Course curriculum

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    Course content

    • PowerPoint

    • Implementing AAC with DHH Students

    • Quiz

    • Evaluation

    • Continuing Education Credits

Course information

Course description: This presentation will discuss how Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) can be used to support Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) students' American Sign Language (ASL) acquisition and expression. The presentation will also help provide professionals a guide as to which DHH students are candidates for AAC, and who are not, based on various criteria. The attendees will learn how to distinguish how to target AAC core words with correlating signs that can be targeted in a conceptual way, allowing for their signing to continue to grow. Professionals will acquire AAC tools, strategies and ideas that will follow language rules. There can be obstacles faced when collaborating and integrating the use of AAC in a variety of environments; therefore, it is invaluable that professionals that use AAC with DHH students create appropriate participation plans for communication partners. This can ensure success in spontaneous and routine communication situations. It is important that while coaching our communication partners we incorporate our plans into everyday life. This, as well as teaching the corresponding ASL signs, and the location on the communication system will allow for an ASL-English bilingual approach.


Agenda:

5 minutes: Introduction 

10 minutes: Who is a Candidate for AAC? 

15 minutes: Case studies: A Variety of DHH Students That May Benefit From AAC 

15 minutes: Obstacles, Strategies, Solutions 

15 minutes: Communication Partners 


Learner outcomes: 

Participants will be able to:

  1. Determine which Deaf and Hard of Hearing students are candidates for AAC
  2. Explain how to implement ASL and AAC strategies during communication
  3. Create participation plans for communication partners

Instructor(s)

Quinn Kelly

Quinn Kelly is a Speech-Language Pathologist at a school for the Deaf in New York. She received her B.A in Linguistics with a concentration in American Sign Language from Montclair State University in 2017, and her M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Mercy College in 2020. During her graduate work, she conducted research on "Interprofessional Training for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)." Her research focused on the importance of a team approach when implementing AAC systems. Since graduating, she has continued her efforts to raise awareness about assistive technology within community programs. She recently began serving her school as the AAC specialist, servicing students ages three to twenty-one. She currently resides in New Jersey.

Speaker disclosures

Financial disclosures: Quinn is receiving royalties for this course.

Nonfinancial disclosures: Quinn has no relevant nonfinancial disclosures.

Continuing Education

This course is offered for 0.10 ASHA CEUs.