ASHA eLearning Course Catalog: AAC Topics

NOW AVAILABLE: Open Access
(LINK HERE) Functional Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Approaches for Severe Aphasia: An Introduction Self-study Web Workshop. Earn 0.1 ASHA CEUs. Program expiration date: 4/10/2014. 

Recent Offerings (Courses expired 6/2/2012)  

My personal review - Excellent content, informative for entry level clinicians and those in need of a specific, practical, and professionally delivered refresher on getting started and moving forward in early AAC development. I sincerely hope that these will be offered again in the future!

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for School-Age Children With Intellectual Disabilities: Basic Strategies for Immediate Results.  0.1 ASHA CEUs (content from: Krista M. Wilkinson, PhD Ellen Kravitz, MS, CCC- SLP)

Lesson One: Basics
     • Definition of AAC
     • Multi-modal communication
     • Today versus tomorrow goals
Lesson Two: Continuum of Communication Independence with Case Studies
     • Emerging: Emily
     • Context-dependent: Max
     • Today Goals: Transitions and comprehension
     • Today Goals: Functions (wants/needs, information, social closeness, etiquette)
     • Today Goals: Participation and literacy

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for School-Age Children With Intellectual Disabilities: Strategies for Long-Term Intervention. 0.1 ASHA CEUs (content from: Krista M. Wilkinson, PhD Ellen Kravitz, MS, CCC- SLP)

I. Introduction
     • Definition of AAC
     • Multi-modal Communication
     • Technology Issues
     • Today Versus Tomorrow Goals
     • Continuum of Communication Independence
II. Case Study: Emerging Communicator (Emily)
     • Today and Tomorrow Goals
     • Modeling, Symbols and Vocabulary
III. Case Study: Context-Dependent Communicator (Max)
     • Today and Tomorrow Goals
     • Vocabulary, Symbols and Access
IV. Summary

Minspeak E-Newsletter, Issue 50

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Send to Friend May 30, 2012 Pixon Teaching Tip: Provide a hands-on experience to teach the Pixon or Unity single meaning picture for “who”. Create a simple paper mask out of a paper plate. Print out a Full Page “who” Pixon picture, trim it and glue it to the paper plate. Add a string to wear the mask or attach a hand-held stick to hold it. Have different people wear the mask and have the Pixon user ask “who is it.” This activity helps focus on both the idea of “person” and question mark, which is featured in the picture. Intervention Planning: Create more communication opportunities this week to encourage your person using Minspeak to ask “who” questions, combining “who” with an action word, (e.g., who help, who make, who go, who come). Teaching Materials Exchange: Celebrate Flag Day with a book that asks 7 questions about this holiday. This books is coded with Pixons and icon sequences from Unity®45, Unity®60, Unity®84, and Unity®144. Pittsburgh Language Seminar Series: There are only a few slots open for the June 19-21 seminars which will feature presentations by Seminar Alumni. The next seminar series will be in September (11th-13th) and features Caroline Musselwhite as the guest speaker. All of these seminars are provided free of charge, with meals and lodging provided. To register, contact Renee McGough immediately at 412-885-8541 x105 or email her at rmcgough@minspeak.com. Announcements: Don’t miss out on a Great Opportunity to attend pre-conferences at the ISAAC conference. A presentation on Core Vocabulary and LAMP are features of the pre-conference schedule.       Benefits of Minspeak Using multi-meaning icons. The power of motor automaticity. Use of Minspeak Minspeak systems with different disabilities. Minspeak and cultural-linguistic diversity. The Power of Minspeak Minspeak, language and literacy development. Using Minspeak in the classroom. Support of Minspeak Strategies to support use of Minspeak. Minspeak teaching materials. Visit us online www.minspeak.com © Semantic Compaction Systems 2009 1000 Killarney Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15234, USA. Tel. 412.885.8541 Fax 412.885.8548 This message was intended for: gmeier@villaesperanzaservices.org Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future emails. Unsubscribe

Re-Post: Utterance-Based Communication (J. Higginbotham)

Utterance-Based Communication:
One Voice No Longer Fits All

An Interview with Jeff Higginbotham, Ph.D., Partner, AAC-RERC;
Professor, Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo

For designers of utterance-based communication devices, conversational interaction is no longer a one-voice activity, declares University at Buffalo professor and AAC-RERC Partner Jeff Higginbotham. “In addition to adopting the right-tool-for-the-right-task concept,” he remarks, “we’re beginning to design devices that can be utilized by both partners in a communication activity.

Surprisingly, Dr. Higginbotham points out, “many device manufacturers don’t promote the reality that the device user’s conversation partners may read the display screens as the words appear so that they can respond quickly and keep the conversation going.”
Among manufacturers, he adds, “this is a major design irony; their devices are developed to accommodate an individual user model and don’t provide for the possibility – in fact, the likelihood – that the user’s conversation partner will become a user of the device as well.

“When we zeroed in on the problems that can arise in an interaction involving an utterance-based communication device we learned that those problems were not exclusively associated with the device user. These issues also involve the attentional limitations and expectancies of the partner who is engaged with the user of the device, the quality and appropriateness of the synthetic speech as it’s being produced and the availability of other modes of representing information.”

CLICK HERE to read the remainder of the Higginbotham article. 

The remaining paragraph headings:

Face2Face: Keeping Conversation Participants in Time

Less Oversight for Proliferating Non-dedicated Technologies  

Enter inTra

Consistent with Dr. Higginbotham’s conviction that socially inclusive interaction requires the participation of at least two individuals and the coordination of expression between them in time, the Face2Face inTra project has developed a front-facing display and a technology that couples the transcribed utterances of the communications partner with the utterance spoken by the AAC user

InTra as a Classroom

WebCrawler is Just-In-Time

Timing Remains an Issue, albeit Less of One

Transferring the Technology     

The Future: Internet Connectivity; GPS in the Wings 

RESOURCES 

Updates from L.A. A.T. Collaborative Meeting

Thank you, Lauren Wetzler (ATEC) for this info from the May 17th meeting!

Updates from Collaborative Partners:

Rosemarie Punzalan (AT Network)

o   AT Network provides trainings/webinars on various areas of AT: http://www.atnet.org/news-events/calendar.php

o   Disability Capital Action Day (Sacramento) – May 30^th, 2012 http://disabilityactioncoalition.org/

o   AT Network’s Exchange provides free short-term AT Loans: https://exchange.atnet.org/

Michael Martinez (Jr. Blind)

o   Jr. Blind Olympics: http://www.juniorblind.org/site/junior-blind-olympics

o   Student Transition Programs: http://www.juniorblind.org/site/student-transition-and-enrichment-program

o   Various other programs/events at Jr. Blind: http://www.juniorblind.org/site/

AT Resource/Flow Chart:

The participating collaborative members made further edits to our AT resource flow chart, we are still looking at making further edits to this resource in hopes of it being a valuable resource regarding AT for people we serve.

Other Resources/Events/Info:

·        AT Workshop “Funding Sources for AT” by State Council on Developmental Disabilities Area Board XI (Hosted by Frank D. Lanterman Regional Center and ATEC) – Thursday, June 21^st from 12-1 p.m. Participate in-person or online. (flyer attached)

·        So. Cal AAC Network http://scaacn.blogspot.com/ (Handout available on blog by Kara Bidstrup: From Eat Cookies to Asking Questions – Language Therapy in AAC) and other resources

·        AT Network AT-related news: http://www.atnet.org/news-events/news.php

Link Exchange from Mom's With Apps

144 strong! Have fun browsing...click each app title for the link.

From http://momswithapps.com/, posted 5/17/12
 

Add links to your favorite apps, blog posts, Facebook pages – or any link that covers family-friendly apps. Please include the app name (or page name) in the Link Title, your email, and a URL. Thanks for participating!

1.	Rocket Speller - FREE Spelling App	2.	iTouchiLearn Words for Preschool Kids
3.	iTouchiLearn Feelings for Preschool Kids	4.	iTouchiLearn Life Skills: Morning Routines
5.	iTouchiLearn Numbers for Preschool Kids	6.	Sight Words & Spelling with Pixopop
7.	Sight Words Hangman	8.	Sentence Builder
9.	World Flags and Anthems	10.	Jellybean Tunes
11.	Chipper's Rainy Day Adventure -Free interactive book	12.	Serving Sizer Recipe Cards (20% off)
13.	Swim with a Polar Bear at the Peek-a-Zoo	14.	San Diego Park Finder : ParkPogo
15.	Henry! you're late AGAIN!	16.	The Instrumental Alphabet
17.	Story Dice - a fun tool for all ages!	18.	Lists for Writers
19.	QI IQ - a two-letter word quizzer!	20.	It's FREE APP FRIDAY at BestAppsForKids.com
21.	Old MacDonald Had A Farm	22.	Peekaboo Guess Who
23.	Endless furry fun with Stunt Cat! (FREE)	24.	MathHelper (Long Division & Multiplication)
25.	"A Little Book About Feelings" App	26.	My PlayHome for Kindle Fire
27.	"Word Book and Puzzle Box HD" try for FREE now!	28.	"Spanish Word Book and Puzzle Box HD" try for FREE now!
29.	iLuv Drawing Animals - Learn to draw 40 animals step by step	30.	iLuv Drawing People HD - Learn to draw people step by step
31.	iLuv Drawing People (iPhone)	32.	iLuv Drawing Monsters HD - Learn to draw 20 cute monsters.
33.	Build A Story for iPad!	34.	Color My Name
35.	50% My First App Vehicles	36.	Pre-K ABC, 123, Phonics Tracing App (FREE, IA)
37.	FREE Feed The Animals	38.	FREE Buzzle - Drag-n-Drop Puzzles
39.	Multiplication: Invasion Of The Moon Monkeys!	40.	Puzzleosaurus - Dinosaur Jigsaw Puzzles
41.	My 1st Songs Collection HD	42.	Learning Tots Animals DX
43.	Learn To Count HD	44.	Counting Numbers 123 HD
45.	Fido Goes Places DX	46.	iLearnwords FREE
47.	iLearnwords	48.	Baby Learns Colors - record your own voiceover!
49.	Baby Learns Colors Lite	50.	The Three Little Pigs Interactive Book
51.	Aesop in Rhyme - Hare and Tortoise	52.	Aesop in Rhyme - Crow and Pitcher
53.	Aesop in Rhyme - Lion and Mouse	54.	Edsel McFarlan's New Car
55.	Tail Toes Eyes Ears Nose	56.	Love You To the Moon and Back
57.	Hurray for Pre-K!	58.	The Trees Grin Beside Me
59.	Dr. Duncan Dog on Duty	60.	Red Riding Hood
61.	Winter Is	62.	Miko - Mom, Wakeup and Play
63.	Miko - Mom, It Was Me	64.	Miko - No Bath! No Way!
65.	Miko - Double Birthday	66.	God's Little Lamb
67.	Fruits for Little Lamb	68.	Hattie, The Backstage Bat
69.	Miko Wants a Dog	70.	Miko Wants a Dog
71.	Inspector Peckit	72.	Miko Goes on Vacation
73.	Miko - Where is Mimiki	74.	Trekking in Nepal, Nepal Trekking
75.	Miko Moves Out	76.	Shadow of Elves
77.	One Cold Night	78.	Randy Kazandy, Where are your Glasses?
79.	Flash the Dash	80.	The Perilous Pit
81.	The Emperor's Race	82.	Since Lulu Learned the Cancan
83.	Sister Yessa's Story	84.	Spring Changes
85.	Fanny McFancy A Passion for Fashion	86.	Chuggy and the Blue Caboose
87.	Ling Ling Looked in the Mirror	88.	Felt Board in iTunes
89.	Felt Board Amazon - sale	90.	iBaby Buttons - custom photo & sound recording
91.	List of Paid Apps now FREE for Parents and Older Kids	92.	44 Apps for Kids with Price Drop! Updated Daily!
93.	Princesses Learn Chinese	94.	Princesses Learn Spanish
95.	Princesses Learn French	96.	Princesses Learn Sight Words
97.	GazziliWords - **New Update**	98.	GazziliShapes - **New Update**
99.	GazziliPuzzles - **New Update**	100.	TriGlyphen: Medieval, Mind-Bending Fun!
101.	Move your iPod to MotionWarp Sounds w/ BeBob!	102.	Like BeBob's FB page for chance to win app
103.	Be Warped Like BeBob w/ fun T's, Hoodies, PJs, Cases	104.	Brush of Truth - book app for kids 8-12
105.	Perrette and the pot of Milk	106.	Reading Rhino Children's Apps
107.	Mar Ballesteros Studio * Gift for fans	108.	Locomaster, Lucas' crazy machine
109.	Tales2Go - Great Kids' Audio Books On-The-Go	110.	Snow Globe Maker Spring
111.	BabyFirst Encyclopedia (Animals, Sea, Art, Quiz)	112.	Word Womino
113.	Word Domino Free	114.	Word Domino (android)
115.	AB Math	116.	AB Math (android)
117.	Math Party (multiplayer)	118.	ABC Flashcards (with audio)
119.	ABC Flashcards, real objects edition (with audio)	120.	Color Flashcards (with audio)
121.	Shape Flashcards (with audio)	122.	Flower Tap For Girls
123.	Truck Tap For Boys	124.	Puppy Dog Tap
125.	The Berenstain Bears and the Big Spelling Bee	126.	Picky Kid App Guide
127.	Reception ABC, 123, Phonics Tracing App (FREE, IA)	128.	Snowflake Station - Now only $1.99
129.	Chalk Walk - Teaching children the pincer grip	130.	Free The Bee (Spelling App)
131.	Rhyme-N-Time	132.	Animals for Tots. Animated Flashcards with Animal Sounds
133.	Bo's Dinnertime	134.	Bo's Bedtime Story
135.	Bo's Bedtime	136.	Teachers: Kindergarten Tracing App (FREE, IA)
137.	Letter Buddies AlphaBooks	138.	Letter Buddies AlphaBooks
139.	Zoozoo Readables HD	140.	Backyard Safari: Kids & Bugs
141.	Lulu in Polynesia	142.	SpeakColorsHD (speech therapy app)
143.	Invasion Of The Moon Monkeys Site	144.	Touch and Write
145.	Chinese Halloween

Muchos Videos from AAC-RERC

Featured Playlists from the AAC-RERC YouTube Channel

Updates from the AAC-RERC (Click the image to play)

Annual updates on AAC-RERC activities

   

Consumer perspectives (Click the image to play)

Videos by individuals who use AAC

     

Research Brief (Click the image to play)

Presentations by AAC-RERC partners on current research and development activities

  

Patient Provider Communication (click the image to play)

A series of interviews with leading clinicians and researchers on the topic of patient provider communication

     

Favorite video (click the image to play)

    

Uploaded videos (Click the image to play)

     

The Power of Communication (AAC doc video, 9 min)