Hope you are coping well with the busy holiday season! Here a couple of posts from our prAACtical week. Monday: PrAACtically December: Resources for A Year of Core Vocabulary Wednesday: Video of the Week: Teaching Self Regulation Skills
When working with learners who use AAC, we often overlook instructional strategies or programs designed for students without disabilities or those with high incidence disabilities. That means we may be missing out on approaches that may be effective for our students. In fact, many AAC learners can benefit from well-designed instruction that was developed for individuals with different kinds of challenges. In this week’s featured video, we return to one of our favorite sources of instructional information, Kansas TASN, to learn more about teaching young children to build their self-regulation skills. Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak discusses a 5-step process for teaching self-regulation to young children during play, giving ample information on how to implement each step. While this approach may not be ideal for all AAC learners, it may well be helpful for some of the students with whom you work. Many thanks to TASN and KSDE Early Childhood, Special Education and... [Read More...]
Busy week? Here’s a handful of posts you may have missed. Monday – PrAACtical Teaching in the ASD Classroom: Shared Reading Wednesday – Video of the Week: AAC Access for Individuals with Significant Motor Limitations Through Partner Assisted Scanning Thursday – AAC and ASD: Beyond Scripting
Hope you had a good first week of AAC Awareness Month. The fun continues with the USSAAC Twitterchat on 10/13 at 7:00 pm EDT (UTC−04:00). New to Twitterchats? You can learn more here. You can also join the 8th annual AAC Chat and Read-a-Thon October 14-15. In the meantime, here are some posts that you may have missed. Monday: 13 Ways to Celebrate AAC Awareness Month Tuesday: Teach Me Tuesday: CoughDrop Wednesday: AAC and Visual Supports for Storms and Hurricanes: 10 Useful Resources Thursday: Pete the Cat, Rockin’ in My School Shoes: AT Recipes for Success Here are some more Facebook images for anyone who wants to use them to promote awareness of AAC.
Meetings, therapy, assessments, paperwork, teaching, and more. It’s been a busy week for many of us. Here are some AAC posts you may have missed. Monday – Site of the Month: Project Core Tuesday – Teach Me Tuesday: Snap Scene and Pathways Thursday – PrAACtically Reading with Karen Natoci: Apples
We are so happy to welcome back SLP Karen Natoci who graciously agreed to continue writing about how she uses interactive book reading to build language skills with beginning communicators. You can see her earlier posts in the PrAACtically Reading series here. In this post, she shares activity ideas for two books on apples. You can learn more about Karen and download her materials toward the bottom of the post. Enjoy! ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Books: Apples by Ken Robbins and Apples for Everyone by Jill Esbaum Adapted and simplified Powerpoint Book Apples by Karen Natoci Core Vocabulary focus: here, in, where Additional Vocabulary focus: Body parts; red, round, yellow, green, COMMUNICATION Matrix (Rowland, 2009) Level: I-VII (all levels!) ————————————————————————————————————————————- It is September and apple time! I chose to feature these books from which to adapt material suitable for students with complex communication needs. I have a simplified power point... [Read More...]
Here are some posts you may have missed. Monday – AAC: More Teaching, Less Testing Wednesday – AAC Intervention That Teaches More and Tests Less: Thoughts on Implementation Thursday – PrAACtical AT Recipes for Success: Shared Reading with ‘Bear Wants More’
Hope you had a wonderful, AAC-filled week. Here are some posts you may have missed. Monday – PrAACtical Resources: Book-related Communication Boards Wednesday – Video of the Week: Teaching Clients to Program Their Own AAC Devices Thursday – On Friendship: Supporting AAC Learners
Parents, therapists, and educators share the common goal of helping AAC learners be as independent as possible and assert control over their own communication systems. One step toward this kind of self-advocacy is to teach our clients to add messages to their own AAC systems. In this video, Lindsey Cargill demonstrates how she introduced this to Katya. Enjoy! Direct Link to Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3x333cIy0