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  • Utilizing Graphic Representation Systems toward Advancing AAC with AI Guided by Blissymbolics and Inclusive Design

    Online (Zoom)

    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 AI and LLM tools in order to meet the specific and unique needs of individual AAC users. 2. Explain the different affordances of Graphic Representation […]

    Speakers:

    Angelika Seeschaaf-VeresJoseph ScheuhammerJutta TreviranusShirley McNaughton

  • Apego y CAA: perspectivas para una intervención e investigación emergente / Attachment and AAC: Perspectives for Emerging Intervention and Research

    Online (Zoom)

    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 necesidades comunicativas complejas. 2. Identificar los retos y oportunidades que plantea el fomento de un apego seguro en niños que utilizan comunicación aumentativa y alternativa. […]

    Speakers:

    Gabriela RangelRuth Candela

  • Investigating Longitudinal Communication Growth in Students with Complex Communication Needs Enrolled in Partners4Literacy Classrooms

    Online (Zoom)

    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 in students with complex communication needs enrolled in self-contained classrooms. 2. List at least two effective communication strategies teachers reported for embedding aided language systems […]

    Speakers:

    Karen NatociLisa Erwin-Davidson

  • Sixty Years of Speaking Uniquely: Told through shared memory

    Online (Zoom)

    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 an AAC user’s own capabilities and their positive and productive relationship with their technology. 2. Discuss the importance of rich and comprehensive communication and language […]

    Speakers:

    Kari HarringtonShirley McNaughton

  • “CAAamigos Angelman: Juntos en la Lectura y la Comunicación en Latinoamérica”

    Online (Zoom)

    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 y evidencias del impacto de un proyecto colaborativo internacional para diseñar iniciativas similares en sus propios entornos. 3. Aplicar estrategias de alfabetización emergente y CAA […]

    Speakers:

    Cecilia Resoagli

  • Achieving True Educational Inclusion for the Most Complex Students: It’s Possible!

    Online (Zoom)

    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 inclusion for students with multiple challenges, including visual impairments and complex communication needs requiring alternative access methods. 2. Describe three “on the spot” accommodations that […]

    Speakers:

    Abby ZurlieneAli SteersLinda BurkhartRebecca Sobolevsky

  • 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

    Online (Zoom)

    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 literate, and the components of the project-oriented AT/AAC training program 2. review examples of self-study activities and methods used to revise components of a staff […]

    Speakers:

    James FeeneyJessica TorresMarcia SantosMelissa Pepin

  • Reimagining AAC: Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Idiosyncratic Communication Gestures

    Online (Zoom)

    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 motor and/or visual impairments when using traditional aided and unaided AAC systems. 2. Explain how wearable sensor-based technologies and artificial intelligence can be used to […]

    Speakers:

    Kevin Williams

  • Create-Connect-Communicate

    Online (Zoom)

    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 one or more ways the power of accessing communication system on web based platform to individual hardware is versatile. 3. List a minimum of two […]

    Speakers:

    Jon KarboJoni Nygard

  • 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 for supporting AAC in rural school settings. 2. Summarize the collaborative process for developing individualized learning profiles for students with complex communication needs. 3. Identify […]

    Speakers:

    Katrin Sannig

  • Understanding How Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers Acquire Spatial Prepositions: A Scoping Review

    Online (Zoom)

    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 preschoolers; 2. Differentiate between Chinese and English in spatial preposition usage; 3. Discuss the potential for the employment of technologies in spatial preposition acquisition.

    Speakers:

    Mengxuan Wu

  • Harnessing Eye Gaze Technology for the iPad: Tools, Tips, and Real-Life Applications

    Online (Zoom)

    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 iPad platform, including compatible hardware, the capabilities introduced with iOS 18, and the functional scope of available tools. 2. Demonstrate effective use of Apple’s built-in […]

    Speakers:

    Hannah EricksonLisa Bardach