The ASD Video Glossary was created by Amy M. Wetherby, PhD, Director of Florida State University FIRST WORDS® Project and Nancy D. Wiseman, Founder and President of First Signs®.
This glossary contains over a hundred video clips and is available to you free of charge. Whether you are a parent, family member, friend, physician, clinician, childcare provider, or educator, it can help you see the subtle differences between typical and delayed development in young children and spot the early red flags for ASD. All of the children featured in the ASD Video Glossary as having red flags for ASD are, in fact, diagnosed with ASD.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then video must be priceless!
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My friend, Allison Zevallos, sent me this video clip. She writes:
Hello All,
We have made a short video in support of Autism Awareness Month which is April. With the support of Max, the video highlights the challengers and success that Max faces everyday.
We have posted this video on You Tube and we have an aim of over 25,000 hits. This can only happen with your help.
Feel free to share it with everyone because awareness is the key for people to understand this condition that affects 1 in 150 children worldwide. This is an epidemic and it is only getting worse, so SPREAD the word.
We hope that you enjoy the video. If you want to see it on You Tube, click here.
In my search for SLP's with blogs, I've found that there really aren't that many. Others who have been looking longer and harder than I have confirmed this. I can hear some of you now saying "I don't have time for anything else to read! I have 1,743 emails in my inbox! I have 34 children!" Okay, well maybe not that last one. But I have a hunch that once our colleagues understand what blogs can do, they will be hooked!
Blogs, or "web logs" can allow writers to publish on the topic of their choice in a multi-media environment for free or for very little investment. Some people even make tens of dollars blogging! Actually, some people blog for a living, though likely not a huge percentage. Blogs can allow readers to study a particular subject by reading short posts on a regular basis. If you have an interest in something- a hobby, profession, or even an obsession, more than likely there's someone out there blogging about it.
The "comments" function of a blog can allow a dialogue between the blog author(s) and the readers. According to Wikipedia:
As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[1]
So, there are lots of folks out there reading lots of blogs. How do they keep up? One way is to use a "reader" such as "My Yahoo" or "Google Reader."
This video explains what such readers can do very nicely.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Yes, Really. Here is a screenshot of my "My Yahoo" page for SLP blogs. This is the reader I use. There are tons of readers out there that you can find if you google "RSS Readers."
Click on the picture to see detail.
If you notice the tabs at the top of the page, you'll notice that I have 8 different pages of RSS feeds including a page for news blogs, health blogs, and SLP blogs. The "SLP Blogs" page is selected in the screenshot and you can see the names of the blogs listed along with the titles of the most recent posts. Each of the posts as well as the blog's name can be clicked on to take you directly to either the specific post or the main page of the blog. This way you can see if anything catches your eye that you might want to read more about or if you have already read the posts on the feed, you can skip going to that blog. Further, if you mouse over any post title, you can see the first few sentences of the post.
Here is a screenshot of "Google Reader" with SLP Blogs listed. Though I don't normally use "Google Reader" it seems to function more like an email inbox, except that you can view the feeds in either "list view" or "expanded view."
Click on the picture to see detail.
Happy Blog Reading!
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that my RSS (Syndication) feed link is at the bottom of the page. You can right click on "Posts (Atom)" to get the link to my feed. You can then paste that link in the reader of your choice. For example, to do that in "My Yahoo" you would click on "Personalize this Page" then click on "Add RSS Feed" under "Content" and click on "add" to finish. That will add the feed to this blog to your "My Yahoo" page. After adding RSS feeds from other sources, you can then read "Headlines" from all of your favorite sites without having to go to all of those sites specifically.
This clip is fun! Good for sharing laughs, practicing the /l/ sound for "l-l-l-licking!," or maybe even some oral motor work! (Can YOU stick your tongue out THAT far?!?!
I've been a Fast ForWord provider since 1997- the year it was released. I have been using the product since that time and have found it a very powerful tool for helping students improve auditory processing skills as well as improve reading and literacy skills. You can learn more about Fast ForWord here.
The video above tells the story of Willie Brown, a high school student, whose life was set on a different trajectory through his participation in the Fast ForWord program. Jacky Egli, the principal of Bridges Academy in Winter Springs, Florida, urged Willie to participate in the Fast ForWord program and the video clip above explains what happened.
The video clip below explains how Fast ForWord works at a neurological level.
I read about this project here. I think a documentary regarding a families journey through diagnosis and treatment could help not only other families, but neighbors, teachers, therapists, politicians, insurance companies......
I'm interested in networking with other speech/language pathologists who have blogs. Please drop me a note in the comments section, so I can add your blog to my blogroll and RSS feeds. Thanks!
I dare you to watch this video and not laugh out loud.
The other day, I was thinking about how much technology has affected every aspect of our lives, personally and professionally. When I was in graduate school in the mid 80's, one of my assignments as a speech/language pathologist (in training) was to create my own articulation cards to use with kids. This was actually a bit of a problem for me since I was not a very talented artist. I remember trying to sketch a mouse for quite a while when my friend, an architecture student, in a fit of exasperation grabbed my 3 x 5 card and sketched a mouse in about 5 seconds- Show off.
Anyway, these days technology can help us with materials in our daily work with kids.
A while back I started playing with YouTube to see how I might be able to use it with some of the kids and have found quite a few ideas.
If you go to YouTube.com, you can get an account for free. Once you have an account you can "save" videos to your account. Even though your video clips are "saved" they are not downloaded to your computer. You can watch them there on the website from any computer you have access to.
You can also create "playlists" of videos. A "playlist" is just a grouping of videoclips that you choose to group together. So, for example, one of my playlists is "Sh" words. Within this play list I have videos of:
Once I knew I wanted to find /sh/ words in YouTube. I went to the search bar at the top of the page and simply typed in the word I was looking for. So for example "shark" led me to many clips of actual sharks, many of which seemed to be eating things that might be a bit scary for some of our young friends. In which case I may have typed in "Shark jump" or something like that to find a shark doing something a bit less scary, and then found our friend, The Fonz, who was (I'm pretty sure) the original "shark jumper."
The clips are nice because they often hold the kids' attention and you can often get multiple opportunities to practice the target word. The pause button is helpful to gain attention!
You can also use video clips to elicit language. One of my playlists is called "Simple Sentences" and in that playlist I found video clips by typing in the search box terms such as "baby walk" or "boy eat" and see what pops up. Sometimes it's better to find the videos prior to your session since YouTube can sometimes be a showcase of inappropriate behavior from people with entirely too much time on their hands. (hint: see Mentos and diet coke)
There are tons of clips of babies and toddlers from all over the world on YouTube. These clips can be a wonderful resource for learning about typical child development.
Some of my other playlists include animals, specific word shapes (VC, CV, etc,) from the Kaufman Speech Praxis Treatment Kit, 3-syllable words, emotions, community helpers, etc. From these examples you can see how easy it is to find materials to share with pediatric clients.
We've come a long way since we had to make our own artic cards, right?? This way can sure save a lot of space, too! How many times have you moved your giant collection of artic cards since 1985??
