Syble Hopp School is an education option for children with Intellectual Disabilities, Autism, and students with physical disabilities. This school services Early Childhood to the age of 21.
Students worked with Speech Therapists to take turns, activate reading of books, learning cause and effect, and to make music. Generally, the therapist works one on one with a student to structure the use and fade the prompting as they learn to do it on their own.
The goal of the session was to increase independence with access of a device, to take turns, and to have an activity for leisure time that they can do independently,
The Therapist took students one at a time. The equipment was set up and modelled for the student. The students gradually interacted with the activity. As increased practice happened the students’ independence increased. Some students used 2 cosmoids to read a book with the therapist. Other students were set up with one cosmoid and worked on cause-and-effect activities with faded prompting. Other students were set up with 2-3 cosmoids to play music on the app.
The Therapist had students that engaged quickly and caught on to the activity. Other students needed adult support to stay engaged with the activity.
Our biggest challenge was keeping the cosmoids in place so that they were in reach of the students that were working with them. We have enjoyed using the cosmoids with the app and plan to continue to use them for therapy as well as for reading and leisure.
Being able to personalise Cosmo for each student worked really well, as everyone has their own learning style, and everyone has their own favourite song!It’s a fantastically versatile piece of kit and thankfully it’s really robust as well.
