AAC in the Classroom: Empowering All Students to Communicate - Live Webinar
Description
<span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Do you work with students who have difficulty communicating verbally? Would you like to know more about how to give your students a "voice"?<br /> <br />This two-day live webinar is an introduction to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for teachers, paraprofessionals, Speech-Language Pathologists, and others who work in-person within the classroom setting.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Through lecture and interactive activites, we will cover many objectives, including:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">The guiding principals of AAC and its forms</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Core and fringe vocabularies</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">How to model communication for an AAC learner</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Engineering the classroom for visual communication</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Planning and integrating AAC throughout the day</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Selecting vocabulary and creating a lesson plan</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Team collaboration for success</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Resources for communication systems, activities, and lesson plans</span></li>
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<div><em><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">This training is an overview of AAC and focuses on in-person classroom implementation of basic visual AAC. It does NOT cover assessment or programming of high tech devices or their systems.</span></em><br /><br /><br /></div>
Category
Project
East Valley Special Education Local Plan Area
NOTE: Details for each specific Training/Workshop might vary from the above description.
