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Rachel Madel: AAC in Telepractice
AAC in the Cloud 2020 Conference
4.61 out of 1736 ratings
(19650 total views)
Session by Rachel Madel about using telepractice for AAC
Emily Diaz & Lauren Greenlief: The Known (And Unknowns) of AAC & Gestalt Language Processing
AAC in the Cloud 2022 Conference
4.43 out of 646 ratings
(7061 total views)
This session addresses what we know (and don’t know) about everyday clinical practice for our AAC users that are Gestalt Language Processors. We will share both family and professional experiences. While also addressing the research, identifying speaking/non-speaking GLPs, AAC app feature matching, the theory of programming, & implementation.
Susan Berkowitz: Moving Beyond Single Words with AAC
AAC in the Cloud 2018 Conference
3.78 out of 596 ratings
(2906 total views)
Moving AAC users beyond single words can be a difficult transition. Too often we focus on requesting as the objective, and on using single labels for items the user wants. But we need to grow language as well, and move students from single words through to complete, linguistically appropriate sentences.
Lily Konyn: Supporting Gestalt Language Processors to Keep Scripting
AAC in the Cloud 2023 Conference
4.27 out of 494 ratings
(3095 total views)
Therapy for GLPs often focuses on moving them towards word-based language generation. While this is an important skill to have, it is also important to support their neurotype by helping them feel confident communicating with their scripts. This session considers the benefits and methods to support this for AAC users.
Maribeth Plankers: Let’s Read & Write with AAC
AAC in the Cloud 2021 Conference
4.27 out of 435 ratings
(1024 total views)
The use of literacy is a lifelong tool! The foundation for literacy is language. Communicators who rely on augmentative alternative communication should routinely utilize literacy for reading, writing and communication. Let’s explore the wealth of options to increase language use, reading comprehension, and written language for the AAC user.
Shannon Archer: FUNctional Activities for AAC using games, books, and everyday activities.
AAC in the Cloud 2022 Conference
4.07 out of 426 ratings
(1671 total views)
Effective teaching and implementation of AAC can be both fun and functional for educators and families. In this session we will share strategies for modeling and expanding expressions using games, books, and everyday activities that are FUNctional! Let's have fun and get communicating!
Sabina LaClair & Beth Warren: Getting Started - Ideas for Introducing AAC
AAC in the Cloud 2022 Conference
4.16 out of 397 ratings
(1363 total views)
Are you new to implementing AAC or do you feel you need new ideas for supporting AAC users? Introducing AAC to an individual takes a team, so let’s work together to give you ideas and examples for how to start the process of introducing AAC. Multiple examples and resources will be provided for starting the journey with AAC.
Jaime Lawson, Melonie Melton, & Heather Patton: The Power of One SLP-- What Can’t We Do?
AAC in the Cloud 2023 Conference
4.13 out of 397 ratings
(969 total views)
This session will be provided by four SLP’s who share their secrets to providing productive and engaging AAC group sessions. Top tips and favorite activities will be provided within a real time group session. Find out how we manage various AAC systems and juggle data collection while maintaining engagement.
Jill Senner & Matt Baud: Educating School Staff to Model AAC in the Classroom
AAC in the Cloud 2022 Conference
4.18 out of 360 ratings
(4346 total views)
School staff instruction in AAC has numerous benefits to students, including increasing communicative turns and facilitating longer utterances. However, in-service style trainings rarely result in increased AAC use in the classroom. Participants will learn the benefits of staff education, benefits of modeling AAC and elements of a successful partner education program.
Kelsey Peterson: Using a Collaborative Approach to AAC to Achieve Team Buy-In
AAC in the Cloud 2022 Conference
3.9 out of 359 ratings
(801 total views)
Without ample support and collaboration across environments, AAC abandonment can occur. This session will focus on strategies for getting caregiver and professional buy-in by utilizing a collaborative approach. Attendees will be empowered with research-based information, tips, and strategies to effectively implement AAC as a team.
Keynote Address Jane Farrall: Shared Reading -- Let’s Be Interactive!
AAC in the Cloud 2020 Conference
4.66 out of 346 ratings
(6186 total views)
Shared reading is fundamental for anyone implementing literacy programs with emergent readers and writers – and good shared reading has strong ties with language development, and use of AAC. This workshop will discuss how we can support AAC users at different language and emergent literacy levels– supporting them to develop their language, communication skills and print concepts.
Laura Hayes: The 1 AAC Strategy You May be Missing
AAC in the Cloud 2023 Conference
4.34 out of 335 ratings
(1203 total views)
Aided language input, prompting, creating opportunities—the are all well known strategies that are often discussed when it comes to supporting AAC development. However, how often do you and the communication partners that support AAC users talk about the importance of acknowledgment? In this session, we will dive into the importance of communication acknowledgement and the role it plays in language and socio-emotional development. Participants will learn about how to use it as a tool in their toolbox to enhance communication with AAC users.
Anne Page: 10 Ideas for AAC Virtual Modeling
AAC in the Cloud 2020 Conference
3.85 out of 326 ratings
(6468 total views)
Anne shares 10 great ways to incorporate modeling & support into virtual connections with AAC users.
Randi Brown: Supporting AAC Users in the Classroom
AAC in the Cloud 2024 Conference
4.21 out of 322 ratings
(993 total views)
This session equips the speech language pathologist to support AAC users and their teachers. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to train school staff members in regards to AAC. Attendees will also be given ideas, strategies, and tips to effective push-in classroom services to increase overall AAC engagement.
Laura Hayes: AAC Users -- Stimming or Not Stimming, That is the Question
AAC in the Cloud 2021 Conference
4.39 out of 321 ratings
(5354 total views)
This session will review emergent communication behaviors and abilities when trialing dynamic voice output systems. It will expand upon the idea of what "stimming" looks like, how professionals and communication partners can redefine this term, and how to respond and support individuals with complex communication needs when they display "stimming" behaviors.
Susan Todd: Modeling AAC Every Day- Beyond the “I want” Funk
AAC in the Cloud 2019 Conference
4.04 out of 313 ratings
(939 total views)
The best way to teach AAC is to speak AAC. As an SLP serving many families with a consumer of AAC, I am often encouraging parents, caregivers, and other providers to incorporate AAC into daily routines. The goal of this presentation is to provide a basic overview of language development and instruction, aided language modeling, and providing examples of two-word phrases to model during every-day activities.
Shannon Archer: Building Language with AAC -- Going Beyond Requesting
AAC in the Cloud 2023 Conference
4.23 out of 303 ratings
(923 total views)
Do you work with AAC users who struggle to move beyond single words? This session will provide actionable strategies for building language beyond basic requests. Learn how to use an SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) framework to prompt and model expanded utterances, as well as other cues to support communication growth. We'll also showcase fun tasks and activities for building SVO/SVL utterances. Join us to improve your AAC teaching skills!
Jennifer Clark, Robby Vickery & Kyle Delahanty: Empowering Paraeducators to Use Students' AAC Systems
AAC in the Cloud 2019 Conference
4.16 out of 303 ratings
(616 total views)
Instructional assistants often spend the most time with students; however, they frequently do not get the training needed to effectively implement augmentative alternative communication with students with complex communication needs. This presentation offers examples of trainings and strategies we used to train instructional assistants in our Colorado Department of Education Facility School.
Vicki Haddix: Hands-On Activities for Teaching AAC to Professionals: Why and How
AAC in the Cloud 2019 Conference
3.99 out of 302 ratings
(1495 total views)
We talk a lot about the importance of training in AAC, but are only starting to talk about how to do that training. With years of teaching AAC to pre-service and in-service SLPs and teachers, Vicki has become a firm believer in hands on activities and she will share some here.
Sharon Redmon: Aided Language From Research to Practice -- the How & Why of Modeling AAC
AAC in the Cloud 2020 Conference
4.08 out of 301 ratings
(380 total views)
Aided Language Input: How to! AAC & Aided Language Stimulation Modeling: Teaching teachers, paras and parents the Why and How to modeling AAC. We learn language by having language modeled. Aided Language Stimulation (ALS) is seen as best practice in the field of AAC and is often one of the first strategies suggested when beginning AAC with individuals with Complex Communication Needs. In this hour-long webinar, we not only will learn about why modeling symbolic communication is so vital to AAC users but why it is so hard to implement and then learn simple techniques to teach communication partners how to implement ALS into their everyday routine. It may sound like an easy thing to do, however, in reality, our teachers, para's and parents are struggling with this strategy. Model, Model, Model! Let’s learn how to model because it is not as easy as it sounds. Learning Objectives: In this webinar participants will be able to... Understand the reason modeling symbolic language can be so difficult Describe three ways to teach communication partners how to model Be able to implement ALS into three routines in their students day
Amanda Samperi: Executive Function & AAC
AAC in the Cloud 2018 Conference
4.29 out of 300 ratings
(840 total views)
Executive functioning (EF) skills are critical to using one’s information and skills. This presentation will look at AAC through an executive functioning lens, connecting areas of challenge in EF skills with challenges that many users of AAC face. It will also provide evidence-based strategies to enhance executive functioning skills for users of AAC.
Cheri Dodge Chin: Fostering an AAC-affirming classroom
AAC in the Cloud 2022 Conference
4.36 out of 294 ratings
(1999 total views)
AAC users may be the only child in their classroom with a communication tool... but they don't need to feel alone! Learn strategies to affirm and celebrate AAC with peers and educational staff.
Beth Poss & Kelly Fonner: I Need That! How to Get Started with Core Vocabulary
AAC in the Cloud 2020 Conference
4.46 out of 290 ratings
(2134 total views)
This session helps families and educators understand expressive core vocabulary: what it is, where to get it, and how to use it to communicate with existing AAC systems and on manual core boards. We will share resources for pre-made core vocabulary and activities as well as tools for creating custom core resources.
Sarah Weber: Make Your Modeling Meaningful: Tools & Tips for Aided Language Input
AAC in the Cloud 2018 Conference
4.12 out of 289 ratings
(936 total views)
Do you struggle to connect with your AAC user? Do they only use their device to request? The problem could be what you’re choosing to talk about! We will discuss tools for determining highly motivating topics and tips for easy modeling in the moment to keep the conversation going.
Laura Valerio: Promoting Social Language Skills for an AAC User
AAC in the Cloud 2020 Conference
4.22 out of 286 ratings
(1763 total views)
This presentation will provide intervention strategies and display materials that could be utilized for promoting social language skills that are important for an AAC user to practice while interacting with others.
Amanda Hartmann & Barbara van’t Westende: AAC for Everyone -- Building an AAC Culture in Schools
AAC in the Cloud 2021 Conference
4.33 out of 273 ratings
(1165 total views)
Join this workshop to see how schools can build an AAC culture. Follow some real and authentic steps to engage educational teams in AAC. See how culture and mindsets can shift - and for the better. Recognise that all students, regardless of age, diagnosis or ability can benefit from AAC embedded into curriculum and learning. Learn how you can be part of this process.
Sarah Gregory & Elisa Wern: Teaming Up to Unlock the Possibilities for AAC Success
AAC in the Cloud 2021 Conference
4.43 out of 270 ratings
(638 total views)
This presentation will share resources for teaming up to support the AAC Users in your world. Specific strategies for collaborating with team members during consideration, implementation, and data collection will be provided. The different models for working as a team as well as examples of technology that can support this will be discussed.
Krista Howard, Brandi Wentland, & Shaun Pearson: Game On with AAC -- Virtual, In-Person, and User-Led Fun for All Ages
AAC in the Cloud 2023 Conference
4.14 out of 267 ratings
(615 total views)
Come learn how to play games that create opportunities for communication, connection and creativity. Krista Howard, a life-long user of AAC will demonstrate ways she has used games that are authentic and engaging to support students’ learning and communication. Attendees will practice a combination of in-person and virtually accessible games for all age groups that will leave you inspired and ready to take on tomorrow! We welcome therapists, teachers, and parents to join us in learning how to coach users of AAC to create and facilitate their own activities to empower and share the skills they have learned with other users of AAC. All forms of AAC will be demonstrated including no-tech, light-tech and high-tech AAC during the session.
Deidre Dobbels & Kelly Key: Strategies to Increase AAC Modeling in the Classroom
AAC in the Cloud 2018 Conference
4.45 out of 265 ratings
(936 total views)
A nationwide survey of general and special education teachers (pre-k – high school) identified perceived barriers in being able to provide partner aided language in the classroom setting. The results of this survey will be shared with participants along with practical solutions to overcome these obstacles, and provide educators with the tools and confidence they need to speak AAC.