#TalkingAAC

With a hands-on understanding of the challenges that arise in public school classrooms, presenters will offer a systematic and engaging approach to instruct emergent AAC users in vocabulary acquisition.  Educators need to contextually build experiences with target core word instruction to grow receptive and expressive language. With respect to the fact that engagement stems from enjoyable experiences, presenters will outline steps to increase student participation by utilizing a concept called “Go and Show Vocabulary.”  “Go and Show Vocabulary” is intended to be simple, strategic, meaningful, and fun.  Participants will gain exposure to the implementation steps, data collection, and suggestions to utilize the process in a classroom setting to increase meaningful and practical AAC usage. Real life experiences of the creation, usage, and celebrations of “Go and Show Vocabulary” will be shared.