Mariana Polistchuk, MS CCC-SLP: No financial or non-financial relationships to disclose
Abstract: Grow Literacy Skills with AAC: This presentation will increase participant's knowledge of how to incorporate literacy skills into speech therapy sessions. Participants will learn how to conduct shared reading lessons with complex communicators who use AAC. Also, participants will gain new strategies to build engagement while reading and help clients improve their comprehension and communication skills with AAC.
Summary of Presentation : Participants will learn new ways to implement literacy into speech therapy sessions to grow language skills for students/clients who use AAC. Participants will learn evidence based strategies to improve language learning by incorporating shared reading and literacy instruction for complex communicators who use AAC. Participants will learn new way to implement books to increase use of AAC and improve comprehension skills during speech therapy session This presentation will teach strategies for speech language pathologists that want to increase comprehension of literacy concepts and improve language instruction when working with complex communicators who use AAC.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Participants will describe new ways to implement literacy into speech therapy sessions to grow language skills for students/clients who use AAC.
Participants will describe evidence based strategies to improve language learning by incorporating shared reading and literacy instruction for complex communicators who use AAC.
Participants will describe new ways to implement books to increase use of AAC and improve comprehension skills during speech therapy session