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What is Comprehensive Literacy and Ideas for Literacy at Home
Date: February 22, 2024
Speaker: Marci Revelli
About: A brief overview of learning to read and write for children who use AAC. And a discussion of ways to build literacy into daily home routines.
View What is Comprehensive Literacy and Ideas for Literacy at Home on YouTube
Download a PDF of a list of literacy ideas shared during the live event
Emergent Literacy, “Early” AAC, & Gestalt Language Processing: A Parent Perspective
Date: June 13, 2024
Speaker: Cass Griffin Bennett
About: Cass shares:
- her family’s AAC journey (which started in toddlerhood) and the common themes of
- supporting her daughter with AAC
- supporting her daughter in emergent literacy
- literacy-related strategies, tools, and tips from her experience parenting at the intersection of gestalt language processing and toddler AAC
View Emergent Literacy, Early AAC, & Gestalt Language Processing on YouTube
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