This checklist was created using multiple articles outlining the most important practices for inclusion of children who use AAC. It is helpful to use as a team to reflect upon your own inclusionary practices and make a plan for improvement.
This document uses Beukelman and Mirenda's inclusion criteria to assist in creating inclusionary goals for AAC users. For example, this document can be used at the beginning of the school year to document current levels of inclusion, and then be completed again later in the school year to determine inclusionary growth.
Many AAC apps have vocabulary that support academic participation. This was a cheat sheet created for a paraeducator and classroom teacher to help them better understand where academic vocabulary is in TouchChat with Wordpower. Creating a cheat sheet like this can help a classroom teacher support academic participation for AAC users.
This is a cheatsheet created for a classroom teacher, outlining specific strategies to use during full group instruction, to support increased participation for an AAC user. Practicing these strategies may assist a child in increasing the ways in which they can contribute to large group discussion.