Joey’s Foundation blog
Education
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Helping Kids Identify Their Feelings With Books About Waiting
Picture books about waiting help children name the restless feelings of quarantine and uncertainty.
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Accessing Online Resources with AAC
Using Pioneer Valley’s free Digital Reader to keep leveled reading going online during quarantine.
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Getting Joey Reading
Joey’s strong visual memory for sight words raises the next question: how to move from recognizing words to reading with understanding.
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Measuring Joey’s Progress
How to measure what Joey knows academically, rather than just how well he uses his AAC device.
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Who Reads? Creating new routines for learning new skills
Building a new routine so Joey does more of the reading himself, even when he tries to negotiate his way out of it.
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When Ideas Don’t Work…
A favorite card game, Sleeping Queens, falls flat with Joey, and what that teaches about changing plans.
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Exploring Similar Sounding Words – Looking Deeper into Components of Learning to Read on the AAC Device
Reading a Mo Willems book raises how “to,” “too,” and “two” work on the device, and what that means for learning to read.
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Learning to Read on an AAC Device
Joey is doing well with predictable pattern books; the next challenge is decoding new words without reading aloud.
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Learning High Frequency Words
Starting kindergarten sight words with Joey after his quick success with letters and letter sounds.
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Making a Monster (Art Project)
After reading Monster Trouble, an art project set up so Joey controls as much of his monster as he can.