Rachel Madel
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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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little buy-in from his school team, they saw his hits more as random and said that he had not demonstrated that he knew cause and effect.
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After a separate issue of neglect in the school, we decided to put our energies into homeschooling.
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Fast forward to about a year and a half ago, his ability to use the switches was decreasing a bit with his massive growth spurts and spasticity, and we were getting worried.
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I was listening to Amanda Soper, who you had on Talking with Tech, speak on our weekly CVI support group call.
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She had talked about eye gaze, which, with Thomas's visual impairments, we had not considered.
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We tried a device and were shocked to see how engaged he was.
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Now he has an accent 1400 with the eye gaze bar and is running Empower 28, one hit, with adapted symbols and coloring for his CVI.
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He does have a lot of seemingly random hits.
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And is still learning many of the symbols, but when he's motivated, she put an air in quotes, watch Winnie the Pooh, quote, you stop, bad, don't, end quote, uh, and go home.
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It is very clear to us that he can do it in the right situations and settings, as his parents were thrilled with the gains he's made, and he's a happier kid with his device.
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But we feel like we're hitting a point where we need to make some decisions on what to do going forward.
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The goal
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Was always to give him as robust a system as possible when it came to AAC and going to the 28 sequenced seemed to be the next step.
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Our SLP is so supportive of Thomas, but admits that CVI is not her strength.
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She was hesitant to move from one hit, but told me that she will support whatever we think is best because we know Thomas best and we do our research.
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This scared me because while I do feel I know Thomas best, I still feel I know very little.
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My CVI call support group question.
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Why I would make the boards more difficult, and if anything, I should probably take words away on the main screen and give more access to quick phrases.
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While no one had said that Thomas won't be able to use the sequence board, they both pointed to the struggles he still has with the one hit.
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I feel like I have learned that giving more access to robust systems is always preferable, but the feedback I'm getting from others is that my son is an exception to this rule.
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