Hugh’s literacy leaps

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Student	Hugh	Date	28 July 2008
		Observer	Sharon (teacher aide)

Background

One of the goals of Hugh’s IEP when he came to intermediate was to learn his phone number and street name. Over 18 months we had tried a variety of strategies but he could get so far but no further!

We tried starting with three numbers and then increasing slowly but could still never get all seven numbers consistently. We tried for several months for Hugh to pronounce his street name but it ended up with only two syllables instead of three and the street name was not very clear.

Hugh loves computers and we had all been amazed at how he could find his way into programs after being signed in, even to downloading games and teaching other students how to find games. We thought using his phone number to sign in might be a good motivator.

Today, we told Hugh that he had to sign in on his own using his home phone number. Hugh remembered his password (his phone number) without prompting 24 hours after we initiated the idea!

Hugh was through into his programmes without any teacher aide assistance! Why had we not thought of this before!

Footnote: Hugh can now say his street name and write it in as his password on the computer; this is reinforced with his sight word flashcards. He also uses computer software programmes for literacy and numeracy. A calculator aids his addition.

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