Description
Recorded: November 29, 2022
Length: 90-Minutes
Managing to engage a classroom of students with significant physical disabilities and complex communication needs with robust curriculum can be quite a challenge and may seem overwhelming, but it is possible!!
Professionals struggle with how to reach students, facilitate the use of light, mid and high tech AAC and optimize the environment for engagement simultaneously. Morning meeting, alphabet and sound awareness instruction, shared reading, writing, math, science and social studies will all be talked about!
This webinar will describe how to engage students in a classroom setting while integrating AAC into instruction. Student case studies, videos and work samples will be shown throughout. The session will include lesson demonstration, instructional strategies and student videos. Come learn how to do it all and see what engaging instruction and robust instructional content looks like!
As a result of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe at least 3 elements used to create an engaging classroom experience for students with significant disabilities.
- Describe 3 teaching strategies used during literacy instruction activity using resources you have available to you.
- Identify 3 non-drill based alphabet activities.
- Describe 3 ways to create Accessible Educational Materials (AEM) to promote student engagement
Tova Horowitz, M.Ed., Tova has been a special educator for 15 years, teaching students with significant disabilities in self-contained classrooms as well as home-based settings. She is currently the Director of Education at the International Academy of Hope(iHOPE) in NYC, where she is supervising and mentoring teachers, developing curriculum and working with students with significant disabilities..
