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'Outside world' brought to Woodlands students

[Photo Caption #1] Julius Erdelyi shows students at Woodlands School how to put money in a parking meter. Boys are sitting in a mock school bus.

[Photo Caption #2] Boys line up to practice crossing "street"

The Columbian, January 22, 1972

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New world of color

A gift to Woodlands School from the Telephone Pioneers of America, this color coordinator machine helps children recognize colors and trains their memories. Andy Pratico, TpA Fraser Council president' left and Joe Brannigan, B.C. Chapter TPA president, watch as young Vickie tries out the new machine. [See column at right]

The kind of wonderful, silent work that is being done constantly by many groups and associations dedicated to helping the community is demonstrated by the recent actions of the Fraser Valley Council of the Telephone Pioneers of America.

This organization has presented the Woodlands School with two unusual aids, a Beeper Ball and a color coordinator. The Beeper Ball purchased from England, by the club, is an actual ball designed especially for blind children. It emits an audible signal, enabling blind students to follow the ball by sound.

The color coordinator [shown in the picture at left], was built by telephone apprentice Gary Cross of New Westminster. It is composed of a set of three colored buttons and a screen. When the child pushes one of the colored buttons, the corresponding color appears on the screen, and by pushing two of the buttons, for example blue and red, the coordinated appears, in this case, purple. The machine will help children recognize colors and train their memories as well as visual perception, according to Don Arden, chairmen of the community services of the club.

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A talking doll and talking teddy bear that will assist in speech therapy for emotionally disturbed children, have been presented to Woodlands school in New Westminster by the Telephone Pioneers of the Lions Gate Council in Vancouver.

The parent organizations of the Pioneers, the Telephone Pioneers of America, is celebrating it's 60th year of organization.

B.C. Tel's Peter Atherton, president of the lions gate Council, and Tom Tucker, B.C. Tel toll plant supervisor, made the presentation to Woodlands patients Dawn, 10, and Benjie, 12, and Dr Pauline Huges, superintendent of the school.

The talking toys, built by Tom Tucke, are one of the many projects being undertaken during Pioneers Jublee year, a period dedicated to renewed effort in the field of community service.

It is beleaved that this is the first time this type of theopy has been attempted in British Columbia.

The two children, like many others taking speech stimulation programs, will meet teddy and his blond talking companion in the classroom. Other afflicted children will meet the talking toys in therapy where, it is hoped, they will find the toy easier to respond to than a human being.

The doll and the teddy bear each contain a sensitive microphone which picks up the child's voice and relays it to the therapist on the other side of the one-way mirror.

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Talking doll and teddy bear are admired by, from left, Ben jie, Dr. Pauline Huges, Tom Tucker, Dawn and Peter Atheron

Columbia photo by Basil King

THE COLUMBIAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1971

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GYRO AIDS WOODLANDS

New Westminster Gyro Club has donated a Betamax video tape recorder valued at $1,800 to Woodlandes School. Gyro members Walt MacDonald, chairman of the objective committee, right, and Club president John Simpson demonstrate the new equipment to left to right, Dr Pauline Huges, director; Bob Crorin, executive director, Dept. of Human Resources and Mrs Val Adolph, coordinator of volunteers.

Columbian photo by Basil King

THE COLUMBIAN OCT 2 1978