Schedule
Schedule
Events
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From Participation to Communication: Bodily-Tactile Early Intervention for Children with Visual Impairment and Additional Disabilities
Online (Zoom)Session ID: 1025 Objectives: 1. Explain why early social play routines are useful for developing participation in children. 2. Identify the challenges that children with VIAD and their parents […]
Speakers:
Sini Peltokorpi -
Bilingual (English/Spanish) AAC Vocabulary Solutions from PRC-Saltillo
Session ID: 1050 Objectives: 1. Show the location of five bilingual (English/Spanish) vocabulary files available on PRC-Saltillo devices. 2. Describe the layout and structures of our bilingual (English/Spanish) vocabularies […]
Speakers:
Daniel F. Dardiz -
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, […]
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. […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Speakers:
Jane Farrall -
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