December 11, 2016
by Carole Zangari -
How are you holding up in this busy holiday season? Here are a couple of AAC posts you may have missed. Monday: How We Do It: AAC in the Special Education Classroom Wednesday: Video of the Week: Supporting People with Significant Communication Challenges in Medical Encounters Thursday: Supporting AAC Learners in Emergent Writing: 5 Helpful Resources
December 4, 2016
by Carole Zangari -
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
November 27, 2016
by Carole Zangari -
Monday – AAC Learning at ASHA 2016: Day 1 Wednesday – Video of the Week: Improving Literacy Outcomes for Individuals with ASD and Limited Speech Thursday – A Day for Giving Thanks Friday – PrAACtical Resources: AAC Partner Training Strategies
November 20, 2016
by Carole Zangari -
It’s been a week full of AAC at ASHA 2016 in Philadelphia. I hope to post some handouts from top conference presentations soon, but in the meantime, here are some posts you may have missed. Tuesday – PrAACtical Resources: Using Visual Systems to Promote Communication Wednesday – Video of the Week: Preserving Self with Message Banking When Losing Ability to Speak Thursday – Connecting with Caregivers to Support AAC Learning: 3 Things to Try
November 6, 2016
by Carole Zangari -
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
October 23, 2016
by Carole Zangari -
Welcome to the final week of AAC Awareness Month! Here are a few posts you may have missed. Tuesday – Teach Me Tuesday: Chat Fusion Wednesday – Video of the Week: Guided Access Thursday – Sometimes I Feel Sunny: AT Recipes for Success from CHoR
October 16, 2016
by Carole Zangari -
AAC Awareness Month is in full swing! How have you been celebrating? Monday – Site of the Month: Core Word Classroom Wednesday – Video of the Week: Alternate Pencils Friday – “But he doesn’t like anything!” 5 Tools for Identifying Motivators and Reinforcement
October 2, 2016
by Carole Zangari -
As many of you know, October is AAC Awareness Month, a time when the AAC community comes together to build understanding of complex communication needs in their communities, schools, and workplaces. It’s exciting to see how this movement is growing in every part of the world. If you share news of your events on social media, please tag us (@PrAACticalAAC on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) so that we can help you spread the word of your AAC awareness activities. Also, feel free to use the buttons and banners in this post in your own social media profiles or posts. In the meantime, here are links to a few posts you may have missed. Monday: Five Places for Shared AAC Materials Wednesday: Video of the Week: Shared Writing and AAC Thursday: PrAACtically October: A Year of Core Vocabulary Resources Social Media Images (PC users: right click to save image to your computer; Mac users: control... [Read More...]
September 18, 2016
by Carole Zangari -
A handful of AAC posts from the past week. Monday – Five AAC and Related Resources to Explore Wednesday – Video of the Week: Reading with PODD Thursday – PrAACtical AT Recipes for Success: Shared Reading with ‘Bark, George’
August 28, 2016
by Carole Zangari -
Here are a couple of AAC posts you may have missed. Monday: LiveBinders: 5 Online Notebooks on AAC Implementation Wednesday: Video of the Week: AAC Around the World with the 2016 ISAAC Film Festival