AAC in Early Intervention: Practical Strategies for Improved Early Outcomes
Learn how to support early communication milestones using AAC! Discover how to foster early language with AAC, including device "babbling," gestures, and environmental sounds. Explore strategies such as joint attention and turn-taking and review practical examples of measurable early AAC goals for emerging communicators.
Speaker
Kelli Meyer is a highly skilled Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist with a decade of experience, specializing in Early Intervention for children aged 0-3. She is a candidate for Board Certified Specialist in Childhood Language Disorders and is dedicated to advancing neurodiverse affirming treatment practices across settings. Kelli has a profound expertise in play-based learning and early development speech and language skills sets. She has created an impressive community of over 150,000 parents, caregivers and professionals, where she dedicates her spare time to providing free information and resources. In addition to her clinical work, Kelli is certified in DIR Floortime and serves as an Childhood Expert and content creator at Lovevery, Inc., where she integrates her belief that play is the key to learning into educational resources for parents and children. Her advocacy and innovative approaches make her a distinguished professional within the field of speech-language pathology.
Disclosure: Kelli is the owner of the online community The Speech Scoop and is employed by AbleNet.
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Who this course is for
Every minute is written for working clinicians, educators, and families. You walk away with real-world tools to try with your next learner, not abstract theory.
Speech-Language Pathologists
Early Intervention Specialists
Parents & Caregivers
Pediatricians
After this course
What you’ll walk away with.
You leave with concrete skills and frameworks you can apply in your next session, classroom, or family visit, not just ideas to think about later.
Earn your CEUs
Attend the full course and pass the post-session assessment at 80% or higher. Your 0.1 ASHA CEUs are reported to ASHA when you opt in on the assessment.
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You’ll be able to
Identify at least three early communication milestones that can be supported with AAC.
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You’ll be able to
Name at least two early language strategies and how the strategy supports improved early language outcomes.
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You’ll be able to
List one example of a practical, measurable early language goal that incorporates AAC.
The full 1 hour
Your learning path.
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0:00 to 0:05 - Welcome and overview
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0:05 to 0:20 - Early communication milestones supported with AAC
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0:20 to 0:40 - Strategies to build early language outcomes
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0:40 to 0:52 - Practical examples
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0:52 to 1:00 - Measurable early AAC goals + wrap-up/Q&A
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