A PrAACtical Assistant
This will definitely make you wish everyone had a Mike! Watch this to smile, feel good and to be inspired.
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Tagged With: ASD, assistants, employment, microbusiness
Visual Immersion Program
In this week’s featured video, we go to the AAC-RERC to get an in-depth look at a systematic approach to visual supports for people with ASD. Howard Shane and Meghan O’Brien explain the basic premise of the Visual Immersion Program’s approach, the communicative functions it is designed to support, and the key principles and procedures. The webcast is broken into three parts, with accompanying slides and transcripts.
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Tagged With: ASD, Howard Shane, Meghan O'Brien, VIP, Visual Immersion Program, visual support
Video of the Week: The Van Dijk Approach to Child-Guided Assessment
Getting good assessment information on learners with multiple disabilities, hearing, and vision loss is difficult, to say the least. Today we travel to the Netherlands to learn from Dr. Jan Van Dijk, who has pioneered an approach to working with individuals who have deafblindness. This series of webcasts, produced by Perkins School, discusses the theoretical underpinnings and practical aspects of the Van Dijk approach to child-guided assessment.
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Tagged With: assessment, deafblind, hearing loss, multiple disabilities, Van Dijk, vision loss
Video of the Week: Using Video Modeling
Video modeling is an empirically supported intervention strategy hat more of us could be using in our clinical work. This week we feature some examples of video modeling for some common communication behaviors. We love the fact that these focus on adults. Kudos to the team at Villa Esperanza Speech and Language Center for making and sharing these videos. Asking for a Break Saying Goodbye
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Video of the Week: The Importance of Using Visual Supports
We’re always looking for great materials to share with colleagues and parents about topics related to AAC. This video by OCALI (the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence) has been one of our favorites. It gives a brief overview of why visual supports are so important in the educational and clinical services provided to individual with ASD and other developmental disabilities.
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Tagged With: ASD, clinical rationale, visual supports
PrAACtical Puppet Power
We are huge fans of using music in AAC intervention and have learned so much from talented music therapists who really understand how to use their medium to support language learning. In this video, Ryan Judd, of the Rhythm Tree, discusses why hand puppets can be such a valuable addition when singing with language learners. He demonstrates the method with a child with Williams Syndrome who is practicing the use of prepositions. It’s clear that this strategy has lots of prAACtical potential. –
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Tagged With: music, music therapy, puppets, singing
A Language Lost
In this week’s video, Dr. Melanie Fried-Oken discusses how AAC can benefit individuals who are losing their language abilities due to Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). She reviews the disorder, provides great examples, and clearly explains AAC strategies that can be used to support these patients. We love the skillful way in which Dr. Fried-Oken balances current research with prAACtical guidelines for goals and therapy in this helpful video.
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Tagged With: aphasia, primary progressive aphasia
Ted Carr on Challenging Behavior in ASD
We are honored to share this talk by the late Dr. Ted Carr, who was a giant in the area of positive behavior support. In this guest lecture, he discusses basic underpinnings in challenging behavior in individuals with ASD and provides his vision of what it will take for major advancements in treatment to occur.
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Tagged With: ASD, Challenging Behavior
How Does It Feel to Not Be Understood?
Reuben explores this topic and finds words of wisdom expressed by people who speak in many ways. But mostly, he guides each of us to ask ourselves “What kind of listener am I?”
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Tagged With: comprehend, first person account, interaction, interview, listening
A PrAACtical Look at Video Modeling
The research base for using video modeling as a tool to help AAC learners understand what to do is well-documented. The folks at SCAAC-N make it look easy! Here are a few that they shared for communicating while doing a job (shredding paper). Asking for ‘more’ Asking for a break Asking for help Want to know more about using video modeling in your own practice? Here’s a great resource document from the National Professional Development Center on ASD. Want more info on how to do this with mobile technology? Tony Gentry from Autism Center at Virginia Commonwealth University explains in this video.
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Tagged With: EBP, mobile device, video modeling