AAC
Here are some great resources to help your team implement and support Augmentative & Alternative Communication use.
Implementation
Core Vocabulary Implementation
Speechy Musings has developed a resource to help SLPs systematically teach and reinforce AAC core vocabulary. It includes 10 units for instruction, data collection, and visuals to aid in implementation. Her blog is linked to the button below explaining this resource. She has also created an AAC Implementation Toolkit available on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Activity Matrix
Click the button below for a blog entry from "You Aut-a Know" on working collaboratively to build activity matrices for students. The blog includes additional links related to the topic, including a free editable activity matrix on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Data Collection
Lori Tufte has created a checklist and rubric to document a student's proficiency with their device following an intervention session.
Students are rated on how they interact with the AAC System during activity, pay attention to the activity, actively participate, utilizes the AAC system during activity, and self-correct errors.
Prompting Levels
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Additional Resources
AAC Language Lab - instant access to a variety of activities you can do with your student based on specific language objectives related to core vocabulary.
ASHA Introduction to AAC - includes introduction, definitions, types of systems, and decision-making about AAC systems and interventions