AAC Learning Center

Educational resources for AAC

Literacy and AAC: Letter-Sound Correspondences

The AAC Learning Center Moodle provides free evidence-based content on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for pre-service teachers and speech-language pathologists.  Students will be able to complete activities on-line, and then download a Certificate of Completion as documentation of their activities. Students also will be able to print and complete a guided notes activity that summarizes the key content of the module.

Below please find an outline of the content for Literacy and AAC: Letter-Sound Correspondences. Please click on Literacy and AAC: Letter-Sound Correspondences to view the materials at the AAC Learning Center Moodle. You will be asked to register/sign-in at the Moodle site.

3/15/24 Update
• This module was first offered in Summer, 2018
• 3,030 students at 25 universities have earned Certificates of Completion
• 94% of students would strongly recommend (59%) or recommend (35%) these materials to other students

This module focuses on teaching letter-sound correspondence skills to people with complex communication needs.

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Key Skills and Instructional Practices

  • What are the benefits of literacy for children who use AAC?
  • What skills should be targeted in literacy instruction?
  • How can we provide motivating and effective instruction?
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Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences

Letter-sound correspondences involve knowledge of the sounds represented by the letters of the alphabet. Knowledge of the sounds that letters make is key to 

  • successful reading, especially decoding ( “sounding out a word”). 
  • successful spelling and writing.

We estimate it takes students approximately 45 minutes to complete this module and earn the Certificate of Completion. To view the module, please go to https://aac-learning-center-moodle.psu.edu , register, and log in. You will then be able to select (“Access”) the module on Literacy and AAC: Letter-Sound Correspondences. 

Please reference these materials as

McNaughton, D., Light, J., Caron, J., & Babb, S. (2019, November 12). Literacy and AAC: Letter-Sound Correspondences [Instructional Resource]. AAC Learning Center. https://aac-learning-center.psu.edu/moodle/literacy-and-aac-letter-sound-correspondences/

The contents of this website are a joint offering of Penn State University and the RERC on AAC. They were developed, in part, under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90REGE0014) to the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (RERC on AAC). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this website do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, or HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.
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