Kathy Look Howery

Dr. Kathy Look Howery began her career over 40 years ago focusing on finding ways for students with the extensive support needs share their voices in the world. She received her PhD in Special Education from the University of Alberta in 2017. Her doctoral research drew upon hermeneutic phenomenology to seek to understand what is it like for young people who need augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to speak with (or is it through) speech generating devices.
Kathy provides consultation to several Alberta school jurisdictions in supporting children and youth with CCN in developing communication, language and literacy skills. She has extensive experience in the areas of UDL and inclusive education. She has developed and is taught numerous graduate level courses including the Teaching Students with Complex Communication Needs Master’s Certificate at the University of Alberta.
Kathy is the current ISAAC Canada President and is an active member of the ISAAC International Research Committee.
Most recently Kathy is working under contract with Alberta Education as part of the Provincial Wide Low Incidence team with primary responsibility in the area of complex communication needs.
Kathy is thrilled to be sharing information about AAC whenever and wherever she can.

Disclosures:

Financial:

Kathy has a consulting firm, kATe Consulting, Inc through which she retains consulting fees primarily from school divisions

Nonfinancial:

Kathy Look Howery is President of ISAAC Canada.