[humanser] Accessibility of documents with 2 pages in landscape mode

[Ginny Duff]

Does anyone know how to get an article that is sent electronically as a pdf and has 2 pages side by side in landscape mode into an accessible format??

Ginny

Dr. V. Duff
Clinical Director
West End Assertive Community Treatment Team
St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto
Lecturer, University of Toronto

On Sep 10, 2017, at 16:00, Kaiti Shelton via HumanSer <humanser at nfbnet.org<mailto:humanser at nfbnet.org>> wrote:

The other thing working in my favor is that while my facility is
training me according to CBT, the school seems very much behavioral.
There are two or three aids and a fantastic teacher in the class, so
usually I can hear them say things like, "Joey, sit down please," or
they will walk over to encourage or help a child to participate if
they are not following directions.  If nothing else, that might be
enough for me to at least ask after the session what behaviors
prompted their intervention if they don't use specific language with
the child about what they are doing.  The good thing about being in
schools is that I will most likely always be able to ask a teacher or
an aid for clarifying information, especially with the little guys who
have more hands on deck in the classroom.

On 9/10/17, Ericka via HumanSer <humanser at nfbnet.org<mailto:humanser at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
That's really great what they're doing! I wish I had some advice for you
Katie. Listen and pay attention to what the kids without disabilities are
doing and saying. That will kind of help you judge what is age-appropriate
behavior. I have some vision so I can't give you such good advice but
typically advancing preschoolers are pretty active and Chattery. They are
also able to share and sit still for more than a couple seconds.
Two-year-olds and threes are very vocally independent (Sally do it !) and
want to do things by themselves, help you, and able to walk depending on how
close to age 2 they are. They should be able to ask questions at three and
four. I don't know exactly how old chronologically your little ones are.
These are just a few examples. It sounds like yours may not be able to speak
much but they may grant and reaction to a touch or sound. You have to
remember that the more severely multiply handicapped they are the more any
sound is positive. You might be able to hear foot movements and hand
movements. It all depends on so many things! What an exciting opportunity
for you!

Ericka Short
from my iPhone 6+

On Sep 10, 2017, at 1:10 PM, Kaiti Shelton via HumanSer
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Will do.  I'm feeling pretty comfortable with the assessment tool for
use with my slightly older students, but this is because I am used to
working with children who are elementary and early middle school age
already, and those groups are much smaller.  Groups for music therapy
are ideally not supposed to be super big anyway, but my one class of
little guys is 9 kids strong, which is on the bigger side, and they
are more significantly disabled than any of my other groups as well on
the whole.  The good thing is that I will be with them for the whole
school year whereas I see the kids at one of my schools for only a
semester, so I'm sure it is just going to take some time.

I should add that this is an inclusion classroom, so three of the
children are typically developing peers inserted into the
self-contained class specifically to serve as models for social skill
development for the other kiddos.  I'm very excited to see this
classroom model in action throughout the year.

On 9/10/17, Justin Williams via HumanSer <humanser at nfbnet.org<mailto:humanser at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
I certainly interested in how you do that, please keep me posted.  Your
opportunity sounds great.
Justin

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Subject: [humanser] Assessments with children with disabilities

Hi all,

I'm 2 weeks into my clinical music therapy internship now, and I'm
loving
it
so far.  I've met most of my adult clients and all of the students I
will
be
working with, and have several group sessions as well as individuals at
4
local schools.

In my group sessions, I will be using an assessment tool called the
Music
Therapy Social Skills Assessment, or the MTSSA. It is specifically
designed
to assess social skill development in group settings for children with
neurodevelopmental disorders.  As the vast majority of the children in
my
groups have Autism, most of our goals are either social or
communication-based.  I have yet to see this assessment tool myself, but
my
supervisor has explained that different elements such as reciprocal
behavior
and level of engagement are rated on a scale from 1 to 8, with 8 being
the
most engaged or socially developed.  The tool also takes stock of the
type
of play each child is engaging in, such as solitary, parallel, onlooker,
etc.  I know my work is different, but I was curious if anyone else
working
with children might need to gather similar data.  Groups of children
this
young in this population are new for me, so I am trying to explore ways
I
can accurately gauge things like type of play and engagement
independently
before I have to get started actually documenting.  My supervisor is
wonderful and he is going to be guiding me through the assessment
process
in
the first half of the internship before I assess in January and February
on
my own, but if I could get feedback from another blind person to aid in
my
learning and to come up with some possible adaptations for myself it
would
be useful.  Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Kaiti Shelton

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