How Do You Teach Others To Implement AAC Facilitation Skills?
We’ve learned many ways to do this, but here’s one of our favorites. The idea originally came from a presentation by Dr. Beth Foley, Dean of the School of Education at Utah State University.
The process is as elegant as it is simple.
- I do it, you watch me.
- I do it, you help me.
- You do it, I help you.
- You do it, I watch you.
Do you have a favorite strategy for helping others become good AAC partners? We’d love to hear about it.
Filed under: PrAACtical Thinking
Tagged With: Beth Foley, partner training
This post was written by Carole Zangari
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I have had great success in using video self-modeling to teach aided language strategies to communication partners. Even if the newbie partner exhibited only 4 seconds of good skills in a 15 minute video, the 11 minutes of not-so-great clips were deleted and the 4 beautiful seconds of “giving language back” was shown to the team of trainees as a model of excellence. With 10 people in my communication partnership project, from the very beginning, we had a few seconds of beautiful facilitation from each person adding up to a powerhouse training video. Very quickly, skills began to blossom in everyone. Including me.