Target communication partners
• School aged children and adolescents who are peers
• May also be helpful for family members, school staff, related service providers, direct support staff
Target individuals who benefit from AAC
• School age students with multiple disabilities with cortical visual impairment (CVI)
• Also appropriate for infants, toddlers, and older beginning communicators with a wide range of developmental disabilities
Target strategy
• How to structure opportunities for children with multiple disabilities to communicate choices
Run time
• 11 minutes
Author
• Tara McCarty
Supporting evidence
McCarty, T., & Light, J. (2025). Teletraining to teach communication partners to support students with multiple disabilities including cortical visual impairment and emerging symbolic communication in communicating choices. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00146
McCarty, T., & Light, J. (2025). Effects of a short mobile training to teach peers to structure opportunities to communicate choices for students with multiple disabilities including cortical visual impairment [Manuscript submitted for publication].