@AVRCE_Student Services

We have THE most amazing SLPs here @AVRCE_NS as this student made a point of acknowledging. “To Miss Rowland, Thank you for helping me and you agreeing to my ideas. Thank you for being THE best.”

A great morning with @AvrceS SLPs learning together about AAC @AvrceAt

Day 30 of #AACaware21 - Emergent Communicators - "Remember, even if they are not using their AAC yet, our learners are communicating! Look for facial expressions, body movements or gestures. Respond to that communication! youtube.com/watch?v=110FdZ…

Final day of #AACaware21 - PrAACtical AAC - "PrAACtical AAC supports a community of professionals and families who are determined to improve the communication and literacy abilities of people with significant communication difficulties." praacticalaac.org

Day 29 of #AACaware21 - Adapted Books - "To integrate reading and writing into communication and language learning we need to have lots of books that are easily accessible. Books should be accessible physically as well as through content and interest." praacticalaac.org/praactical/boo…

Day 28 of #AACaware21 - Alternative Pencils - Think about it, in order for them to say whatever they want, whenever they want, we need to teach students skills with writing. This is where alternative pencils come into play. alternativepencils.weebly.com

I really love this strategy for Day 27 of #AACaware21 - Predictable Chart Writing - "Engaging in writing is typically a challenging and often abandoned activity for students with significant disabilities." med.unc.edu/ahs/clds/resou…

Day 26 of #AACaware21 - Shared Reading - "Put the CROWD in the CAR" sharedreader.org/putting-the-cr…

Day 25 of #AACaware21 - "Research in emergent literacy shows that students with significant disabilities including those with complex communication needs, benefit from many of the same types of literacy activities used with typically developing children." literacyforallinstruction.ca

Day 24 of #AACaware21 - Model as a MASTER PAL - Motivate; Accept Multiple Modalities; Statements more than Questions; Time; Engage Naturally; Response not Required; Presume Potential; Appropriate Prompting; Let the user Lead communicationaactualized.com/uploads/9/9/8/…

Day 23 of #AACaware21 - Core Word of the Week strategy - We are starting this in many schools here in @AvrceS. So far we are getting rave reviews from staff and our students are responding too! assistiveware.com/blog/wonderful…

Day 22 of #AACavrce21 - Moving beyond Single Words - The key to progressing from single words to sentences is core word instruction. rachelmadel.com/blog/help-your…

Day 21 of #AACaware21 - Communication Partner Strategies - " 1. Learn how to Model 2. Comment rather than question 3. Pause and wait 4. Know how to prompt 5. Respond consistently 6. Accept all forms of communication assistiveware.com/learn-aac/buil…

Day 19 of #AACaware21 - Least to Most Prompting - "Remember: if we are constantly prompting our communicators, then we are teaching them to only communicate when someone tells them to." rachelmadel.com/blog/prompt

Day 18 of #AACaware21 - Getting AAC Users Communicating - Some AAC Dos and Don'ts callscotland.org.uk/blog/AAC-Dos-a…

Day 17 of #AACaware21 - Activity/Topic Modeling Handouts from @the_aac_coach - "These images provide ideas for language that you can model on an AAC system while interacting with your learner." drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

Day 16 of #AACaware21 - Modeling without Expectation - "No expectation means that we're not asking questions, prompting our learner to imitate or trying to get them to say anything in particular." youtube.com/watch?v=OZ9_gx…

It’s been a rewarding day of empowering students to communicate and interact with their environment @AvrceAt @AvrceS @KCAKentville

Day 15 of #AACaware21 - Aided Language Stimulation - "This is when the communication partners model a child’s communication system functionally throughout the day. Partners communicate to the child in the same mode as they are expected to use back." ctnsy.ca/Program-Servic…