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  • How to make partners model AAC – challenges and success factors from 20 years research and practice

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1040   Objectives: 1. Describe Akktiv – a comprehensive partner training program. 2. Discuss evidence with regard to partner based interventions. 3. Describe the challenges in instructing different types of communication partners. 4. Describe how to implement aided language input using universally designed AAC.   Moderator: Kirsi Neuvonen

    Speakers:

    Gunilla Thunberg

  • AAC as language – What is not researched

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1011   Objectives: 1. Describe AAC as an atypical language form. 2. Explain the processes underlying typical and atypical language development. 3. Identify thematic ideas for AAC research.   Moderator: Elisa Wern

    Speakers:

    Stephen von Tetzchner

  • Comprehensive Literacy Instruction and AAC: From Emergent to Conventional Literacy

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1023   Objectives: 1. Identify 4 questions used to determine the appropriateness of a focus on emergent or conventional literacy for individual learners. 2. Identify 3 or more emergent literacy instructional routines. 3. Identify 5 important areas to address in conventional literacy instruction.   Moderator: Kathryn Haughney

    Speakers:

    Karen Erickson

  • Caregivers of Children using AAC: What Are Their Experiences?

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1036   Objectives: 1. Identify at least two changes in caregiver stress characteristics over the past 20 years. 2. Describe at least three characteristics of caregiver experiences across varying stress levels. 3. Discuss at least three strategies for family-centered AAC services based on caregivers’ shared experiences of stress.   Moderator: Anne Marie Renzoni

    Speakers:

    Meredith Gohsman

  • Reading and Writing in People with Aphasia Who Benefit from AAC

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1003   Objectives: 1. Apply meaningful principles to classify people with aphasia who may benefit from AAC. 2. Describe differences in reading and writing between Stored Message and Generative Message categories within the AACF. 3. Generate ideas about specific types of AAC tools and strategies for identified communicators with aphasia. 4. Identify appropriate […]

    Speakers:

    Joanne P. Lasker

  • The Guide to Communication with Hospitalized Patients

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1019   Objectives: 1. Explain the sequence in which the six main elements of the Guide framework are most effectively used. 2. Identify three types of patients that the Guide can be applied for. 3. Describe three purposes for which the Guide can be used.   Moderator: Jaime Van Echo

    Speakers:

    Yedida Levine-SternbergYonit Hagoel-Karnieli

  • Ditch the Therapy Script: Using AAC for Dynamic & Engaging Language Learning

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1046   Objectives: 1. Describe at least two ways AAC can provide flexible language opportunities for young learners. 2. List two or more ways AAC can be used to support receptive vocabulary for learners with a variety of learning needs. 3. List two or more examples of how vocabulary and grammar can be […]

    Speakers:

    Rachael Langley

  • ISAAC’s Journal: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

    Session ID: 1047   Objectives: 1. Identify the role of the AAC journal in ISAAC. 2. List the current issues and priorities for the journal. 3. Identify at least three topics the journal has covered.   Moderator: Michelle Phillippy  

    Speakers:

    MaryAnn RomskiRose A. Sevcik

  • AAC Across the Lifespan: A Parent Panel Discussion

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1042   Objectives: 1. Describe one resource for parents as they serve as educational advocates. 2. Name 3 challenges AAC users often face when transitioning from school services to adulthood. 3. Name 2 benefits of involvement in the AAC community for AAC users and their families.   Moderator: Michelle Phillippy

    Speakers:

    Abigail FinneyAllison MichelsChristine KramlichManuel MorenoPatrick Regan

  • AAC, How we got here and where we are likely to be in 20 years

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1032   Objectives: 1. Describe early AAC devices (simple and technical) and understand how technology had advanced what is possible. 2. Name at least two key unmet needs of all AAC users that we currently cannot address. 3. Describe new capabilities that will be possible in the future for meeting unmet needs. 4. […]

    Speakers:

    Gregg Vanderheiden

  • Beyond the borders of speech: Music and touch at the core of social interaction

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1027   Objectives: 1. Explain the fundamental importance of embodied interaction in all social communication. 2. Describe a variety of ways in which social interaction can be fostered through forefronting diverse modalities. 3. Implement collaborative activities that include the participation of diverse social communicators.   Moderator: Irene Hunter

    Speakers:

    Rachel S. Y. Chen

  • ISAAC Singapore – A New Chapter in Changing Times

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1033   Objectives: 1. Describe ways to engage various stakeholders in building awareness of AAC in the larger community. 2. Describe ways to engage with community partners to create inclusive events and spaces, with and for AAC communicators and their families. 3. Identify ways for AAC Communicators and their families to be actively […]

    Speakers:

    Michelle CheongSarah YongSeng Koon YongTanushree SaxenaXuet Ying Tan