Video is New Tool in Teaching Children With Autism (Centre Daily Times)
Georgia Company realizes dream, gives back
The TV Teacher, LLC
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 — Local Georgia mom, Susan Ellis, struggling to help her frustrated five-year-old son with Autism learn to write the alphabet, finally created her own solution. After two years of occupational therapy, she realized she must teach her son, Ryan, through the tool he responds to best: television. Together with her son's occupational therapist, Marnie Danielson, they made a three-minute video and Ryan began to write a letter in minutes!
"I videotaped Marnie reciting a rhythmic letter chant she had used in therapy before, but it was the accompanying visual demonstration that finally made the 'connection'," says Ms. Ellis. "We added props and skits to make it fun, and that's what made it a winner!"
Ms. Danielson and Ms. Ellis became business partners and created The TV Teacher, LLC(TM). They produced a professional DVD writing program that is now being used by parents, school systems and therapy clinics from Florida to California. "We receive the most incredible testimonials!" says Ms. Danielson. "Children with Autism, Down syndrome, ADD, etc -- all struggling for years, now enjoy writing because of what we created."
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27 Dec 2007, 10:17 am
