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Video of the Week: Looking at AAC Modeling

May 1, 2019 by - Leave your thoughts

Video of the Week: Looking at AAC Modeling

Aided language input and other forms of AAC modeling are often used to help individuals with complex communication needs learn in an immersive AAC environment. Today, we turn to Mara Rogers and her fellow AAC SLPs at the Northeast Intermediate Metro School District in Minnesota. In order to better support their students with AAC needs, they created a series of videos to demonstrate what aided language input looks like for beginning communicators. Enjoy! During Reading Creating Communication Opportunities Group Activities  Requesting Rejecting Thank you, Mara, Sara, Maggie, and Olivia for making these videos and to the Northeast Intermediate Metro School District for support of this dissemination effort. Direct Link to Intro Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC6q1B3jHEs

Video of the Week: Getting Started with AAC

April 24, 2019 by - Leave your thoughts

Video of the Week: Getting Started with AAC

Although readers of this site are generally quite familiar with the basics of AAC, most of us encounter families who are new to the AAC journey fairly often. In today’s video, we turn to SLP and AAC mom Dana Nieder who covers this topic from a very prAACtical perspective. Many thanks to Dana and to the Center on Technology and Disability for creating and sharing this archived presentation. This is a good one to enjoy and share with families who are just beginning to use AAC with their child.   You can learn more from Dana at her wonderful blog, Uncommon Sense. Direct Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=CmvJSM3QFJk

Video of the Week: How To Speak When You Don’t Have a Voice

April 17, 2019 by - 2 Comments

Video of the Week: How To Speak When You Don’t Have a Voice

We’re always grateful for the opportunity to learn with and from people who use AAC on a day-to-day basis. Today, we turn to the BBC to share the work of Jemima Hughes, a UK-based filmmaker, in collaboration with Screen South. Kudos to Jemima and the BBC for this video and the entire Rethinking Disability collection. Enjoy! Direct Link to Video: https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/how-to-speak-when-you-dont-have-a-voice/p07693kc?playlist=redefining-disability

Video of the Week: Strategies for Supporting AAC Team Buy-In & Implementation

April 10, 2019 by - Leave your thoughts

Video of the Week: Strategies for Supporting AAC Team Buy-In & Implementation

Helping teams get onboard in using supportive AAC strategies is a challenge throughout the world. In today’s featured video, we hear from AAC specialist Lauren Enders, who has been a PrAACtical AAC guest author on many occasions. There is a lot of prAACtical information in this presentation, organized and hosted by Dr. Kathy Howery and the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (ERLC) and the Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortia (ARPDC). We are grateful for their wonderful support of the AAC community through this archived webinar and to Lauren for this terrific information. Thanks again to the presenter and to ERLC for making this archived presentation available. Direct Link to Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA9iGljqMOM

Video of the Week: Compliance Is Not the Goal

April 3, 2019 by - Leave your thoughts

Video of the Week: Compliance Is Not the Goal

For our first video of April, which is designated as Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month, we’re turning to the Tedx stage to hear from Dr. Amy Laurent. An occupational therapist by profession, Dr. Laurent shares how her views of autism have changed in her presentation, Compliance Is Not the Goal: Letting Go of Control and Rethinking Support for Autistic Individuals. Enjoy! Direct Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=fx3cfzlCG_Q  

Video of the Week: Moving Beyond Single Words with AAC

March 27, 2019 by - Leave your thoughts

Video of the Week: Moving Beyond Single Words with AAC

Have you worked with AAC learners who’ve acquired a good deal of knowledge about their SGD but communicate primarily in single symbol messages? In today’s featured video, veteran SLP Susan Berkowitz provides helpful information on this topic. This archived presentation, AAC Users-Moving Beyond Single Words, was part of the wonderful AAC in the Cloud Conference hosted by Coughdrop in 2018. Handouts for this session can be downloaded here.  Heartfelt thanks to the entire team at Coughdrop for organizing their wonderful conferences and making these presentations available. Coughdrop continues to host this amazing online conference which is free to participants around the globe. You can register for the 2019 AAC in the Cloud Conference here. You can learn more from Susan at her blog, Kidz Learn Language. Direct Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8D_-yjcVhE

Video of the Week: AAC (Re)Boot Camp-It’s Not About the Technology

March 20, 2019 by - Leave your thoughts

AAC (Re)Boot Camp

Our video for today helps us think about some of the linguistic underpinnings of AAC systems. Hosted by Liberator Australia, AAC (Re)Boot Camp: It’s Not About the Technology, is presented by Russell Cross, who always seems to find a way clear and engaging way to discuss complex language concepts as they relate to AAC.   Many thanks to Russell and Liberator Australia for making this presentation available. Direct Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKTP9w69zXs

Video of the Week: Parent-Implemented AAC Intervention for Young Children

March 13, 2019 by - 1 Comment

Video of the Week: Parent-Implemented AAC Intervention for Young Children

Over 100 young children with AAC needs and their parents participated in research to look at the ways that their communication changed when families were trained to provide support. For today’s featured video, we turn to the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (ERLC) and the Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortia (ARPDC) to learn more about what research teams led by Drs. Maryann Romski and Rose Sevick found out. Learn about the methods and strategies they used in this archived webinar. Many thanks to the ERLC. the ARPDC, and Drs. Romski and Sevcik for making Parent-Coached Augmented Language Intervention for Toddlers available. Direct Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=373&v=rnILKJu_ai0

Video of the Week: Planning Your AAC Assessment

March 6, 2019 by - 1 Comment

Video of the Week: Planning Your AAC Assessment

Planning AAC evaluations can be confusing and overwhelming. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a tool to guide us in planning what sorts of assessment activities to do with the various individuals on our caseloads or in our classrooms? Today, we look at the AAC Assessment Planning Tool (APT) developed by the Grant Wood Area Education Agency AAC Resource Team team in Iowa. In this short video, you learn about the APT. Check out this slide deck for more on the APT. You can download the APT here.  Many thanks to everyone at Grant Wood AEA for creating and sharing this wonderful tool. Direct Link to Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NmgSSWqA8I&feature=youtu.be

Video of the Week: Supporting Emergent Communicators

February 27, 2019 by - Leave your thoughts

Video of the Week: Supporting Emergent Communicators

How can we help individuals who are in the earliest phases of communicative development become more effective in expressing themselves? In this video, Dr. Cynthia Cress, from the University of Nebraska, discusses ways that we can use the Communication Signal Inventory and other strategies to document current skill repertoires and develop intervention plans these beginning communicators. You can access the handouts here.  Many thanks to Dr. Cress and to the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium for creating this archived webinar and making it freely available.   Direct Link to Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26HM8K2Xu84