Hello Inscapers,
I’m writing to let you know that our centre of neuropsychology, cognitive and language rehabilitation (Sinapsy., placed in Rome) choose Inscape Beta Version as an instrument to develop a special project. The aim is to provide one of our patient of a tool for his communication needs. The boy is eighteen years old and lives in Rome; since he was a child has been followed by our centre because of his multiple disabilities (severe mental retardation, motor coordination disorder, absence of speech, dehambulation difficulties). Actually he uses a naturalistic sign language and many different tools for his communication needs.The whole project follows the general guidelines of Augmentative and Alternative Communication trend, that suggest a variety and ecologically oriented communication instruments and techniques to reach many communication partners. Together with the family and school teacher we were looking for a more powerful instrument that could put together all the single tools and introduce us in the world of story telling, we made a google research using keywords like “storytelling, social stories” and we’ve been lead to your website. So we started to use the Beta Version of Inscape to build naturalistic stories for Luca, using videos and photo of his real environment. We choose Inscape despite of other instruments and entered in the Open Community to share with you the project. We wish to share our results inside the community and find help and ideas for the project. Did someone does something like that?
You’re welcome for suggest us new way and analyze our proposal.
By the way, I’m Luca’s psychologist

Francesco Toninelli

There will be an INSCAPE Training Course for Open Community members in Salzburg, July 4-6, 2008. During that couse participants will have the chance to get to know the INSCAPE software by developing an own INSCAPE story. Please have a look at www.summerschool.europrix.org for details.

The developed stories can be submitted right after the course to the INSCAPE OC Special Award of the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards at www.toptalent.europrix.org.