Easterseals DuPage & Fox Valley webinar series
Presented by: Jill Senner, PhD, SLP and Matthew Baud, MS, SLP
“Webinar 2
Say What?!? AAC Assessment and Intervention for Children Who Speak
Date: 3/8/2024
Course Description: Speech comprehensibility, how well a child’s speech is understood by a communication partner in a natural context, can be influenced by a number of factors. Children who are poorly understood by some partners or in some contexts may benefit from AAC. Assessment tools for this population will be demonstrated and intervention strategies will be highlighted.
Target Audience: Appropriate for speech-language pathologists, Occupational therapists, teachers, instructional assistants, and other professionals who work with children using AAC devices.
Webinar 3
Chat with Me: Pragmatic Skill Intervention in AAC
Date: 5/3/2024
Course Description: The acquisition of social skills plays an important role in education, employment, and living opportunities for individuals with disabilities. In this presentation characteristics of social skills in individuals who use AAC will be discussed, tools for assessing social skills will be explained, a number of evidence-based therapeutic interventions for teaching social skills will be demonstrated, videos will be shown of therapeutic intervention, and free add-on social pages for use with core vocabularies will be shared.
Target Audience: Appropriate for speech-language pathologists, Occupational therapists, teachers, instructional assistants, and other professionals who work with children using AAC devices.”
