{"id":164,"date":"2011-05-10T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2014-07-16T22:26:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T22:26:58","slug":"ils-integrated-listening-system-or-incomprehensible-little-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/ils-integrated-listening-system-or-incomprehensible-little-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"ILS &#8211; Integrated Listening System, or Incomprehensible Little Secrets&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Written by Luke Hsieh, Community Access Center, Riverside<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I am back to my favorite field of Assistive Technology after about eight months of doing Special Education Advocacy. My conclusion? Computers are way more compliant than school districts in the <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Inland Empire<\/st1:place>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Anyway, the latest and hottest news for people with Autism seems to be something called an Integrated Listening System. From a strictly technical standpoint, the whole thing appears to be a glorified MP3 player. But some school districts seem to swear by it, and if it is good enough for the Californian school districts, it may be good enough for me. But first, I need to do some digging for information. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">What&#8217;s surprising about the system has been that other than the officially sanctioned testimonies and research articles, shockingly little is known. That does not go well with my stereotypical notion of the American public. Usually when something does not work, the allegation of fraud and scam fly off the roof, and god forbid, civil lawsuits. So, looking at it from this angle, no negative publicity equals good publicity. Although there are tons (gigabytes) of therapeutic listening CDs on Amazon, there is no integrated listening system, not even a sample. So we are left with little more than informerciously (yay, I invented a new word) miraculous testimonies, and the fact that some school districts are using it. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">So, if you know something, anything, about the efficacy of the seemingly glorified mp3 player, I need to know if it helps you or your child and to what degree it has helped. Please share your thoughts in the comment box below. &nbsp;<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Luke Hsieh, Community Access Center, Riverside I am back to my favorite field of Assistive Technology after about eight months of doing Special Education Advocacy. My conclusion? Computers are way more compliant than school districts in the Inland Empire. Anyway, the latest and hottest news for people with Autism seems to be something&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}