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Aided AAC Modeling

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– AAC user: child
– Communication partner: parent
– Target skill: aided AAC modeling

Offering Choices to a Child with Multiple Disabilities

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– AAC user: elementary age students with multiple disabilities including emerging symbolic communication and cortical visual impairment
– Communication partner: elementary age students
– Target skill: offering choices

Supporting Bedside Communication

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– AAC user: adult patients with communication difficulties
– Communication partner: acute care healthcare providers
– Target skill: improve bedside communication

Communicating Choices in the Hospital

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– AAC user: hospitalized children and adolescents with a wide variety of developmental and/or acquired disabilities
– Communication partner: inpatient health care providers
– Target skill: offering choices

How to Interact with Someone on the Spectrum: Peer Training Developed by an Autistic College Student

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– AAC user: this training shows how INSTRUCT can be used by people with disabilities, including those who benefit from AAC, to develop their own trainings for their communication partners  
– Communication partner: this training was created by an autistic college student to teach his peers how to interact with him based on his lived experience 
– Target skill: how to interact with someone on the spectrum (based on one autistic college student’s lived experience)

How to Make and Use Effective VSDs

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– AAC user: beginning communicators
– Communication partner: preservice speech-language pathologists
– Target skill: implement visual scene displays

Decoding Instruction

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– AAC user: individuals with early literacy skills
– Communication partner: preservice speech-language pathologists
– Target skill: providing decoding instruction to people who use or benefit from AAC

Example of INSTRUCT Training

INSTRUCT Training Video Library

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This library contains an example training videos created in the INSTRUCT app. Click on any of the links below to view a related training.

Using Transition to Literacy (T2L) While Working with Preschoolers Who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

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This module provides information on strategies and tools professionals can use in literacy intervention for sight words with preschoolers who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). These evidence-based strategies and tools have been shown to be effective in children and adults and across varying cognition and language levels and diagnoses, but we are focusing specifically on studies conducted with preschoolers in this module. This module consists of readings and interactive material to support translation of research to practice.

AAC Colloquium – Autumn 2024

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AAC Colloquium is a weekly series of informal presentations on AAC by (and for) the Penn State AAC community.  Both students and faculty are welcome to organize a session, please contact Beth Frick Semmler (bfs5682@psu.edu)… 

Adult using video VSD app to purchase food

Video Visual Scene Displays to Promote Communication Interactions with Adolescents and Young Adults with Complex Communication Needs

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This module explores various applications of a relatively new AAC tool, video visual scene displays (V-VSDs) to promote communication interaction across environments for different types of individuals who may have difficulty communicating. This evidence-based tool and associated strategies has been shown to promote peer interaction, community involvement, and learning.  It is effective in children and adults and across varying cognition and language levels and diagnoses. This module consists of readings and interactive material to support translation of research to practice.