This module provides an introduction to literacy instruction for learners with complex communication needs, and describes the impact of literacy instruction for Anna, a young girl with autism spectrum disorders ( ASD).
The major topics include:
Educational resources for AAC
This module provides an introduction to literacy instruction for learners with complex communication needs, and describes the impact of literacy instruction for Anna, a young girl with autism spectrum disorders ( ASD).
The major topics include:
Godfrey Nazareth
Webcast Description
Godfrey Nazareth is a biomedical engineer who makes use of AAC to communicate with others. In this presentation (including a question and answer session) with a graduate class in augmentative and alternative communication at Penn State University, Godfrey describes his experiences as a person with a diagnosis of ALS, and his use of AAC to support his life as a husband, a father, a medical researcher, avionics expert, and airplane pilot.
Godfrey is also a co-leader of the RERC on AAC Dissemination and Training Team, and has played a key role in the RERC on AAC Student Research and Design Competition.
Additional Resources
Webcast Description
This presentation will review the research and development activities associated with the Visual Scenes Display (VSD) Project at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln .
Specifically:
Additional Resources
Augmentative Communication News: Visual Scene Displays (August 2004)
This issue provides information on the use of Visual Scene Displays with beginning communicators and individuals with significant cognitive and/or linguistic limitations (pdf)
Visual Scene Displays (University of Nebraska)
University of Nebraska site for downloading Visual Scene Templates (link)
Melanie Fried-Oken, Ph.D.,
Oregon Health and Science University
Webcast Description
Melanie Fried-Oken describes her research on AAC intervention for people with primary progressive aphasia.
Key findings include that people with primary progressive aphasia
This webcast include both data and video from the research study, as well as videos by individuals with primary progressive aphasia (and their family members) discussing their experiences with primary progressive aphasia, and the positive impact of AAC. The webcast provides evidence, from a controlled experiment, that AAC is an important and valid intervention for people with progressive aphasia in clinical and natural settings.
• Bourgeois, M. , Fried-Oken, M. & Rowland, C. (2010, March 16). AAC Strategies and Tools for Persons With Dementia. The ASHA Leader. (full text)
• Beukelman, D.R., Garrett, K. L., & Yorkston, K. (2007). Augmentative Communication Strategies for Adults with Acute or Chronic Medical Conditions. Brookes Publishing, Baltimore, MD.(Ordering Information)
Supporting Conversation
This webcast was produced as part of the work of the AAC-RERC under grant #H133E080011 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
Janice Light & David McNaughton
This free webcast provides information on effective instructional procedures to teach literacy skills to individuals with ASD and limited speech.
The webcast includes both detailed instructional procedures, as well as case examples (including videoclips) of reading and writing instruction with children and adolescents with ASD.The webcast provides information on how to teach key literacy skills, including
The instructional procedures are based on the recommendations of the National Reading Panel (2000), with adaptations to support the participation of individuals with ASD who have limited speech. These evidence-based procedures were developed as part of a federally funded research grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), as part of the AAC-RERC, under grant #H133E030018; and the Augmentative Communication Fund, supported by the Forklifts Annual Golf Tournament/Joe Strada Sr. Memorial Fund. Development of this wecast was supported by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services under grant #H325K080333.