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Future of Presuming Competence: AAC, AI & Authentic Authorship

Date: 2/27/2026 Time: 8:30-11:30 Location: internet Type: Webinar
Price: $55 Make a Payment

Description

ASHA CEUs pending, TBD

Explore how AI can expand inclusion and meaningful communication for students who use AAC. This session will describe emerging tools, analyze when AI supports or overrides a student’s intent, and help participants develop ethical, evidence-based strategies that amplify student autonomy, authorship, and authentic voice.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe how emerging AI tools can enhance communication autonomy and authorship for AAC users.
  2. Analyze case examples to identify when AI features support versus override user intent.
  3. Develop practical strategies for integrating AI-enhanced AAC tools that amplify user voice within ethical and evidence-based frameworks.

Agenda:

  1. Welcome & Framing (10 min)
    Introduction,, overview, and reflection on AI as a scaffold for authentic communication.
  2. Ethics and Evidence (15 min)
    When AI supports versus overrides user intent; aligning with best practices.
  3. Teachable moments: Idea generation, Vocabulary expansion and Sentence Structure (30 Min)
  4. From Access to Authorship: Modeling AAC & AI (50 min)
    Reframing writing and communication for intent, identity, and agency.
  5. What’s Possible – Future of AI: Guest Speaking – Alan Vu (15 Minutes)
  6. AI in the IEP as Assistive Technology (25 min)
    Connecting present levels of performance, goals, and documentation to support AI co-authorship.
  7. Reflection & Application (15 min)
    Group discussion: using AI + AAC to amplify—not replace—student voice.
  8. Final Reflection/Informal Assessment (5 min)

Audience: 

SLPs in K-12 schools working with students who use AAC.
SLP, OT, PT, COTA, Paraeducator, Teacher, Special Education Teacher, Parents, TVI
No prerequisite learning or materials needed.

Presenters

Brenda Del Monte, MA, CCC-SLP

Instructor Disclosure: Instructor Disclosure: Brenda Del Monte receives payment from the Special Education Technology Center. She owns a company called Technically Speaking AAC and co-hosts and develops content for “Awe and Wonder AAC & AT Podcast”. She receives royalties from Amazon for the sale of her book “I See You In There”.

Course Completion Requirements:

Completion requires learners to (1) view/attend the instructional presentation in full; (2) complete informal learning assessment/reflection. Attendance will be monitored through Zoom. Course requirements must be submitted no later than March 2nd 2026.

Policies:

For all of our policies including accommodations, refunds and complaints, please refer to the SETC Website Help Page.

Contact

Email Sue Wright at the SETC office

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: https://www.pdenroller.org/cwu/catalog/event/190046