Developing Augmentative & Alternative Communication Systems: Assessment and Intervention.

Catalog description

Participants will learn: a) how to assess communicative forms from nonsymobolic to symbolic and unintentional to sophisticated in students with disabilities; b) how to collaborate with audiologists, vision specialists, physical, occupational, and speech therapists related to communication; c) to select from the range of light tech to high tech augmentative communication systems and related assistive technology, based on assessment; d) how to develop communication instructional plans; and, e) how to implement instruction embedded across multiple environments and with multiple partners.