Date: 02/14/2025 Time: 9:00-12:00 Location: internet Type: Webinar
Description
Class Cost: $55 Make Payment
This 3-hour course is designed for speech-language pathologists, special educators, and other professionals working with individuals who use or need augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems. The course will focus on AAC implementation skills that are critical, yet often missed or misunderstood. Learn how to support every communicator’s connection with their important people through a heightened understanding of how neurodiversity and physical or medical complexity impacts the development of communication. Understand your own cultural and disability biases to better serve all children. Learn partner strategies that nurture each AAC users’ autonomy and self-expression. Join presenter Brenda Del Monte as she shares practical AAC implementation strategies, encourages reevaluation of assumptions, and creates an inclusive environment where all communicators capitalize on strengths and interests and develop skills that reflect their potential.
Learning Objectives
- Describe two positive outcomes for AAC learners when the professionals and others support them PRESUME that EVERY individual has the potential to learn to communicate.
- List two evidence-based strategies you plan to try with your selected population (a. neurodiversity/autism or b. complex bodies/medically-fragile) to foster development of autonomous communication.
- Identify two newly-learned printable resources that can be used to guide and enhance collaboration with communication partners of AAC users.
Presenters
Brenda Del Monte, MA, SLP-CCC
Brenda Del Monte is a speech language pathologist and an assistive technology evaluator and facilitator. She worked as an SLP in Washington State public schools and is currently a private practitioner in Arizona, where she does AAC evaluations and trainings. Brenda has presented her knowledge at Closing the Gap and her collaborative research on accessing AAC at ATIA. Brenda Del Monte is a co-founder of Believe Beyond Ability, a non-profit organization that evaluates, determines, provides and trains those with multiple disabilities on assistive technology to increase independence. Brenda is also an author of the newly published book, “I See You In There,” a collection of stories from her 20+ years of experience working with children and adults with disabilities. She is currently a co-host of the Awe and Wonder Podcast hosted by the Special Ed Tech Center.
Contact
Email Sue Wright at the SETC office
Zoom Link
Clock hours for this webinar and others in this series are available from ESD105 for a small fee. The following Professional Development Enroller link provides more information about clock hours: pending