The Language Stealers
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- As part of the Radiowaves Street Life project, funded by Youth In Action for the British Council, and with additional funding from Co Durham Youth Opportunity Scheme, animator Vivien Peach working with us at Henderson House, Chilton. We made Language Stealers to promote our 'Equality Without Words?' campaign and the language boards of core words we are making.
Language Stealers is a story of attribution, exposing the real barriers to communication for students with speech and motor impairments as being more to do with the situation they find themselves in than anything to do with their disposition. If nobody gives us a way to say or write the core words, or only gives us lesson nouns to go on class worksheets but no literacy instruction, then how dare they attribute our language delay to lack of ability?
AAC and literacy specialists around the world are teaching learners with the most severe physical and cognitive disabilities to read and write and it's about time it was happening for everybody.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states equal education, accessible information, freedom of expression, and the facilitation of communication by any method(s) of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) of a person's choosing is a legal right.
Please read Articles 2, 21 and 24 of the Convention www.un.org/disa...
AAC & Literacy specialists:
Penn State story live.psu.edu/st... about two new sites from Janice Light and David McNaughton
Literacy aacliteracy.psu... (see the results aacliteracy.psu...) and
Language and Communication aackids.psu.edu...
The Center for Literacy and Disability Studies www.med.unc.edu...
Comprehensive Literacy Instruction for Older Students by Karen Erickson, David Koppenhaver, Penny Hatch, ISAAC 2006 Pre-conference www.aacawarenes...
AAC RERC Webcast Series, Reading and AAC, Janice Light and David McNaughton, Pennsylvania State University aac-rerc.psu.ed...
Caroline Musselwhite www.aacinterven...
Gail Van Tatenhove www.vantatenhove.com
The National Literacy Trust: Campaign for Reading Rights www.literacytru...
Scope Freedom of Expression campaign No Voice, No Choice
TASH Resolution: AAC and the Right to Communicate www.tash.org/IR...
Awesome. Can't wait to share it with school teams! Thank you!
This video is awesome. It made me laugh and cry. It made me cry because when my daughter got her first device, she was so happy to be able to say some things. Then we sent it to school and the speech person made new screens that were the only ones she was supposed to use at school. Yes. No. Good Morning. Her words were stolen from her.
You go! Keep saying these truths!
I just wanted to say how awesome this video is to show the EAs I work with! I saw this in my AAC class at University. It is so important.
I love this! You're right. Language is not just for naming things.
I love this video. My husband even asked why we don't actually teach students how to "talk" with A.T. That's a great question for most teachers. Thanks for this!!!
totally fantastic!!!!!!! Congratulations to all involved
Thank you! The angels are called Bruce, Janice, Karen, Katya, Tony and Gail - Baker, Light, Hill, Jones and Van Tatenhove.
We've cried too. By year 11 we got speech and 1 teacher to use 300-500 core words with Michael. New speech reduced to Yes. No. Good Morning. And a pre-stored message for Monday morning. Then I use... I have... i want... and I like... and adjective - noun phrases like Orange Wall. Blue Door. TO KEEP IT MANAGEABLE FOR SCHOOL! His last year was Register Please. Here Register. Naming each item for lunch. And now and then asking each classmate What are you doing? Tonight? Michael's Mum, Terry.
Brilliant! Thanks for creating this.
Another great video. Thanks for all your hard work!
Thank you! We had 7 days with animator Vivien. Our gang got together lots of times to plot plan and do the art
An interesting video. Love to share this on our community page. Thanks
This is the best! Great message, great delivery!
Thank you!
Haha! Bruce the angel! I love it!!!
Thanks for telling the truth!!!
Kudos for making an amazing video! I teach an introduction to AAC course for Developmental Service Workers at Fanshawe College in London, ON, Canada. I was wondering if I could use this video in the classroom.
Thanks!
Awesome piece of work. So true - and still fun to watch. Brilliant!!
How long did it take you to produce it??
Michael, this is too wonderful! I am going to use this to illustrate and inspire how we need to change our thinking with these very unique learners. Any thoughts on getting AAC role models in the US? Molly
Good one Michael! Funny too, loved it.
Who are the angels? Some of them looked familiar.....
very interactive video.nice caption also
This is great. Can I please use this video in an AAC presentation I am giving in January 2018?
Can I have permission to use your video in a presentation for my technology in education class? I need to embed it in a presentation and then my presentation will be placed on my blog. Thank you.
@mammatrouble I hope you got my message that we are happy for you to use Language Stealers? It never appeared here on the page and I wrote 3 times. A friend said it might be because I put a link in the message - to Language Stealers on my iDisk space where you can download it. Thank you for liking and sharing!
Micheal - you are too kind.
captioning needs to be fixed. sorry, but it seemed important.
@mammatrouble My friend was right. I can't post here a link even spelled out in words! my name at pu blic me etc is michaelbreed if that helps.
@mammatrouble My friend was right. I can't post here with my iDisk URL even spelled out in words! my user name at me com is michaelbreed if that helps.
Thank you!