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iPads for Itaprica, Brazil - Fundraiser Update 1 Year on

11/3/2014

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As some of my readers would remember, a little over a year ago I went to Salvador in Brazil to deliver on a fundraiser for tech gear to help kids with special needs and hearing impairments. People's generosity and support was astounding to say the least and helped make an early morning idea into an awesome reality!
So, 1 year on, what has happened with these devices and has any impact been made on the kids in Brazil's lives?
I have shared some of the positive impacts below, as well as a detailed letter in English and Portuguese from the teacher of the students and how it has changed the way she teaches. Please excuse the less than perfect translation from Google Translate.

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Professora, Maria Helena teaching her students to sign using various iPad apps as visual supports.
This is just one of the many iBooks that Helena makes with her students using Book Creator to help them learn how to sign and develop other important skills.
Transcript in English from Google Translate 
This report aims to consider the pedagogical aspects of cognitive, affective and social processes that underlie the process of learning of children with special educational needs. It is important that children learn to express their ideas and opinions, actively participating in their own learning process inside and outside the school environment. So the school seeks to encourage students to learn gradually to select, assimilate, interpret, reformulate, intuit, estimate, explain and communicate. The work by Professor Maria Helena Guimarães P., held at ESA - Educational Support Services Specializing in the city of Itaparica and also in the city of Vera Cruz / BA has as complementary or supplementary role to student education through the provision of services, resources accessibility and strategies that eliminate barriers to their full participation in society and develop their learning. 
In September 2013, we received the visit of Professor Mathieu Australian Marunczyn here in Brazil, which brought us high-tech features and your experience in working with children with special educational needs, the "iPad". This instrument work contributed greatly to our pedagogical practice, providing a methodology and strategies in a fun and pleasurable way within the content studied. Our students have problems related to aspects of cognitive, psychomotor, affective and social field. This attractive new technologies provides a playful and pleasurable way our classes and consultations, it favors a broad and rich learning, overcoming the difficulties presented in each disability. IPads are with various educational applications such as educational games, Edu-Games, Books "book creator", math, writing, drawings, and language, where we can work: shapes, colors, motor coordination, logical thinking, alphabet letters, logical sequence, notion of equal and different memory and almost all translated into Portuguese, undoubtedly became a wonderful and essential feature in developments and advancements of students with disabilities. In the case of deaf students, iPads with sign language applications: ProDeaf, Hand Talk, and POUNDS, communication and assist in the acquisition and expansion of new vocabularies, both in pounds and in Portuguese. We know that deaf people need very diverse materials and wealth of images, pictures and adapted, Videos to facilitate their understanding and learning of content, since they are the coo relationship between print and sign, all within the iPad itself. In CAEE we have students with diagnoses of Intellectual Disability, Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, among others, with cognitive, language, learning, behavioral and interpersonal relationships, where we need to work on attention, concentration, memory, social interaction and iPads for sure collaborate extensively with the development and overcoming them. I would also report the successful dissemination of iPads in the continuing education of teachers who realize the municipalities. So, again, we just have to thank this partnership and opportunity and expect a next visit soon. Below are some photos to illustrate our work in school and beyond. We have many videos and recorded lectures as an archive, some made ​​by the students themselves, but I can not post due to size, alas! I hope I have contributed to your expectation and many, many thanks for everything. 

Vera Cruz, July 14, 2014
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Helena working with some sign symbol apps on the iPad mini.
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Once a reluctant learner, the little girl with pig tails has been making great progress at school since the introduction of iPads.
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Students working independently on iPads.
Original Transcript in Brazilian Portuguese 
O presente relatório tem como objetivo considerar os aspectos pedagógicos do processo cognitivo, afetivo e social que permeiam o processo de aprendizagens das crianças com necessidades educativas especiais. É relevante que a criança aprenda a expressar suas ideias e opiniões, participando ativamente de seu próprio processo de aprendizagem fora e dentro do ambiente escolar. Portanto a escola busca  estimular os alunos a aprender gradativamente a selecionar, assimilar, interpretar, reformular, intuir, estimar, explicar e comunicar-se. O trabalho desenvolvido pela professora Maria Helena P. Guimarães, realizado no AEE - Atendimento Educacional Especializado no município de Itaparica e também no município de Vera Cruz/BA, tem como função complementar ou suplementar a formação do aluno por meio de disponibilização de serviços, recursos de acessibilidade e estratégias que eliminem as barreiras para sua plena participação na sociedade e desenvolvimento de sua aprendizagem.

Em setembro de 2013, recebemos a visita do Professor Australiano Mathieu Marunczyn aqui no Brasil, que nos trouxe recursos de alta tecnologia e sua experiência na área para trabalhar com crianças com necessidade educativas especiais, os “iPad”. Esse instrumento de trabalho contribuiu bastante para nossa prática pedagógica, proporcionando uma metodologia e estratégias de forma lúdica e prazerosa  dentro dos conteúdos estudados. Nossos alunos apresentam problemas relacionados aos aspectos no campo cognitivo, psicomotor, social e afetivo. Esse atrativo das novas tecnologias proporciona de forma lúdica e prazerosa nossas aulas e atendimentos,  pois favorece um aprendizado amplo e rico, superando as dificuldades apresentada em cada deficiência.  São iPads com vários aplicativos educativos como: jogos pedagógicos, Edu-jogos, livros “book creator”, matemática, escrita, desenhos e língua, onde podemos trabalhar: formas, cores, coordenação motora, raciocínio lógico, letras do alfabeto, sequencia lógica, noção de igual e diferente, memória e quase todos traduzidos para português, sem dúvida,  tornou-se um recurso maravilhoso e  fundamental no desenvolvimentos e avanços dos alunos com deficiência. No caso dos alunos surdos, os iPads com aplicativos de língua de sinais: ProDeaf, Hand Talk e LIBRAS,  auxiliam na comunicação e na aquisição e ampliação de novos vocabulários, tanto na Libras como na Língua Portuguesa. Sabemos que os surdos necessitam de muito material diversificado e riqueza de imagens, gravuras e atividades adaptadas, vídeos para facilitar sua compreensão e aprendizagens dos conteúdos, já que fazem a coo relação entre gravura e sinal, tudo dentro do próprio iPad.  No CAEE, temos alunos com diagnósticos de Deficiência Intelectual, Autismo, Síndrome de Asperger, dentre outros, com problemas cognitivos, linguagem, aprendizagem, relações interpessoais e comportamentais, onde precisamos trabalhar a atenção, concentração, memória, interação social e os iPads com certeza, colaboram bastante com o desenvolvimento e superação deles. Também gostaria de comunicar o sucesso da divulgação dos iPads  nas formações continuadas de professores que realizo nos municípios. Portanto, mais uma vez, só temos a agradecer essa parceria e oportunidade e esperar uma próxima visita o mais breve. Segue abaixo algumas fotos para ilustrar nosso trabalho na escola e fora dela. Temos muitos vídeos e aulas gravadas como arquivo, alguns confeccionados pelos próprios alunos, mas não consigo enviar devido ao tamanho, que pena! Espero ter contribuído para sua expectativa e muito, muito obrigado por tudo.

Once again, I must express my sincerest appreciations to everyone who helped make this project a reality. I will probably be turning to you again for some minor support in getting some iPod Touch units to the students so they can use assistive apps like proloquo4text outside of school, effectively giving them a voice!

Cheers!

Mathieu
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