Partnering with Parents: Building AAC Confidence
Empower parents to feel confident with AAC! This webinar shares practical tips for coaching, embedding AAC into daily routines, and creating fun, stress-free ways for families to communicate and connect.
Speaker
Elizabeth Tyler Savage, EdS, CCC-SLP, gets paid to play as a Speech-Language Pathologist. She received her Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Georgia, Masters of Communication Science and Disorders from the University of South Carolina, and an Educational Specialist Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Georgia and is currently working on her SLPD from NOVA-Southeastern University. She has a special interest in AAC and loves collaborating with her colleagues in order to treat her students and families.
Disclosure: Employee of Savannah-Chatham County Public School System and the owner of Marshside Speech Co.
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
AAC Users
Family Members
Educators
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 factors that influence parent confidence when supporting their child's AAC use across daily routines.
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You’ll be able to
Describe two evidence-based adult learning principles (e.g., Knowles, AGES, Gagné) and explain how they inform effective parent coaching in AAC intervention.
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You’ll be able to
Select and apply two practical strategies for embedding AAC modeling and communication opportunities into familiar family routines.
The full 1 hour
Your learning path.
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0:00-5:00 Welcome & Objectives 5:00-15:00 The Parent Experience with AAC 15:00-25:00 Foundations of Effective Parent Coaching 25:00-40:00 Practical Strategies to Build Parent AAC Confidence 40:00-50:00 Tools & Resources for Ongoing Parent Support 50:00-57:00 Case Example & Problem-Solving Discussion 57:00-60:00 Q&A + Closing
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