![]() A princess, a knight and a sloth travelling to a castle needed to fend off a hungry lion. Garcia’s story aired in the dark room toward at the end of the day. The students’ primary job was to make a story with a plot, conflict and resolution that made sense. “The main purpose is to bring special education and STEM education together.” “This was an opportunity for students who wouldn’t typically be at the forefront of a presentation to really be in charge,” Klish said. The school’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) program integrated its model with about 25 students who were either learning disabled or cognitively disabled. “The Three Amigos” was a story created with an iPad animation application called Toontastic. ![]() She can also preset the device to make short statements, like the name of a group project during a presentation. Garcia’s parents will also get a tutorial on how to use and program proloquo2go.Īfter a few months with the iPad, Garcia can answer yes and no questions and tell people how she feels and if she needs anything. Once she graduates, Garcia will get to keep her tablet and use it to communicate for the rest of her life. “When the opportunity came up, we put as much money as we could into this test program because we thought it would be the most worthwhile way to impact students in this school,” said FLSOSSF member Spencer Larrabee, 18. The group is supported by an outside foundation that gives it $4,000 every year to dole out to other school programs. The iPad Mini was provided to Garcia through the school’s Future Leaders Supporting Other Students Support Foundation, a student club. This technology helps break down those barriers.” “Knowing parts of three languages is a challenging enough. “Dani understands a little sign language as well as English and Spanish,” Hanson said. Thanks to a new pilot program at Northglenn High, she has dictated her first words through a surrogate application called proloquo2go that was preloaded onto an iPad Mini for her last fall. Garcia is developmentally disabled and cannot speak. The title of our story is ‘The Three Amigos.’ ” She tapped the screen a few times, and a booming, robotic voice burst through the speakers. Garcia was beaming when she took the glowing device. While her group members lined up in front of the screen, Garcia, 15, stepped off to the side and held out her hands to Klish for her iPad Mini. Students came in during their spare time to work on these projects.” “Some of them did voices, some of them picked characters and some of them helped make the story. “The kids worked really hard,” said Tanya Klish, speech language pathologist at Northglenn High. Along with her four group members, Garcia prepared to introduce the two-minute, two-dimensional animated story that took them three weeks to create. ![]() She looked like a princess - just like her favorite character from the cartoon that was about to play on the giant projection screen behind her on Jan. ![]() She wore a long, pink dress, a matching pink belt and a silver sparkling headband in her dark hair. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuĭani Garcia skipped toward the front of the darkened presentation room in the STEM building at Northglenn High School.
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