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  • AAC Class “Three Ways”: Learning Outcomes from Face-to-Face, Hybrid, and Fully Online Course Modalities

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1002   Objectives: 1. Identify the different synchronous and asynchronous learning modalities employed in this study. 2. Describe aspects of course content that were shared across three modalities, as well as content that differed. 3. Discuss the student learning outcomes resulting from the analysis of common course products across the three modalities.   […]

    Speakers:

    Joanne P. Lasker

  • ComBo-a new resource for training of communication partners of adults in need of AAC

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1039   Objectives: 1. Define ComBo as an intervention aimed at communication partners of adult AAC users. 2. Summarize evidence regarding AAC intervention for adults with communicative disability. 3. Describe the evidence focusing on training of staff working with adults in need of AAC. 4. Explain the implementation of aided language input among […]

    Speakers:

    Gunilla Thunberg

  • Ten years of AAC in Bulgaria: achievements and problems

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1031   Objectives: 1. Describe how emergent AAC countries could benefit from the experience of Bulgaria. 2. Explain the critical barriers and facilitators identified the presentation.   Moderator: Anne Marie Renzoni

    Speakers:

    Maurice Grinberg

  • Eye-Gaze & Cerebral Palsy: Causal Mechanisms, Functional Vision and Learning Purposeful Control

    Session ID: 1051   Objectives:  1. Describe the causal mechanisms that underpin purposeful control of eye-gaze technology. 2. Analyse the contributions of cause and effect, functional vision and developmental level to the acquisition of purposeful control of eye-gaze technology. 3. Explain how to apply tools and scales for the observation and desription of functional vision […]

    Speakers:

    Tom Griffiths

  • Talking with Ai: Using Social Bots for Conversational Purposes

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1053   Objectives:   1. Identify three features of conversation required for Ai supported AAC. 2. Discuss how prosody within in-person interaction and how text-to-speech may be leveraged by AI for AAC. 3. Identify at least three features of chatBots that apply to AAC.   Moderator: Heini Furrer  

    Speakers:

    Jeff Higginbotham

  • Talking with Tech Live: Brainstorming Solutions To Real-Life AAC Questions

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1016   Objectives: 1. Describe three tools to effectively implement AAC. 2. Describe three strategies used to effectively implement AAC. 3. Describe a system for evaluating which tools and strategies might be evidence-based.   Moderator: Vicki Haddix

    Speakers:

    Christopher BugajRachel Madel

  • USSAAC’s Speaker Connection: Amplifying Our Voices

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1044   Objectives: 1. Describe characteristics of USSAAC’s AAC Speaker Connection that have led to hiring AAC users in educational, training, advocacy, and professional development events. 2. Explain the benefits to AAC users and other groups that result from amplifying AAC voices across professional and educational settings. 3. Identify ways in which the […]

    Speakers:

    Jessica FrewKrista HowardLJ SeiffMike HippleTami Altschuler

  • A Collaborative AAC Peer Support Model

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1022   Objectives: 1. Describe peer support models that are available now, within and outside AAC fields. 2. List what criteria make a good peer support model within AAC. 3. Describe how successful AAC peer support models might be integrated into independent living and AAC practices.   Moderator: Adrianna Noyes

    Speakers:

    Melanie Fried-Oken

  • Building Writing Autonomy: Supporting Developing Writers with Idea and Language Generation

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1012   Objectives: 1. Discuss different supports for language and ideas to be used with developing writers. 2. Identify which supports for language and ideas to use with developing writers at different groups on the Writing with All Tools Continuum.   Moderator: Michelle Phillippy

    Speakers:

    Jane Farrall

  • Communication without Borders: Emotion Work & People with CCN

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1004   Objectives: 1.Explain the Cycle of Negativity and how it contributes to the practice of emotion work for people with CCN. 2.Describe the ways in which society marginalises people with disabilities, and how people with CCN perform, suppress, monitor and pretend emotions for the benefit of others. 3.Describe how emotion work contributes […]

    Speakers:

    Margie Charlesworth

  • Young adults should not be learning to self-advocate

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1034   Objectives: 1. Explain what self-advocacy and self-direction of supports look like with and for AAC Communicators and their families.   Moderator: Michelle Phillippy

    Speakers:

    Bec Casey

  • Bringing AAC Service Delivery into the 21st Century

    Online (Zoom)

    Session ID: 1001   Objectives: 1. Identify three (3) challenges individuals with CCNs and their families face when seeking AAC services. 2. Discuss three (3) benefits of teletherapy as a form of AAC service delivery. 3. Describe how one AAC Clinic shifted from traditional in-person AAC service delivery to a teletherapy model during COVID-19. 4. […]

    Speakers:

    Christina GivnerCristina L. Pujol