This workshop will explore some of the options available as low tech supports for communication, including low tech boards, visual schedules, simple switches, adapted books, and visual scenes. Participants will learn about the latest and greatest visual scheduling apps available on the iPad and how to utilize them in the classroom and/or at home.  Participants will also learn about apps that provide visual scene displays, which are interactive picture displays used to provide vocabulary context for users and communication partners.

This training will focus on strategies to teach and promote the use of a variety of augmentative communication systems from low tech to high tech in order to get students to independently initiate spontaneous, novel utterances rather than simply repeating pre-stored sentences when prompted. The strategies presented will cover a range of communication ages and abilities, including those at the level of emerging language and literacy. The teaching strategies presented are appropriate for a wide variety of devices and programs. This training is appropriate for anyone (teacher, SLP, parent, paraprofessional, etc.) working with a student using a communication device. CEUs = 0.2

All workshops, unless otherwise noted, will take place at TechACCESS in Cranston, RI.  Click here for directions.

Cancellation: TechACCESS reserves the right to cancel any workshop with less than 6 registered participants. We will attempt to make this determination 7 days prior to a scheduled workshop (so please REGISTER EARLY!). In the event that TechACCESS cancels a workshop, the registration fee will be credited toward a future workshop or refunded.