Facilitating Emotional and Communication Expansion with Talkido
KPS4 Parents
Camarillo, CA, USA
M.A. Ed. Psychologist
Anne M. Zachry
Young Adult
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The user is a young adult with a seizure disorder, intellectual disabilities, autism, and vision loss. It is difficult to implement the typical visual schedules and icons used with autistic learners and vision loss.
Challenge
Highly individualized program of intervention is created for him using the Talkido system to teach emotional vocabulary and facilitate ability to label and discuss feelings in individual counseling sessions.
How was Talkido implemented?
The tactile icons are created representing different emotional vocabulary terms that are each labeled with Talkido tags.
The songs had been using social scripts as lyrics that incorporate the emotional vocabulary terms.
With AI-generated music, it is provided with a multi-modal approach to developing his emotional vocabulary and functional communication skills.
Outcomes
Screen-free Implementation
Creating audio labels with a screen-free way is game-changer experience.
Suitable for Any Configuration
The client’s world expanded to a whole new level of functional independence and engagement.
Educator Testimonial
"Talkido is opening up my client’s world to a whole new level of functional independence and engagement with the world around him. We all collaborate around this solution to open even more doors of opportunity for him going forward."
Anne M. Zachry
M.A. Ed. Psychologist at KPS4Parents