
Moving to simple chapter books like Mercy Watson to match what other rising first graders are reading, with comprehension questions along the way.
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The Day You Begin: Another great book for all types of diversity
Jacqueline Woodson’s The Day You Begin opens a conversation about difference and belonging in a virtual read-aloud group.
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Don’t forget to include all your learners in your important read-alouds
Using Jacqueline Woodson’s The Other Side to talk about discrimination and racism with AAC users, not only with their speaking peers.
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What About Next School Year?
As schools plan to reopen, a proposal for small in-person groups combining inclusive instruction with communication support.