September AAC Year of Core Vocabulary Resources: PreK Through High School

In 2013, when schools and other clinical programs were expanding their emphasis on teaching core vocabulary words, Robin Parker and I developed a set of resources for families and professionals that included symbol cards, sample sentences to model, activity suggestions, and more. All of these were based on a small set of core words for each month (see that post here). We followed that with a second set of Year of Core Vocabulary Word resources for a new list of words (click here for that post).

Over the years, the resources were expanded and grew to include a wonderful series of calendars with daily activity suggestions developed by AAC SLP and co-founder of Talking AAC, Rachael Langley. There were many other contributors over the years who added to these efforts. In 2020, a new series was launched, School Year of Core Vocabulary Words, authored by guest contributors Michaela Sullivan, Alisa Lego, and Beth Lytle. More recently, Michaela Sullivan and Lindsay Dougherty authored a School Year series for older students. Each of these is packed with helpful resources that can be used by SLPs, teachers, and families.

We’re reprising those posts for anyone interested in following along and utilizing the resources developed by many people in the AAC community. You can access the resources for September words by clicking on the images below.

Set 1 & 2 Words

School Year of Core Vocabulary Words

 

School Year of Core Vocabulary Words – Older Student Lessons