Rachel Madel
speaker
4,333 appearances
28 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 21 May
Rachel Madel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You ready?
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Okay.
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Hello, Chris and Rachel.
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I want to thank you for the years of podcasts that have launched my family into the world of AEC.
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I was hoping that you might be able to help me.
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My oldest, Thomas 8, is a kid who loves Winnie the Pooh, roller coasters, and jamming to his tunes.
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He has quadspastic CP, CVI, and global developmental delays.
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He's been in therapy since he was three months old.
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Thomas has never had verbal speech, but has facial expressions that clearly indicate what's
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His ability to sigh and eye roll puts any teenager to shame.
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I love this question already.
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Uh he has been working with high tech AAC since the spring of 2020, and we've made some major changes over these four years.
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He began with core scanner on an accent 1400, first with one switch and then step scanning.
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This was difficult for a number of reasons, but he's super motivated by music.
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And as soon as it clicked, that he could say play to turn it.
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On and go to skip to a different song, he found it useful enough to put in the effort.
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Just the ability for him to tell us stop or more was enough for us to be hooked on AAC for him.
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He still was only on the eight-word page, but we wanted to move through the levels in Core Scanner, though this required a lot of memorization since the program was not visually accessible.
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However, after returning to in-school instruction in kindergarten, we saw a plateau instead of growth.
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It was clear that there was
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