About This Week
Welcome to Week 10 of your Stepping into AAC journey! This week, we continue to explore ways to fit AAC support into daily life.
You will explore the following concepts this week:
- Making Space for AAC: Learn some concrete ways to infuse AAC support into conversations, activities, and routines.
- Getting Dressed with AAC: Look at how AAC can be infused into a simple daily routine as we dive into another language walk-through.
- Using AAC to Foster Self-determination: Personal autonomy is a key ingredient in a rich and fulfilling life. Explore the role that AAC can play in empowering our learners and facilitating the development of self-determination.
- More Strategies to Build AAC Use: What is scaffolding, and how can we leverage it to facilitate communication and language learning?
AACtion Steps
Week 10 AACtion Steps
Signposts
Making Space for AAC
Supporting AAC learners in embedding AAC across daily activities is a valid and important challenge. Creating immersive language learning experiences with AAC is crucial. Making space for AAC throughout the day can be more realistic and successful than finding dedicated time. Making space for AAC may feel awkward at first, but it ultimately makes supporting AAC learners easier and demonstrates the value of AAC.
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Language Walk Through – Getting Dressed
A language walkthrough involves being intentional about thinking through and anticipating language opportunities for a task. It is important to consider the beginning, middle, and end of the task, as well as opportunities for requesting, commenting, describing, and sharing information. This video focuses on the daily routine of getting dressed.
Self-Determination
Self-determination is the key to intrinsic motivation, and understanding it helps us become better communication partners. It involves the innate needs for autonomy, belonging, and competence. Applying the principles of self-determination enhances our role as advocates, promotes natural and respectful engagement, and empowers AAC learners to be decision-makers in their lives.
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Scaffolding AAC Learning
This video discusses the challenges and misconceptions around prompting and scaffolding AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) learning. It emphasizes the importance of supporting AAC learners without relying on predetermined outcomes through modeling, pausing, observing, and following their initiation to scaffold a turn to use AAC.
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Travelog
Week 10 Travelog
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