ISAAC Conference

ISAAC Singapore – A New Chapter in Changing Times
2024-10-30 23:00 - 2024-10-31 00:00 (America/Toronto) | 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 involved in planning activities and events.

Moderator: Sarah Yong

Beyond the borders of speech: Music and touch at the core of social interaction
2024-10-30 23:00 - 2024-10-31 00:00 | 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

AAC, How we got here and where we are likely to be in 20 years
2024-10-30 22:00 - 23:00 | 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. Identify research areas needed before we can realize future potentials.

Moderator: Adrianna Noyes

AAC Across the Lifespan: A Parent Panel Discussion
2024-10-30 20:00 - 22:00 | 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

ISAAC's Journal: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
2024-10-30 11:00 - 12:00
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

Ditch the Therapy Script: Using AAC for Dynamic & Engaging Language Learning
2024-10-30 11:00 - 12:00 | 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 represented through AAC.

Moderator: Kirsi Neuvonen

The Guide to Communication with Hospitalized Patients
2024-10-30 11:00 - 12:00 | 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

Reading and Writing in People with Aphasia Who Benefit from AAC
2024-10-30 11:00 - 12:00 | 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 treatment goals for identified types of communicators with aphasia who may benefit from AAC.

Moderator: Elisa Wern

Caregivers of Children using AAC: What Are Their Experiences?
2024-10-30 09:00 - 11:00 | 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

Comprehensive Literacy Instruction and AAC: From Emergent to Conventional Literacy
2024-10-30 08:00 - 11:00 | 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

AAC as language - What is not researched
2024-10-30 08:00 - 10:00 | 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

How to make partners model AAC - challenges and success factors from 20 years research and practice
2024-10-30 08:00 - 09:00 | 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

Bringing AAC Service Delivery into the 21st Century
2024-10-30 08:00 - 09:00 | 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. Discuss three (3) key considerations when implementing tele-AAC services.

Moderator: Anna Erba

Communication without Borders: Emotion Work & People with CCN
2024-10-29 23:00 - 2024-10-30 00:00 | 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 to a person’s mental health.

Moderator: Irene Hunter

Young adults should not be learning to self-advocate
2024-10-29 23:00 - 2024-10-30 00:00 | 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

Building Writing Autonomy: Supporting Developing Writers with Idea and Language Generation
2024-10-29 21:00 - 23:00 | 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

A Collaborative AAC Peer Support Model
2024-10-29 21:00 - 23:00 | 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

USSAAC’s Speaker Connection: Amplifying Our Voices
2024-10-29 20:00 - 21:00 | 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 AAC Speaker Connection is contributing to more diverse and equitable employment in public speaking and educational settings.

Moderator: Elisa Wern

Talking with Tech Live: Brainstorming Solutions To Real-Life AAC Questions
2024-10-29 20:00 - 21:00 | 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

Talking with Ai: Using Social Bots for Conversational Purposes
2024-10-29 11:00 - 12:00 | 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

Eye-Gaze & Cerebral Palsy: Causal Mechanisms, Functional Vision and Learning Purposeful Control
2024-10-29 11:00 - 12:00
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 skills to clinical practice.
4. Evaluate current research evidence on how eye-gaze technology is assessed, provided and supported.

Moderator: Kathy Look Howery
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ComBo-a new resource for training of communication partners of adults in need of AAC
2024-10-29 11:00 - 12:00 | 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 partners of adults in need of AAC.

Moderator: Signhild Skogdal

Ten years of AAC in Bulgaria: achievements and problems
2024-10-29 11:00 - 12:00 | 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

AAC Class “Three Ways”: Learning Outcomes from Face-to-Face, Hybrid, and Fully Online Course Modalities
2024-10-29 11:00 - 12:00 | 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.

Moderator: Jaime Van Echo

Bilingual (English/Spanish) AAC Vocabulary Solutions from PRC-Saltillo
2024-10-29 10:00 - 11:00
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 and how they may best meet the needs for individuals who need robust Spanish language/communication AAC.
3. Define 3 key features within our bilingual (English/Spanish) vocabularies that can be used as a teaching tool or support for therapists and families.

Moderator: Michelle Phillippy

Perceived Barriers and Predictors for AAC Service Provision Among Speech-Language Pathologists
2024-10-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Online (Zoom)
Session ID: 1035

Objectives:
1. Describe the barriers to AAC service delivery reported by speech-langauge pathologists.
2. Compare the perceived barriers and predictors for implementation of AAC in clinical practice.
3. Identify solutions for remediating barriers to AAC service provision.

Moderator: Signhild Skogdal

From Participation to Communication: Bodily-Tactile Early Intervention for Children with Visual Impairment and Additional Disabilities
2024-10-29 10:00 - 11:00 | 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 face in early interactions.
3. Describe how the bodily-tactile modality can be used to enhance the participation and communication of children with VIAD at the preverbal stage of language development.
4. Explain the results of the bodily-tactile early intervention.

Moderator: Kim Mears

It’s not just translation: Adapting AAC Language Systems for International Use
2024-10-29 09:00 - 10:00
Session ID: 1049

Objectives:

1. Critically evaluate the impact of English-centric biases in AAC systems on the communication effectiveness of non-English-speaking users.
2. Identify the barriers and challenges in developing AAC systems for diverse linguistic and cultural contexts.
3. Analyze the role of syntax, semantics, and regional dialects in the development of culturally and linguistically appropriate AAC systems.

Moderator: Signhild Skogdal

Matriz de Comunicación e Hitos para la comunicación: Herramientas para evaluar competencias comunicaTIVAS, Communication Matrix and Milestones for Communication: Tools for assessing communication competences
2024-10-29 09:00 - 10:00 | Online (Zoom)
Session ID: 1045

Objectives:
1. Compare the use of objective tools in the communication process to visual examination and monitoring without recording systems.
2. Describe how the use of detailed tools enables the formulation of more concrete work objectives and the continuous assessment of communicative competencies.
3. Describe how the combination of two assessment tools provides a more comprehensive view of the user’s abilities.
4. Define one limitation to the design of these tools.

Moderator: Gabriela Berlanga

Designing Accessible & Inclusive Online Meetings for Persons with Complex Communication Access Needs - Cancelled
2024-10-29 09:00 - 10:00 | Online (Zoom)
Important note: This session has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond ISAAC’s control.

Session ID: 1009

Objectives:
1. Describe the significance of communication accessibility for individuals with complex communication needs (CCAN) in online meetings.
2. Identify key challenges faced by individuals with CCAN in participating effectively in online meeting environments.
3. Define practical strategies and tools to design and facilitate inclusive online meetings that accommodate diverse communication needs.
4. Apply acquired knowledge to advocate for and implement inclusive practices in online meetings to promote accessibility and inclusion for individuals with CCAN.
