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I have two students who needs devices to help them develop and maintain functional communication skills along with self regulation. It will be a huge benefit for each of them to have their own devices to enable them to practice these needed skills consistently throughout the day. Have you ever found it difficult to explain your wants and needs? My students struggle with this everyday--without the convenience of spoken language. One student will use the iPod to practice requesting it and using manners to access the things he wants. This increases his ability to regulate is emotions and practice functional communication skills. We take data on how often he does this and to what extent he needs prompts. The other student would use an iPad mini for very similar things. Many times students with limited verbal communication need functional ways to communicate. By providing them with these much needed opportunities we would be opening doors for them in ways that may have always been closed.

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I have two students who needs devices to help them develop and maintain functional communication skills along with self regulation. It will be a huge benefit for each of them to have their own devices to enable them to practice these needed skills consistently throughout the day. Have you ever found it difficult to explain your wants and needs? My students struggle with this everyday--without the convenience of spoken language. One student will use the iPod to practice requesting it and using manners to access the things he wants. This increases his ability to regulate is emotions and practice functional communication skills. We take data on how often he does this and to what extent he needs prompts. The other student would use an iPad mini for very similar things. Many times students with limited verbal communication need functional ways to communicate. By providing them with these much needed opportunities we would be opening doors for them in ways that may have always been closed.

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