– 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
This module provides information on strategies and tools professionals can use while using visual scene displays with young children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). These evidence-based strategies and tools have been shown to… Using Visual Scene Displays While Working with Young Children who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
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 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)… AAC Colloquium – Autumn 2024
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.