WELCOME TO THE POPS SPEDSTER DAI VERBAL COMMUNICATION PAGE
The Pops Spedster site is home to an instructional system designed to meet the academic and community-based instructional needs of students
with intellectual/cognitive impairments.
The results of the probe can be used to design individualized education plans that meet IDEA requirements.
Some ELL students and home-schooled students could also benefit from the materials being offered on this site.
Pops Spedster And Company is an Oregon-based 501c3 non-profit, registered with the Oregon Secretary of State's office.
Disclaimer
DISCLAIMER -
The Special Education resources contained on this site are based on my 13 years of experience teaching medically fragile students in adaptive life skills public school classrooms.
Pops Spedster And Company makes no representations about the accuracy of information from third party sources contained on this site, nor do we accept any responsibility for the use of this information.
While we aspire to present best practices in serving a medically fragile student population, scientific developments and research have created a fertile environment of approaches to instruction that have resulted in a changing pedagogical discipline that works to improve the lives of people with developmental disabilities.
- James M. Kemp/ AKA Pops Spedster.
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The Communication Domain of the DAI Assessment System starts with the assessment of an individual's verbal communication skills. Scoring is based on a 0 to 3 scale.
The discriminators specify whether the utterances of the individual are verbalizations (more sounds than actual words) or actual words. Scoring for the use of augmentative devices should be based on any and all augmentative devices from simple switches to electronic tablet apps.
In this photo, a student with limited mobility makes choices using a clock communicator. Pictures of choices are velcroed to the clock face. The student uses a simple button switch to move the hand of the clock to the desired item or activity.
DAI ASSESSMENT FOR STUDENTS WITH LOW INCIDENCE DISABILITIES
Score each item 1 to 3 with 1 being “needs full assistance”
and 3 being “independent. Score 0 if there is no evidence to support the
described behavior.
A. Expressive Communication Domain
Verbal /Gestural/Signed Communication
I can use between 1 and 5 verbalizations to
communicate my needs and wants. _____
I can use a combination of English words and verbalizations to
communicate my needs and wants. _____
I can use as many as ten English words to communicate my
needs. _____
I can use more than 10 words in English and/or another language to communicate my
needs and wants. _____
I can use an augmentative device with up to 4
choices. _____
I can use an augmentative device with up to 8
choices. _____
I can use my own gestures to communicate my needs and wants. _____
I use American Sign Laguage modified to my indivudal signs to communicate my needs and wants.
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I use regular ASL signs to
communicate my needs and wants. ______
I use full spoken sentences in English to communicate my needs and wants. ______
Domain Subtotal -_____
A RELATIVELY HIGH Domain Subtotal score on this section of the DAI Assessment probably means that the individual has little or no need for instruction in Verbal Communication. Scores of 0 on discriminators 5 and 6 may indicate that the individual either has no need of an augmentative communication device or that the individual has never been matched with and trained to use an augmentative communication device.
Here is an Excel spreadsheet to help with this assessment. It automatically calculates the score for each discrimintor and can be used to produce a profile chart for this domain as it relates to each individual being assessed. Click below to open the spreadsheet.
This video has gone through many different versions. It is based on a children's book written in 1999, for a graduate level class in Special Education, at Western Oregon University and taught by Dr. Mickey Pardew.
Many of the versions of this video are published on our YouTube channel
with the user name Pops Spedster And Company.
Like and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Here is a link to a stop motion animated version's introduction video on You Tube - https://youtu.be/ugB8RB5kt8k
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Since 2008, Pops Spedster And Company has published content for the developmental disabilities community.
THIS SITE CONTAINS MANY WORKSHEETS THAT CAN BE PRINTED OUT BY AND FOR STUDENTS.
ALL WORKSHEETS ON THIS SITE ARE FREE, BUT PLEASE DO NOT CLAIM A COPYRIGHT ON THESE FREE MATERIALS.
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