India Ochs's guest appearances

India Ochs

Talking With Tech AAC Podcast

Laura Hayes

Kim Albrecht

Brian Whitmer

Lateef McLeod

Laura Taylor

Erin Sheldon

Sarah Lockhart

Shannon Graham

Chris Ellis

Mark Brown

Mike Hipple

Megan Roberts

Carrie Baughcum

Kevin Williams

David Tobin

OwlTail

Mark Nichols

Andy Smidt

Lory Chrane

Tali Kellerstein

This week, we present Small Talks VI! “Small Talks” are short clips recorded with a previous guest that highlights one strategy or one idea in seven minutes or less. In this episode of Small Talks, we hear from Andy Smidt, India Ochs, Lory Chrane, Mark Nichols, and Tali Kellerstein!    Before the interviews, Chris and Rachel discuss Chris’s “design challenge” he helped create for some 5th graders to help figure out how to attach 3D printed AAC keyguards (i.e. overlays) to AAC devices without needing to remove the case (for warranty reasons). Chris talks about how this authentic problem got the students really excited, and he shares lots of great online resources for getting started with 3D printing keyguards (see links section below).    On this episode:   🗣️ Andy Smidt shares about universal design for learning, and how she is helping people see how UDL is something they already do in the classroom and there are benefits for educators as well as students in making the learning environment more universal.   🗣️ India Ochs talks about “tone policing”, a practice of criticizing the emotional manner in which a person has expressed a point of view, rather than addressing the substance of the point itself. Tone policing can occur when people are having a discussion about disability and ableism - by criticizing the person’s “tone”, they can avoid discussing any important changes.    🗣️Lory Chrane discusses Symbol-It,  (https://symbolspeak.co/symbol-it/) a paid app that will translate verbal speech directly into symbols that correspond to the person’s AAC.   🗣️ Mark Nichols shares three of his favorite AT solutions right now, including enabling live captions for all videos, using “accessibility checkers” like Grackle (or ones embedded in Office) to make sure our files are as accessible, and converting the text files we assign to students into audio files for them.    🗣️Talk Kellerstein describes how she uses set up and clean up of games to introduce more opportunities to practice using speech or language. She also describes why she avoids games with batteries.   Links from this week’s episode:   Volksswitch.org - 3D printing resource for AT, including keyguards   Jennifer Schubring (@jjschubring on Twitter) has lots of great info about 3D printing keyguards here: https://www.buildingaac.com/post/3d-printing-keyguards-an-epic-journey   Tinkercad.com - create digital 3D printing designs    “No, We Won’t Calm Down: Tone Policing is Just Another Way to Protect Privilege”, an informative comic on Tone Policing shared by India Ochs   Visit talkingwithtech.org to access previous episodes, resources, and CEU credits that you can earn for listening to TWT episodes!   Help us develop new content and keep the podcast going strong! Support our podcast at patreon.com/talkingwithtech!

This week, we present Small Talks VI! “Small Talks” are short clips recorded with a previous guest that highlights one strategy or one idea in seven minutes or less. In this episode of Small Talks, we hear from Andy Smidt, India Ochs, Lory Chrane, Mark Nichols, and Tali Kellerstein!  Before the interviews, Chris and Rachel discuss Chris’s “design challenge” he helped create for some 5th graders to help figure out how to attach 3D printed AAC keyguards (i.e. overlays) to AAC devices without needing to remove the case (for warranty reasons). Chris talks about how this authentic problem got the students really excited, and he shares lots of great online resources for getting started with 3D printing keyguards (see links section below).  On this episode: 🗣️ Andy Smidt shares about universal design for learning, and how she is helping people see how UDL is something they already do in the classroom and there are benefits for educators as well as students in making the learning environment more universal. 🗣️ India Ochs talks about “tone policing”, a practice of criticizing the emotional manner in which a person has expressed a point of view, rather than addressing the substance of the point itself. Tone policing can occur when people are having a discussion about disability and ableism - by criticizing the person’s “tone”, they can avoid discussing any important changes.  🗣️Lory Chrane discusses Symbol-It,  (<a href="https://symbolspeak.co/symbol-it/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://symbolspeak.co/symbol-it/</a>) a paid app that will translate verbal speech directly into symbols that correspond to the person’s AAC. 🗣️ Mark Nichols shares three of his favorite AT solutions right now, including enabling live captions for all videos, using “accessibility checkers” like Grackle (or ones embedded in Office) to make sure our files are as accessible, and converting the text files we assign to students into audio files for them.  🗣️Talk Kellerstein describes how she uses set up and clean up of games to introduce more opportunities to practice using speech or language. She also describes why she avoids games with batteries. Links from this week’s episode: <a href="http://Volksswitch.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Volksswitch.org</a> - 3D printing resource for AT, including keyguards Jennifer Schubring (@jjschubring on Twitter) has lots of great info about 3D printing keyguards here: <a href="https://www.buildingaac.com/post/3d-printing-keyguards-an-epic-journey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.buildingaac.com/post/3d-printing-keyguards-an-epic-journey</a> <a href="http://Tinkercad.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tinkercad.com</a> - create digital 3D printing designs <a href="https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone-policing-and-privilege" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “No, We Won’t Calm Down: Tone Policing is Just Another Way to Protect Privilege”</a>, an informative comic on Tone Policing shared by India Ochs Visit <a href="http://talkingwithtech.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">talkingwithtech.org</a> to access previous episodes, resources, and CEU credits that you can earn for listening to TWT episodes! Help us develop new content and keep the podcast going strong! Support our podcast at <a href="http://patreon.com/talkingwithtech" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/talkingwithtech</a>!

Small Talks VI: Andy Smidt, India Ochs, Lory Chrane, Mark Nichols, and Tali Kellerstein

This week, Chris interviews the incredible India Ochs! India is a brilliant social justice advocate, lawyer, educator, and board member for USSAAC and ISSAC who is also a lifelong AAC user. India describes her incredible journey with AAC, how she has used her many skills to advocate for social justice, why she volunteers so much of her time to the disabled community, and what she sees are the impacts of systemic racism on the field AAC (e.g. lack of vocabulary words to talk about racism).   Before the interview, Chris and Rachel respond to several comments from listeners about their recent banter about PECS. Some listeners said PECS works for them while robust AAC  doesn’t work for them. Chris and Rachel note that, if robust AAC hasn’t worked, maybe the implementation hasn’t been done in a systematic way. They also respond to the idea that PECS is a necessary stepping stone to robust AAC, and provide some strategies for demonstrating early success with robust AAC when it doesn’t look like AAC is “working” yet.   Key ideas this week:   🔑 While the systematic nature of PECS implementation can encourage some people who would like a step-by-step guide, in some cases it causes students to “stall out” at a particular stage because they are required to demonstrate certain skills before moving on the next skill.   🔑 A simple paper and pen can be the most effective form of AAC for some literate AAC users.    🔑 It is difficult to find symbols for words like racism, anti-racism, African-American, Black person, hispanic, Martin Luther King, Jr on many AAC devices. Developers need to bring in experts on Black history and anti-racism to tell us what vocabulary we need to add to our devices.   Help us develop new content and keep the podcast going strong! Support our podcast at patreon.com/talkingwithtech!   To listen to this episode, search "Talking with Tech" in your podcast player of choice or go to www.talkingwithtech.org/episodes/india-ochs   Links from the episode:   AAC Speaker Connection: https://speaker.ussaac.org/   Silent Auction benefiting USSAAC that ends October 15th: https://www.silentauctionpro.com/bidonlinegrid.php?groupId=1860 or email Virtualauction@ussaac.org   India's Blog: https://intrepidoaks.com/   Xceptional AAC Leaders Book with Chapter by India 

This week, Chris interviews the incredible India Ochs! India is a brilliant social justice advocate, lawyer, educator, and board member for USSAAC and ISSAC who is also a lifelong AAC user. India describes her incredible journey with AAC, how she has used her many skills to advocate for social justice, why she volunteers so much of her time to the disabled community, and what she sees are the impacts of systemic racism on the field AAC (e.g. lack of vocabulary words to talk about racism). Before the interview, Chris and Rachel respond to several comments from listeners about their recent banter about PECS. Some listeners said PECS works for them while robust AAC  doesn’t work for them. Chris and Rachel note that, if robust AAC hasn’t worked, maybe the implementation hasn’t been done in a systematic way. They also respond to the idea that PECS is a necessary stepping stone to robust AAC, and provide some strategies for demonstrating early success with robust AAC when it doesn’t look like AAC is “working” yet. Key ideas this week: 🔑 While the systematic nature of PECS implementation can encourage some people who would like a step-by-step guide, in some cases it causes students to “stall out” at a particular stage because they are required to demonstrate certain skills before moving on the next skill. 🔑 A simple paper and pen can be the most effective form of AAC for some literate AAC users.  🔑 It is difficult to find symbols for words like racism, anti-racism, African-American, Black person, hispanic, Martin Luther King, Jr on many AAC devices. Developers need to bring in experts on Black history and anti-racism to tell us what vocabulary we need to add to our devices. Help us develop new content and keep the podcast going strong! Support our podcast at <a href="http://patreon.com/talkingwithtech" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/talkingwithtech</a>! To listen to this episode, search "Talking with Tech" in your podcast player of choice or go to <a href="http://www.talkingwithtech.org/episodes/india-ochs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.talkingwithtech.org/episodes/india-ochs</a> Links from the episode: AAC Speaker Connection: <a href="https://speaker.ussaac.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://speaker.ussaac.org/</a> Silent Auction benefiting USSAAC that ends October 15th: <a href="https://www.silentauctionpro.com/bidonlinegrid.php?groupId=1860" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.silentauctionpro.com/bidonlinegrid.php?groupId=1860</a> or email <a href="mailto:Virtualauction@ussaac.org">Virtualauction@ussaac.org</a> India's Blog: <a href="https://intrepidoaks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://intrepidoaks.com/</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZYTC9LQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=indiaochs07-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B08ZYTC9LQ&amp;linkId=c03c056fe036693d0441aa082f1fd0e8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xceptional AAC Leaders Book with Chapter by India </a>

India Ochs: Lawyer, Social Justice Advocate, Mother, and AAC User