Core Language Learning: Make it Fun & Interactive!
Date/Location:
September 13-15, 2016, Pittsburgh
Description:
The focus of this 2.5 day seminar will be to provide learners with a theoretical and practical foundation for the use of core vocabulary as it pertains to language and vocabulary development for augmented communicators as well as how to integrate the use of core vocabulary as a primary strategy for targeting communication and language in home and academic settings. Our guest speakers will teach participants to use and teach the Unity® software through direct instruction, hands-on practice and small group activities. Therapeutic activities and implementation strategies will be discussed along with numerous resources that can be accessed within the device, the PASS software and on the Internet to support therapeutic outcomes.
Speakers:
Bruce Baker, PhD
Deborah Laurent Witkowksi, MA, CCC-SLP
Tracy M. Kovach, PhD, CCC-SLP
Russell Cross
Dr. Caroline Musselwhite
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain why core vocabulary, not extended vocabulary, should be emphasized in AAC intervention.
- Describe the relationship between the use of core vocabulary and normal language development.
- Describe the difference between a needs-based communication display and a language-based communication display.
- Identify the challenges with using a page-based system in an AAC device.
- Discuss the impact of motor automaticity in the successful use of AAC devices.
- Identify two key differences between referential and descriptive teaching strategies.
- Summarize the RPM-GO strategy to teach and generalize core language skills.
- Describe at least one strategy to teach core language through books, songs, or poems.
- Discuss how to set up a communication circle to support core language learning.
- Generate linguistically oriented IEP goals and objectives for students who use AAC.
- Discuss strategies that enable students who use AAC to demonstrate learning to demonstrate learning within the components of Bloom’s Taxonomy
CEUs
- Download, and complete the following forms.
- Save the files names: 160915_SCS_Lastname-Firstname.xls
- Send both files to ceus@aacinstitute.org
- CEU certificate will be sent after submitting the two forms
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