Patricia Switzer and Bev Lacusta beside the SARAW workstation
Bev Lacusta of the Parkland Society for Aid to the Mentally Handicapped in Yorkton wrote the following article for Update, the regular publication of the Saskatchewan Association of Rehabilitation Centres (SARC). The article discusses that agency’s use of a computer system to assist adults in developing their literacy and numeracy skills.
Parkland Society for Aid to the Mentally Handicapped is in its fourth month of running the computerized Speech Assisted Reading and Writing program (SARAW), and a computerized Speech Assisted Math program (SAM), according to Program Adminstrator Bev Lacusta, and the programs are a big success.
The SARAW and SAM programs are two new programs offered by the Parkland Society for Aid to the Mentally Handicapped (PSAMH). These programs commenced October 25, 2000 and provide ten hours of instruction per month to the eighteen individuals participating in the program. These individuals are presently enrolled in the Parkland Society’s Supportive Living Program and Group Homes.
SARAW and SAM, as they are known, are talking computer programs developed by the Neil Squire Foundation. These programs are designed to teach basic reading, writing and math skills to adults with disabilities in order to create opportunities for independence.
Patricia Switzer and Bev Lacusta beside the SARAW workstation
