August 7, 2019
by Carole Zangari -
How can we help AAC users who aren’t crazy about books to engage and enjoy shared reading? AAC SLP Chana Feinstein has lots of wisdom and prAACtical ideas to share, courtesy of AAC in the Cloud & the wonderful team at CoughDrop. You can download Chana’s handout here. Want to learn more from Chana? Check out her previous presentation on engaging young learners here.
Filed under: Video of the Week
Tagged With: Chana Feinstein, engagement, shared reading
September 5, 2018
by Carole Zangari -
“He has an AAC device but he doesn’t use it much.” “I have great toys but she doesn’t seem to like any of them.” “How can I build language if he doesn’t want to interact with me?” “The only time she uses her SGD is to ask for things.” Connecting with clients who are beginning to use AAC and helping them use their communication tools is a challenge in some clinical and educational settings. Today, we revisit a session from CoughDrop’s 2nd Annual AAC in the Cloud conference held last spring, to get some prAACtical advice about building engagement and interaction. In our featured video, SLP Chana Feinstein of All Kinds of Voices provides concrete suggestions that will help our beginning communicators want to communicate and use their AAC devices for a variety of purposes. We are grateful to CoughDrop for hosting this wonderful conference and allowing us all to... [Read More...]
Filed under: Video of the Week
Tagged With: AAC implementation, beginning communicator, Chana Feinstein, CoughDrop, intervention strategies