AAC Practices That Make Champion Communicators
Teaching AAC is HARD. How can practitioners help their clients and families become champion communicators? What if the practitioner does not have extensive AAC experience? Where do practitioners begin in therapy? Who can practitioners invite to the conversation? In this session, practitioners will learn to use a framework to provide culturally inclusive, collaborative, and client-specific therapy practices to help their clients achieve their goals with multidisciplinary support.
Speaker
Megan Alano Covey, M.S., CCC-SLP is an ASHA certified and state licensed speech-language pathologist with experience working with children and young adults with complex communication needs. She practices at Westside Children's Therapy where she specializes in providing augmentative and alternative communication services and is an Adjunct Clinical Supervisor at Midwestern University's Speech-Language Institute. She has presented at numerous ASHA conventions, has published research on the test accuracy of pragmatic language and social communication tests, participates in Special Interest Group 12: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, and is an editor for USSAAC SpeakUp Blog. Her areas of interest include pediatric speech-language disorders, early intervention services, augmentative and alternative communication, and assistive technology. She offers assistive technology assistance to families in Belize through telehealth coaching through Project Speech International. Megan is an employee of Westside Children's Therapy and Midwestern University.
Built for you
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
Educators
AAC Teams
Communication Partners
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 how to ask families specific device questions that build rapport, trust, and support client growth across settings.
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You’ll be able to
Identify a client's and family's current communication needs across settings.
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You’ll be able to
Identify how to support learning with AAC across settings.
The full 1 hour
Your learning path.
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Introduction
3 minutes - 2
Learning Outcomes
10 minutes - 3
Name the device
2 minutes - 4
Vocabulary voicing and icon selection
3 minutes - 5
Vocabulary additions
5 minutes - 6
Identification of Client's language level
10 minutes - 7
Identification of Family's social-emotional and learning level
10 minutes - 8
Validation
5 minutes - 9
Teaching trajectory
10 minutes - 10
Wrap-Up
5 minutes - 11
Questions
5 minutes
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