More Ideas for Using Visual Supports to Build Conversational Skills

August 5, 2012 by - Leave your thoughts

More Ideas for Using Visual Supports to Build Conversational Skills
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Cohesion is a tough concept for many of our learners who are developing their AAC skills and struggling to build relationships. In this week’s featured video, Joel Shaul, from Autism Teaching Strategies, discusses how to use two metaphors for building cohesive conversations. One is the idea of links in a chain and the other is the girders of a building. Of course, we are big fans of the use of visual supports whenever we talk and teach.

Although the focus here is learners with ASD, we’ve used this and similar strategies many kinds of learners. Hope you enjoy this informative video.

More Ideas for Using Visual Supports to Build Conversational Skills

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