All About Connections: Bridging Literacy and Language with AAC Learners

Presenter(s)

Event Details

Topic:

instruction, literacy & inclusion

Format:

demonstration

Subject Level:

intermediate

Age Span:

preschool
kindergarten - grade 6
grades 7-12

Target Audience:

AT specialist
consultant
educator
family member / caregiver
special educator
speech language pathologist

Professional Development Credits

IACET CEUs:

0.01

ACVREP CEs:

1

Presentation Length: 1 hour

Location:

Plaza 4

Description:

How do I teach nonverbal students to read? What gets students using AAC learning, participating, and communicating during literacy instruction? Find yourself asking these questions? Join us in this interactive session to learn how to engage AAC learners in comprehensive literacy curriculum. Readtopia offers an inviting, standards-aligned special education curriculum with experiential learning. PRC-Saltillo provides, as well as supports, industry-leading speech-generating devices, apps, and vocabularies because we believe that everyone deserves a voice. Discover free, new resources designed specifically to increase participation and communication of AAC learners during reading and writing intervention. Leave this session with new-found confidence to bridge communication and language development with literacy instruction so you can create more inclusive, engaging, and effective learning experiences for emergent communicators using AAC.

Learning Outcomes:

As a result of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Describe the routines of comprehensive literacy instruction for emergent learners.

• Explain the benefit of representing words with single motor plans in an AAC vocabulary system and its impact on language development.

• Identify powerful words from a lesson and define/support use of them with descriptive teaching strategies

Disclosures:

I am a full-time employee-owner of PRC-Saltillo.
Maureen is a full-time employee of Building Wings, Inc.