Introduction toAAC for AAC Bootcamp ESMA 2014Kate Ahern
This slideshow introduces Augmentative Communication to teachers, therapists and school employees who were part of Easter Seals Massachusetts AAC Bootcamp for Professionals in August 2014
Core Vocabulary for AAC Bootcamp ESMA 2014Kate Ahern
This presentation for professionals who support AAC users was created and presented by Susan Malloy at AAC Bootcamp for Professionals for Easter Seals MA in August 2014
Introduction toAAC for AAC Bootcamp ESMA 2014Kate Ahern
This slideshow introduces Augmentative Communication to teachers, therapists and school employees who were part of Easter Seals Massachusetts AAC Bootcamp for Professionals in August 2014
Core Vocabulary for AAC Bootcamp ESMA 2014Kate Ahern
This presentation for professionals who support AAC users was created and presented by Susan Malloy at AAC Bootcamp for Professionals for Easter Seals MA in August 2014
Implementation of Proloquo2Go for Students with AAC NeedsEric Sailers
This presentation shows how to implement evidence-based practices with Proloquo2Go, an iOS app for augmentative and alternative communication. Strategies highlighted include core words, aided language stimulation, and descriptive teaching.
This presentation is applicable for any AAC device or system. It not specific to Alexicom AAC. The focus is on educating parents, SLPs, and teachers AAC basics, roles, and strategies on how to more effectively teach children how to develop their own voices and become independent communicators.
VoiceThread for Universal Design: Addressing the needs of diverse learnersjaimiehoffman
This presentation discusses ways that individuals can use VoiceThread for facilitating Universal Design. Also provided are recommended guidelines for using VoiceThread along with some strengths and disadvantages of the tool.
Workshop from the Special Education Principal's Association of New Zealand (SEPANZ) conference 2011.
All of us need to communicate socially through our day – and it makes up a large part of what we do. We tell stories, chat, gossip and listen as others tell us about their weekends. Social communication is often estimated to be more than 50% of our daily conversation.
Many students who use AAC or students who have difficulties with communication have trouble with social communication. This often isolates them from others and creates difficulties with building social closeness.
This presentation will talk about some strategies for improving social communication, including visual scene displays, photo based storytelling and sequenced social scripts. The importance of small talk and using partner directed questions will be discussed – and research showing how crucial this is for people with disabilities to build their social networks will be covered. Use of technology, including speech generating devices and iPads to support students in this area will also be addressed.
Come along and have fun – and learn about helping students with complex communication needs to develop their social communication skills so that they can tell you about their day and tell everyone else all your gossip!
Language: Your Organization's Most Important and Least Valued Asset (Confab 2...Abby Covert
Have you ever felt like differences in language were holding your organization back? Perhaps you have tried to standardize language across parts of your organization only to find you have opened a huge can of worms?
The experiences we make for our users are made of language choices. We also depend on language to collaborate with the people we work with. Yet language is most often only tended to when you talk about things like content and copy.
Controlling your organization’s vocabulary is one of the murkiest messes we can take on, but it also might be one of the most impactful ways we can help our organizations.
In this talk, Abby Covert, staff information architect at Etsy, will share with us the strategies and tactics they are using to pay closer attention to language choices they make across both internal and external user experiences.
Implementation of Proloquo2Go for Students with AAC NeedsEric Sailers
This presentation shows how to implement evidence-based practices with Proloquo2Go, an iOS app for augmentative and alternative communication. Strategies highlighted include core words, aided language stimulation, and descriptive teaching.
This presentation is applicable for any AAC device or system. It not specific to Alexicom AAC. The focus is on educating parents, SLPs, and teachers AAC basics, roles, and strategies on how to more effectively teach children how to develop their own voices and become independent communicators.
VoiceThread for Universal Design: Addressing the needs of diverse learnersjaimiehoffman
This presentation discusses ways that individuals can use VoiceThread for facilitating Universal Design. Also provided are recommended guidelines for using VoiceThread along with some strengths and disadvantages of the tool.
Workshop from the Special Education Principal's Association of New Zealand (SEPANZ) conference 2011.
All of us need to communicate socially through our day – and it makes up a large part of what we do. We tell stories, chat, gossip and listen as others tell us about their weekends. Social communication is often estimated to be more than 50% of our daily conversation.
Many students who use AAC or students who have difficulties with communication have trouble with social communication. This often isolates them from others and creates difficulties with building social closeness.
This presentation will talk about some strategies for improving social communication, including visual scene displays, photo based storytelling and sequenced social scripts. The importance of small talk and using partner directed questions will be discussed – and research showing how crucial this is for people with disabilities to build their social networks will be covered. Use of technology, including speech generating devices and iPads to support students in this area will also be addressed.
Come along and have fun – and learn about helping students with complex communication needs to develop their social communication skills so that they can tell you about their day and tell everyone else all your gossip!
Language: Your Organization's Most Important and Least Valued Asset (Confab 2...Abby Covert
Have you ever felt like differences in language were holding your organization back? Perhaps you have tried to standardize language across parts of your organization only to find you have opened a huge can of worms?
The experiences we make for our users are made of language choices. We also depend on language to collaborate with the people we work with. Yet language is most often only tended to when you talk about things like content and copy.
Controlling your organization’s vocabulary is one of the murkiest messes we can take on, but it also might be one of the most impactful ways we can help our organizations.
In this talk, Abby Covert, staff information architect at Etsy, will share with us the strategies and tactics they are using to pay closer attention to language choices they make across both internal and external user experiences.
Assistive Technology for Students with Moderate to Severe ImpairmentsSpectronics
These are the slides from the full-day Preconference Workshop presented by Amanda Hartmann, Speech Pathologist, Spectronics, for Special Educators as a part of the SPED Conference in Singapore, November 2014. It covers information on a variety of Assistive Technology to support Early Learning, Communication, Literacy, Behaviour and Social Skills.
Imagine being able to extend student learning beyond the traditional four
walls of the classroom. Learn how social media tools can be used as social
learning tools. Discover ways to integrate these tools into your teaching
process. Learn how to integrate them to your classroom to engage, excite and
connect with your students. Leverage the creative power of social media to
encourage students to teach other students, to share their knowledge and to
gain input from practitioners in the field. This presentation provides you
with a close examination of several social media tools and describes how they can be
applied to foster student success, learning and engagement.
4. Why AAC?
Purpose of Communication
(Light, 1988)
Express wants and needs
Gain and share information
Build and maintain social relationships
Participate in social etiquette
6. •Make real
choices
•Refuse, reject, s
ay no
•Ask for what I
want
•Share feelings
•Be heard and
responded to
even if the
answer is no
•Ask for and get
attention and
interaction
•Have and use
AAC all the time
•Know and ask
about my
schedule
•Be taught
how to
communicat
e
•Be a full
member of
my
community
•Be treated
with respect
and dignity
•To spoken to
and not
about
•Be
communicat
ed with in a
sensitive
manner
Communication Bill of Rights
7. iPad Review
Accessibility Features Walk-Through
Focus on Guided Access
Locks user into single app
Can lock hardware buttons
Can lock orientation
Can be accessed by triple click of home
Can block out hot spots
Focus on Switch Access
Built in access using screen as switch
Bluetooth switch access
12. Feature Matching
Determine the Features you Need
For example
What symbols?
Voice
Vocabulary System
Access Method
Off-the-shelf Usability
Buttons per page
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15. Feature Matching Resources
AAC Apps by Jane Farrell
Children’s Hospital AAC App Feature Matching
Fonner and Marflius Feature Matching
PrAACtical AAC Blog
16. Vocabulary
We want
Core vocabulary plus Fringe Vocabulary
A system that grows with the child
Ability to generate unique messages
We don’t want
Only nouns
A system that will get stuck
Ability to say only what is programmed
17. Core Words and Fringe Words
Core Words are
Small number of words
Used frequently
Common to everyone
Fringe Words are
Large number of words
Used infrequently
Personal to user or situation
o Core words can be combined with each other or fringe words in a logical manner
o Fringe words cannot usually be combined with another fringe word logically
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23. Some Quality AAC Apps
Symbol Based (Pre-programmed)
Proloquo2Go
Avaz
LAMP Words for Life
TouchChat Go Talk Now
Tap Speak Choice
Text Based
Proloquo4Text
Predicable
Symbol Based (Blank)
Go Talk Now
Sounding Board
Tap Speak Series
25. MMM
Motivate
Focus on engaging learning
activities
Use natural opportunities
Harness what students are
interested in
Focus on activity and
interaction not AAC
Model
Aided Language
Stimulation
Increases Auditory
Processing
Acts as a visual support for
receptive language
Normalizes AAC use
Shows children how to think
and problem solve with
communication system
Move out of the Way
Allow processing time
Allow time to compose
message
Avoid over-prompting and
creating learned
helplessness
Increase peer interactions
26. Core Words
Core Word of the Week (C-WOW)
Core Word Collages
Core Word Contests
Read the Room – Core Word Edition
Vocabulary A-Z Free Trial
27. Games
Guess Who?
Guess What/What’s in the Bag?
Where’d it go?/Find It
Mad Libs
Silly Sentences
AAC Word Race
Simon Says – Core Word Edition
Read the Room Race
Variations on these to go with
theme units, holidays and events
28. Descriptive Teaching Method
By Gail M. Van Tatenhove, PA, MS, CCC-
SLP
Needs at least 50 permanent Core Words
Move from referential teaching (students
answer by referring to topic vocabulary)
to descriptive (students answer by using
core words to describe what was learned
Example instead of “what comes out of a
volcano?” ask “tell me two things about
lava”
Three Steps to a DTM Lesson
Identify and Introduce
Teach and Talk
Review and Assess
hot
Go away
scary