I worked with my colleague to develop the LINCing routine that we would use during the Disability Awareness event in June. We worked together on this since we were developing terms using federal definitions. As we developed the routine we talked about the difference between the negative connotations between the definitions and how we wanted to prompt the audience towards a more positive reminding word and LINCing story. At first, my colleague was very apprehensive, feeling uneasy about how to ensure that she would get the answers that she would like. I assured her that with the right prompting the audience/students would respond accordingly. We also decided to set this up as a powerpoint so that if the responses were not what we were hoping for, we could pull up the answers as we went. (We had each area animated) I reminded her the significance of the cue-do-review, which she understood from the onset. The trainings were repeated several different times during the week, so I had the opportunity to model the routine for her two times before she had to "fly solo". As always, the audience's/student's responses were better than we could have hoped for.
