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AAC Posts from PrAACtical Week #13: March 2019

March 31, 2019 by - Leave your thoughts

AAC Posts from PrAACtical Week #13: March 2019

Happy Sunday, AAC friends! Can you believe March is almost over?! We’ll have lots to share for Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some posts from our prAACtical week. Monday – PrAACtically April: AAC Resources for A Year of Core Words Tuesday – AAC Link Up Wednesday – Video of the Week: Moving Beyond Single Words with AAC Thursday – When Materials Aren’t Effective in AAC Teaching: 5 Things to Try :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Have a little more time? Here are a couple of additional posts that you might find interesting. Let’s Read! Getting to the Core of Earth Day Let’s Create! Getting to the Core of Earth Day Let’s Go Outside: 5 PrAACtical Ideas Implementing Object-based Schedules in the Classroom Activity Schedule AACtion

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Fun Friday: 5 AAC Tips for Talking About Halloween After it is Over

November 1, 2013 by - Leave your thoughts

5 AAC Tips for Talking About Halloween After It is Over

Language learning involves talking about events in the past, present, and future.  Since Halloween is over, it is a perfect opportunity to help AAC users talk about past events. Here are 5 tips for getting started with ALL learners. Use a weekly or monthly (calendar) schedule to ‘remember’ Halloween or if you are sticking to core words to remember the “great day” or “bad day” depending upon the experience. Use photos of the Halloween festivities to discuss what happened, what everyone did, and you could even go for the best and/or worst part of the day.   Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast Halloween experiences. This can be done with comparing 2 people or 2 groups.  For some learners, you can use images to put Halloween things that everyone saw or did while others you will need text only.  Then, a  discussion of what each student/group did that... [Read More...]

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