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This 4-part course for all skill levels will provide a framework to help you learn the basic vision characteristics of children with CVI (cortical visual impairment) and work together with your student’s family and educational team to support their communication needs and find the right fit for AAC devices.

This four part, introductory series is designed to provide speech-language pathologists and other communication professionals a stepwise framework to guide execution of the core elements of a comprehensive augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) assessment. Learn how to add to your SLP language tool box to adjust for the unique needs of complex communicators and be more effective at selecting and trialing AAC tools.

This 4 part course for all skill levels will provide a framework to help you support the development of language and communication skills with AAC for children at the earliest stages of communication learning. You will learn how to use comprehensive assessment data to set functional and developmentally-sound, child and family-centered goals for emerging communicators (Explorers). You will also learn how to set the stage for engaging communication learning opportunities and how to support those opportunities across environments with evidence-based language intervention strategies, AAC style! This series is sure to engage you in the theory and practice of successful communication intervention with AAC and give you the tools you need to guide your students and their families toward a lifetime of communicative independence.