Learning Opportunities

Learning language is less like one person opening a locked door and more like a team of construction workers building a house. Rarely is it the case that a dynamic augmentative communication device is put in place and then suddenly scores of language comes spilling out of a student. Instead, it takes a consistent, collaborative effort to implement a functional language system. Learn how to implement strategies that focus on key elements of augmentative and alternative communication. Questions pertaining to the implementation of core vocabulary (the most frequently used words) will be answered. Strategies for how to integrate aided language stimulation (modeling using a student’s communication system) will be discussed. Learn how motor planning/motor memory is a necessary component to building automaticity and expanding language. Discuss the theory and practice of implementing a language-based curriculum.