Schedule
Schedule
Events for October 29, 2025
Effective elements in the communicative treatment of children with complex communication needs
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 25 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Define the effective elements in the communicative treatment of children […]
Development of the communication–related quality of life tool for aided AAC communicators – “COMMQUAL”.
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 29 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the process of co-developing an accessible CrQoL assessment tool […]
Talking Scrubs: Could AAC on scrubs save lives?
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 38 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe a novel translation of AAC into health settings and […]
Bridging the AAC Implementation Gap for Children in Asia: A Review of Barriers and Breakthroughs
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 105 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify key facilitators and barriers that impact the successful implementation […]
Resources and Implementation Ideas to Strengthen Support for Beginning AAC Users
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 61 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Explain each type of Stepping into AAC resource and how […]
Defining AAC
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 82 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe how AAC is currently defined and conceptualized 2. Discuss […]
“ComuniCAAdos: comunidad virtual de usuarios de comunicación aumentativa y alternativa en español”
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 26 Objectives: 1. “Como resultado de esta actividad, el participante podrá: 2. Conocer un modelo de grupo virtual, […]
Innovative customized solutions for communication needs in India
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 104 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Discuss Designs and Ideas for AAC Innovation in low-resource settings. […]
Tomi Bartzenko – My Personal Journey to Independence
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 121 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Discuss the rights and abilities of people with disabilities to […]
Let’s look before we leap: a thoughtful approach to AI and AAC
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 35 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify different types of ‘AI’ as applicable to AAC. 2. […]
Sharing Your Voice: Inclusive Methods for Involving Participants with Speech Differences in Communication Research
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 34 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify and implement specific methodological adaptations that enable meaningful […]
Communication Partner Profiling Among Primary Caretakers of Children who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 69 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the variability in AAC-related skills among caregivers, and identify […]
Life notebooks, life story books and AAC. A lifelong project.
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 73 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Analyze the cognitive and emotional factors that make interaction support […]
Self-advocacy skills for AAC users
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 90 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify the 5 steps needed to learn to self-advocate. 2. […]
Providing Co-Treatment Services for Children who use AAC: Perspectives from Occupational Therapists and Speech-Language Pathologists
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 23 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. List three potential reasons for pursuing a co-treatment approach for […]
Handshake – using arm movement as an AAC switch
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 50 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the handshake system. 2. Discuss the potential for using […]
Enhancing professionals’ knowledge and self-efficacy in AAC assessment using a co-designed training program: Comparing the effectiveness of two online training methods
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 72 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1) Summarize online training methods. 2) Explain challenges faced in the […]
Inclusion in AAC Research: Lessons Learned from Four Collaborative Research Projects
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 80 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify three key benefits of collaborative approaches to inclusive […]
Empowering Self-Determination for AAC Users: Strategies to Promote Inclusion and Advocacy
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 6 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify and explain the core components of self-determination and their […]
Special education teachers experiences with implementing Augmentative and Alternative communication systems using the Goal Attainment scaling method.
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 43 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe experiences using GAS to implement AAC goals. 2. […]
The words we use: exploring speech and language therapists’ reflections on semi-speaking as a communication identity.
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 52 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe semi-speaking as a communication identity from this research study. […]
Communicative competence and use of communicative functions among young aided communicators in the home environments
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 79 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe a checklist for evaluation of communicative functions and communicative […]
Speaking Up: Building Self-Determination
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 116 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Implement the “Framing a Future” questionnaire, a tool that allows […]
Literacy for All: Innovative and Inclusive Practices in AAC
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 13 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify the core components of comprehensive literacy instruction for students […]
Conocimiento y uso de los SAAC dentro del entorno escolar en España: Barreras y facilitadores encontrados por docentes y familias de alumnos usuarios de SAAC
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 28 Objectives: 1. Conocer cuál es el estado actual sobre el uso y conocimiento de los SAAC dentro […]
How We Do It: Selection & Programming of Stage Two Gestalts for GLPs that use AAC Based the NLA Framework
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 65 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe characteristics of non- or minimally-speaking people that could indicate […]
Bridging the Distance: The Need for a Remote AAC Communication Application
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 76 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify the limitations of current AAC technologies in supporting remote, […]
Preparing SLPs to Provide Highly Effective School-based Augmentative and Alternative Communication Services: Project ACTION AAC
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 97 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. List important competencies for scholars who will go on to […]
Accessing the AAC Journal: Submission, Review, Publication, Reading
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 99 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. List four components of the AAC production, 2. Define COPE […]
Access to Agency: A Reflective Tool for Building Self-Determination
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 66 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Explain the concept of self-determination as a fundamental human right, […]
Enhancing Safety Through Social Stories: A Scoping Review of Abuse Prevention Strategies
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 89 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify key risk factors contributing to the high incidence of […]
Research Matters: Creating a national network to advance research in the field of augmentative and alternative communication
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 93 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Understand the purpose and organisation of the “Research Matters” network […]
Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Communication Speed in AAC Systems
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 1 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify what types of AI can be integrated into AAC […]
Empowering Employment: Communication Ability Profile for Employees and Employers (CAPE)
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 20 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. State the benefit of completing the CAPE for employees with […]
Utilizing Graphic Representation Systems toward Advancing AAC with AI Guided by Blissymbolics and Inclusive Design
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 68 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the methodology being applied to critically select and co-design […]
Apego y CAA: perspectivas para una intervención e investigación emergente / Attachment and AAC: Perspectives for Emerging Intervention and Research
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 83 Objectives: 1. Describir la relación entre la teoría del apego y el desarrollo infantil en personas con […]
Investigating Longitudinal Communication Growth in Students with Complex Communication Needs Enrolled in Partners4Literacy Classrooms
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 63 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify communication impact from a class-wide approach to language-literacy intervention […]
Sixty Years of Speaking Uniquely: Told through shared memory
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 81 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Explain the critical value of positive family support to developing […]
“CAAamigos Angelman: Juntos en la Lectura y la Comunicación en Latinoamérica”
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 46 Objectives: 1. Comprender la estructura y dinámica de grupos de lectura con CAA online. 2. Analizar resultados […]
Achieving True Educational Inclusion for the Most Complex Students: It’s Possible!
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 67 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Outline three actionable strategies to promote effective academic and social […]
Helping Support Staff and Individuals with Complex Communication Needs via an Ongoing, Collaborative, and Project-Oriented Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC) and Assistive Technology (AT) Training Program
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 77 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. describe the underlying theoretical and practical rationale, connections to related […]
Reimagining AAC: Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Idiosyncratic Communication Gestures
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 118 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe at least 3 communication challenges faced by individuals with […]
Create-Connect-Communicate
View a global list of converted local start times Sponsored by Session ID: 125 Objectives: 1. Identify at least three different purposes for use of GoTalk Connect. 2. Describe […]
Building AAC Capacity in Rural Northern Alberta: An Inclusive, Interdisciplinary, and Practice-Oriented Model
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 112 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. List the key components of a practice-oriented, interdisciplinary capacity-building model […]
Understanding How Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers Acquire Spatial Prepositions: A Scoping Review
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 107 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the age effect of spatial preposition acquisition for Mandarin-speaking […]
Harnessing Eye Gaze Technology for the iPad: Tools, Tips, and Real-Life Applications
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 36 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the current landscape of eye tracking technology on the […]
Building Inclusive AAC Systems: Strategies for Diversity and Cultural Relevance
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 123 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Explain the truth behind at least 2 myths of multilingualism […]
Investigating profiles of children who use AAC: A Retrospective Chart Review
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 40 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify the need for research that discusses key variables in […]
AI and AAC: Is It Going to be Star Trek or Bladerunner?
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 75 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. List 3 types of AI. 2. Identify 3 examples of […]
From Recommendations to Policy: Advancing Communication Access Through the North American Alliance for Communication Access (NAACA)
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 113 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Identify key components of effective Communication Access Guidelines for individuals […]
Beyond Presence: Redefining Inclusion and Self-Advocacy Through the Lens of an AAC User
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 55 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Explain how inclusion is a mindset rather than a place, […]
Making Self-Advocacy Accessible: A Collaboration in AAC and Education
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 106 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. List at least three ways AEM can enhance communication, participation, […]
Panel: Things I Wish My Communication Partners Knew
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 122 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the technical and personal complexities of AAC devices, including […]
Revolutionizing Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Generative Artificial Intelligence
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 4 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Discuss two significant benefits of Generative AI for AAC users. […]
AAC as a Tool for Feelings, Regulation and Problem Solving
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 53 Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Discuss and discover the personalised language AAC users really need […]
COMUNICACIÓN AUMENTATIVA Y ALTERNATIVA ATENCIÓN TEMPRANA CENTRADA EN LA FAMILIA: UNA PROPUESTA DE INTERVENCIÓN
View a global list of converted local start times Session ID: 47 Objectives: 1. El/la Profesional será capaz de diseñar intervenciones individualizadas de CAA en atención temprana, aplicando principios basados en […]
