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Access Board: Empowering Communication for All

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Session description

Students design and build an interactive communication board using Arduino, which can be used by people with speech or motor disabilities. The board can have large, easy-to-press buttons that, when activated, emit pre-recorded sounds or phrases, aiding communication for non-verbal people.

Outline

The project focuses on empowering students as digital citizens and creators of knowledge, fostering their creativity and critical thinking through programming and electronics. At the same time, it promotes social inclusion and care for the environment, enabling students to understand and apply sustainability principles in their immediate environment.
This project not only educates students in technical skills, but also sensitizes them to the importance of creating solutions that benefit the entire community, including those with visual, motor or neurodivergent disabilities.
Students will interact with the audience by showing a video where the communication board will be shown, first when constructing it and then being used by our neurodiverse community.
Time of person to person presentation, about 5 minutes.

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Supporting research

https://abilityinclusiveresources.com/products/communication-board

https://www.essexice.co.uk/things-you-can-borrow/loan-resources/communication-boards/

https://www.inclusivecommunication.co.uk/

https://www.coughdrop.com/aac-communication-boards

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Presenters

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Ximena Aguirre Amador
Newland School
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Fernanda Tzitlalli Estrada Moreno
Newland School
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Trizia Jacqueline Mendieta Lozano
Newland School
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Isabella Pérez González
Newland School
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Natalie Paloma Velasco Olguín
Newland School
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Carolina Trujillo
Teacher
Newland School
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Claudia Berenice Garcia Tello
Counselor
Newland School
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Pilar Villasenor Hiriart
Principal
Newland School
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Susana Gomar
Counselor
Newland School

Session specifications

Topic:

Accessibility

Grade level:

PK-5

Audience:

School Level Leadership, Teacher

Attendee devices:

Devices required

Attendee device specification:

Laptop: Mac
Tablet: iOS

Subject area:

Interdisciplinary (STEM/STEAM), Special Education

ISTE Standards:

For Students:
Empowered Learner
  • Set learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process to improve learning outcomes.
  • Build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.
Digital Citizen
  • Demonstrate empathetic, inclusive interactions online and use technology to responsibly contribute to their communities.

TLPs:

Cultivate Belonging, Ensure Equity

Additional detail:

Student presentation
Related exhibitors:
3P Learning (Home of Reading Eggs, Mathseeds and Mathletics),
LEGO Education,
HMH,
Simple Solutions Learning

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