Assistive, Augmentative, Alternative: Talking Tech with Jennifer Kraft (Part I)

Well, this is a super comprehensive oral story.

We really appreciate it.

Dan is a master at asking questions, so he's got a list of at least 200 that he's generated here.

We're going to need to schedule a four-hour block.

I'm kidding.

What a wealth of experience you've got.

One of the things that I've always said as a practitioner when I consult with schools and one of the things I say to our staff when we train is I'm really good at the individual contingencies.

But group contingencies are a whole other level of artistry and expertise.

So you have that.

Before you moved into the more individualized gaming, you've kind of played back and forth between that and having to consider somebody's need for assistive technology as an individual.

But if it's going to be effective, it has to fit into the greater environment every time.

So what I mean, again, what a wealth of experience.

I'm sure it was a lot of it was happenstance, which is what I love about these stories.

But it's all sort of culminated.

Like you said, this all culminates and stays relevant to what you're doing now.

It absolutely does.

And some of it's coming back.

So, like, stepping away from the assistive tech stuff and now being able to step back into it, that's one of the things that I'm really excited about to get back into that world of assistive technology and the AAC.

I did a preschool summit that autistic little learners... did last week or the week before and this woman has built this business on creating materials for preschool preschoolers with autism and everything that i watched so far i sat and just shook my head and i was like i was doing this stuff 20 years

ago yeah

like this is these are she was making adaptive books and i was like I did that.

I even went as far as adding textures to my books and everything else.

I don't know what's the word.

I have horrible word finding sometimes.

That's okay.

Well, this is a super comprehensive oral story.

We really appreciate it.

Dan is a master at asking questions, so he's got a list of at least 200 that he's generated here.

We're going to need to schedule a four-hour block.

I'm kidding.

What a wealth of experience you've got.

One of the things that I've always said as a practitioner when I consult with schools and one of the things I say to our staff when we train is I'm really good at the individual contingencies.

But group contingencies are a whole other level of artistry and expertise.

So you have that.

Before you moved into the more individualized gaming, you've kind of played back and forth between that and having to consider somebody's need for assistive technology as an individual.

But if it's going to be effective, it has to fit into the greater environment every time.

So what I mean, again, what a wealth of experience.

I'm sure it was a lot of it was happenstance, which is what I love about these stories.

But it's all sort of culminated.

Like you said, this all culminates and stays relevant to what you're doing now.

It absolutely does.

And some of it's coming back.

So, like, stepping away from the assistive tech stuff and now being able to step back into it, that's one of the things that I'm really excited about to get back into that world of assistive technology and the AAC.

I did a preschool summit that autistic little learners... did last week or the week before and this woman has built this business on creating materials for preschool preschoolers with autism and everything that i watched so far i sat and just shook my head and i was like i was doing this stuff 20 years

ago yeah

like this is these are she was making adaptive books and i was like I did that.

I even went as far as adding textures to my books and everything else.

I don't know what's the word.

I have horrible word finding sometimes.

That's okay.