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Category: Intervention
Ghana 2013: Inspired by the Unit School Community
Today we visited our first Unit School. It is at the Effiduasi Methodist School where Belinda Bukari, with whom Dr. Crowley has been working for six years, teaches students with intellectual disabilities and autism. Through her hard work in establishing educational services for children with intellectual disabilities in Ghana, Belinda has helped to reduce the social stigma against people with disabilities. Dr. Crowley has supported this effort by providing classroom supplies and professional development sessions. We were all excited to see the school grounds for the first time, which we had seen before only in pictures and videos.
Ghana Winter 2013: Narrative Stories
This video tutorial offers instructions and examples of how to create personal stories to address specific behaviors that may negatively affect a person’s social interactions. This video is part of a professional development retreat held at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, West Africa. The Ghana Ministry of Education Division of Special Education’s “Unit Schools” are 2 to 3 classrooms for students with intellectual disabilities and autism within a general education school. There are currently 25 Unit Schools throughout Ghana with approximately 1,200 students. Lindsay Milgram, CCC-SLP, introduced these narrative stories, which are adapted from Carol Grey’s Social Stories, to 70 “Unit School” teachers of students with intellectual disabilities and autism and teachers of students in general education. Read More
AAC Market Cards in Ghana, West Africa for Students with Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
Catherine Crowley and Miriam Baigorri lead their Teachers College Columbia University speech language pathology graduate students on annual trips to Ghana, West Africa. There, they work in hospitals and schools for people with communication disabilities including those with autism, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, hearing loss, and speech and language disorders. Read More
Ghana Winter 2013: Professional Development Retreat
Dr. Catherine Crowley and Miriam Baigorri lead their graduate students in speech-language pathology at Teachers College Columbia University to Ghana each year to provide free services to people with communication disorders and to build capacity and exchange knowledge and skills with their colleagues in Ghana. This January 2013 three-day professional development retreat focused on Augmentation and Alternative Communication (AAC) including narrative stories, adapted from Carol Grey’s excellent work in “Social Stories”, word walls, and general education AAC materials, i.e., the calendar, schedules, and math. Fifty teachers from Ghana’s Unit Schools attended. Unit Schools are schools of about 2 or 3 classrooms for students with intellectual disabilities within general education schools. Ten general education teachers attended along with dignitaries from Ghana’s Ministry of Education Division of Special Education including Mr. Thomas Otaah, Mr. George Pat Takie, and Mr. Kobina Baidoo, and Ms. Sara Stryker of the United States Embassy in Accra, Ghana. Read More
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