January 14, 2015
by Carole Zangari -
Everyone knows that when it comes to skill development for students with significant disabilities, it’s important to provide a great deal of practice. Making that happen, however, can be challenging, particularly as students get older. Take a look at these ideas shared by the Provisional Inclusion Outreach Program of British Columbia Minstry of Education. Quick Time Required: http://www.pisp.ca/video/videos/High%20School%20Participation.mov
Filed under: Video of the Week
Tagged With: AT, British Columbia, classroom, inclusion, older learners, older students, significant disabilities
January 7, 2015
by Carole Zangari -
As they move beyond the primary school years, AAC learners sometimes need help making and maintaining friendships. This video has some helpful tips.
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Tagged With: friendship
December 28, 2014
by Carole Zangari -
“Behavior is communication.” We’ve all heard it, but knowing what to do help a learner communicate effectively in less stressful, more socially appropriate ways is a complex issue that is best addressed through teamwork and collaboration. In this video, Rob Haupt shares some basic thoughts on Functional Communication Teaching from an ABA perspectivie.
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Tagged With: Challenging Behavior, FCT, Rob Haupt
December 21, 2014
by Carole Zangari -
How do you incorporate aided language input while reading books? There are lots of ways to do it. Here’s one of them.
Filed under: Video of the Week
Tagged With: aided language input, aided language stimulation, book reading, Communicare, reading
December 14, 2014
by Carole Zangari -
Ready to dig deep on core vocabulary and learn more about studies done to support the approach? Check out these videos by Russell Cross from PRC and Elaine Holtham from Aroga Technologies as part of their AT with Beer series. Bottoms up! Trigger alert: Some articles use terminology that was accepted practice at the time they were published but are now considered unacceptable and/or offensive. Part 1 Part 2
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Tagged With: Aroga Technologies, core language, core vocabulary, Russell Cross
December 7, 2014
by Carole Zangari -
Do you get questions about effective AAC practices for individuals with autism? This video, featuring Dr. Joanne Cafiero, provides a helpful review of some of the issues. Many thanks to AssistiveWare for hosting this video.
Filed under: Video of the Week
Tagged With: ASD, EBP, Joanne Cafiero, research
November 30, 2014
by Carole Zangari -
Vocabulary selection is a huge responsibility. In this video, we learn about the issues surrounding this important task and discover some strategies for approaching it. Thanks to Dr. Rae Sonnenmeir for her work in this series. You can see some of the other posts here and here.
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Tagged With: Rae Sonnenmeir, vocabulary selection
November 23, 2014
by Carole Zangari -
We’re always happy to find resources that can help our prAACtical learners deal with complex emotions. In this post, we return to the work of Joel Shaul, author of the Autism Teaching Strategies site. We saw the first 4 videos in this post. Video 5: Anxiety – Predicting Without Proof Video 6: When Your Mind Gets Stuck on Sad Video 7: When Your Mind Blames Too Much Video 8: Rigid Thinking
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Tagged With: CBT, emotions, feelings, Joel Shaul
November 16, 2014
by Carole Zangari -
It’s a great day to see AAC strategies in action. Today, the AAC Chicks from Dynamic Therapy Assoiates are back with another prAACtical video about using aided language input in conversation. You can see more of their work here. Direct link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUl8kD53NQg
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Tagged With: AAC Chicks, aided language input, Conversation, Dynamic Therapy Associates
November 9, 2014
by Carole Zangari -
We’ve really been enjoying the mentoring videos featuring Gail Van Tatenhove, Phillip Wickman, and Faye Warren. In this week’s video, we learn how to use the ASK method. These videos are a project of BeCome:AAC.
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Tagged With: BeCome:AAC, mentoring