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How We Do It: The Talk Flock – Taking Care of Caregivers

July 1, 2019 by - 2 Comments

How We Do It: The Talk Flock - Taking Care of Caregivers

How can we better support parents and caregivers of children with AAC needs? Meredith Laverdure and Jaime Lawson, who are SLPs and former co-workers, wanted to do more for the families they served. Meredith is currently a doctoral student at Old Dominion University.  Her clinical and research interests include building communicative competence for children with complex communication needs with group interventions, as well as family- and community-level support.  Jaime has predominately worked with pediatric clients, focusing on AAC/AT evaluations and intervention. Her clinical and research interests include enhancing communicative opportunities for children across settings and in various social settings, group intervention, family-centered therapy, and communication partner training. In this post, Meredith and Jaime share their experiences in developing The Talk Flock, a parent education and support group. Enjoy! The Talk Flock: Taking Care of Caregivers As speech-language pathologists in the outpatient pediatric setting with a busy AAC/AT clinic, we tried to... [Read More...]

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AAC Posts from PrAACtical Week #10: March 2019

March 10, 2019 by - Leave your thoughts

AAC Posts from PrAACtical Week #10: March 2019

Happy Sunday, AAC friends! Here are some posts you may have missed in your busy week. Monday – PrAACtical Resources: AAC for Caregivers Tuesday – AAC Link Up Wednesday – Video of the Week: Planning Your AAC Assessment Thursday – Crowdsourcing AAC “Better” Practices: The AAC Agreements ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Want to do some more AAC exploration? Here are a few suggestions. Observational Assessment of Beginning Communicators Helping Beginning Communicators Expand Their Sentence Length Breaking Through with Emerging Intentional and Beginning Communicators of All Ages Core Words, Direct Vocabulary Instruction, & The Beginning Communicator A PrAACtical Literacy Activity for Beginning Communicators

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