5515V - Paraeducator Teletraining to Offer Opportunities to Communicate Choices to Students With CCN and CVI

This session will share the results of a single case design study that evaluated the impact of a teletraining for paraeducators that taught how to offer opportunities to communicate choices to students with complex communication needs and cortical visual impairment (CVI). A four-step strategy for offering choices was taught via teletraining. The teletraining used a strategy instruction approach to provide examples, role play practice, and direct application to the targeted student. Information on typical student communicative responses and visual characteristics was used to individualize the training to each paraeducator-student dyad. Data collection and trainings were completed entirely over Zoom. Outcome data focused on paraeducator provision of the strategy and student response to choices offered.