Aditya - Autistic nonverbal savant academics

This video is dedicated to everyone who has worked with him especially staff of NSSED, District 34 in Glenview IL USA. Also staff from NSSRA, Glenview, Skokie and Wilmette Park Districts. It takes the whole village to achieve something like this. This kid is completely nonverbal.

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Education

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• autism
• autistic
• sports
• savant
• genius
• health
• medicine
• physical
• science
• engineering
• communications
• dynavox
• computer

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Activate a dynavox macro from a button

Add an Activate a Macro Behavior to a Button

You can attach a macro to a button by using the Activate a Macro

behavior. Whenever a button with this behavior is selected, a specific

macro will be launched.

To add an Activate a Macro behavior to a button, follow these steps:

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1. Select the green Modify button in the title bar. The button will turn

red when it is selected.

2. Select the button you want to use to launch the macro. The Modify

Button menu will open.

3. Select the Behaviors button. The Behavior Editor menu

(page 8-2) will open.

4. If there are any behaviors currently listed in the Steps viewport,

select them and then select the Delete button.

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5. Select the Behaviors drop-down menu. The menu will expand to

display all the behavior categories.

6. Select the Common option.

7. Select Activate a Macro in the Behaviors viewport.

8. Select the Add button. The Activate a Macro window will open.

The names of the available macros will be displayed in the

viewport.

9. Select the name of the macro you want to assign to the button.

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10. Select the OK button to close the Activate a Macro window. The

Activate a Macro behavior and the name of the selected macro will be displayed in the Steps viewport in the Behavior Editor menu (in

standard communication mode).

11. Select the OK button to close the Behavior Editor menu. The

Activate a Macro behavior will be listed beside the Behaviors

button in the Modify Button menu.

12. Select the OK button to close the Modify Button menu.

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15. Select the OK button to close the Behavior Editor menu. The

behavior(s) you selected will be displayed in the viewport beside

the Behaviors button in the New Macro menu.

16. Select the OK button to close the New Macro menu. The new

macro will be displayed in the viewport of the Macro Editor menu.

17. Select the OK button to close the Macro Editor menu.

18. Select the OK button to close the Tools menu.

The new macro is now available for the current user.

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c. To move a highlighted behavior down one position in a multistep

list, select the Move Down button. Keep selecting this

button until the step is appropriately repositioned.

d. To make other changes to the highlighted behavior, select the

Edit button. Make the appropriate changes to the window that

opens, and then select the OK button to return to the Behavior

Editor menu.

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b. To move a highlighted behavior up one position in a multi-step

list, select the Move Up button. Keep selecting this button until

the step is appropriately repositioned.

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13. To add additional behaviors to the new macro, repeat steps 10

through 12.

14. If you want to edit, reposition or delete an existing behavior in the

macro, select it in the viewport and then complete the rest of this

step.

a. To delete the highlighted behavior, select the Delete button.

The step will be instantly deleted from the Steps viewport.

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12. Select the Add button. If no further information is needed to enact

the behavior, the behavior name will be added to the Steps

viewport. If further information, such as text or the name of a page

or other file is needed, a window will open and prompt you to enter

the necessary information. Use the tools that are presented in the

window to enter the information and then select the OK button to

return to the Behavior Editor menu.

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10. Select the Behaviors drop-down menu and then choose one of

the behavior categories that are displayed. The Behaviors

viewport will display the names of behaviors within the selected

category.

11. Select one behavior in the Behaviors viewport. You may need to

use the scroll buttons on the right side of the viewport to see all the

listed behaviors for the selected category.