Throwback Thursday: Past Posts about Pre-Intentional & Beginning Communication

The Strategy of the Month for December is about Pre-Intentional and Beginning Communication.  We knew this topic meant a lot to us because these learners are often overlooked or given up on just when they need help the most.  We didn’t realize how important it was to us, until we started ’rounding up’ our past posts and found so many. We are fortunate to have worked with many pre-intentional and beginning communicators because they often teach us the most, and we love learning.

Presuming Competence

• 3 Responses to Programs that Make Kids “Prove Worthiness” Prior to Providing Access to AAC
• Does AAC Benefit Individuals with Profound & Multiple Disabilities

Strategy of the Month

• Strategy of the Month: Supporting Pre-Intentional Communicators
• Breaking Through with Pre-Intentional & Beginning Communicators of All Ages
• Supporting Pre-Intentional Communicators
• Teaching Basic Requests
• Making it Work: The PrAACtical Side of Therapy to Teach Requests
• Literacy Lessons for Beginning AAC Learners
• The First 12: Getting Started with Core Words
• Core Words, Direct Vocabulary Instruction, & The Beginning Communicator
• Ideas About: Vocabulary Instruction & the Beginning Communicator
• Let Me Tell You Something: Narratives for the Beginning Communicator
• Building Participation with Older Learners
• Visual Supports in Therapy with Older Students & Adults

Support

• At the Very Beginning: Working with Pre-Intentional Communicators
• Throwback Thursday: Talk About Me 2
• PrAACtical Thoughts on Thematic Language Therapy

Requests

• 10 Premises for Teaching Requests to Beginning Communicators
• Choices in Choicemaking
• Teaching Basic Requests

Beyond Requests

• Beyond Requesting: Using Scripts to Teach Conversations
• Fun Friday: Commenting to the Max

Therapy Ideas

• Making it Work: The PrAACtical Side of Therapy to Teach Requests
• AACtual Therapy: Breakthroughs with Bubbles

Literacy

• A PrAACtical Literacy Activity for the Beginning Communicator
•  Literacy Lessons for Beginning AAC Learners

Vocabulary Instruction

• The First 12: Getting Started with Core Words
• Core Words, Direct Vocabulary Instruction, & The Beginning Communicator
• Ideas About: Vocabulary Instruction & the Beginning Communicator

Narratives

• Let Me Tell You Something: Narratives for the Beginning Communicator

Switches and Sequential Message Devices

• 5 Creative Ways to Use a Big Mack & Other Talking Switches
• Why We Love Sequential Message Devices/Apps

Older Learners

• Building Participation with Older Learners
• Visual Supports in Therapy with Older Students & Adults

Challenging Behavior

• PrAActical Thoughts on Challenging Behavior: Things to Think About

Videos

• Teaching Pre-Linguistic Communication to the Beginning Communicator