we have had the same experience. we have one guy who devised his own and he
chunked it in alphabetical order like the rhyme. A long time ago Janet Scott
from SCTCI gave me a really good one that a therapist had devised in
Scotland. It was a phased in chunking which had the ability to say first if
it was a vowel or consonant and then took off from there to save time. It
works really well with some people and is quicker but dont know of any
studies to actually verify this. Dont really know where this came from but I
have found it useful. Janet may know more
Deborah Jans
Coordinator
KEYCOMM
Lothian Communication Technology Service
Oaklands School Annexe
40 Broomhouse Crescent
Edinburgh
EH11 3UB
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> Subject: Alphabet "chunking" for partner-assisted auditory scanning
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> Posted on behalf of Karen Lewis (I will forward replies to Karen):
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> Hi,
> I was wondering if anyone could help me out at all. I am looking for some
>
> evidence, or case studies or even personal experience from people who have
>
> used partner assisted auditory scanning with clients. My searches have
> come back with very little.
>
> Currently I am working with a client and different therapists have been
> approaching this in different ways. The main difference is in how the
> sections of alphabet presented are 'chunked'. We have found he needs to
> hear all the letters, rather than be told e.g. 'A to G' etc. However
> strategies used range from using the chunks from the children's rhyme for
> learning the alphabet (abcdefg - hijklmnop - qrstuv - wxyz) to presenting
> the letters 5 at a time. But - is there any evidence as to what is
> quickest/most effective?
>
> Our client is very compliant and goes along with whatever he is asked by
> different people and has not expressed a preference. We could do time
> trials of some sort but if we can spare him this, as his energies are
> limited, then all the better.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Karen Lewis
> Communicate
> Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Centre
> Hunters Road
> Newcastle-upon-Tyne
> NE2 4NR
> Tel: 0191 2195640/1
> Fax:0191 2195647
>
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