Module: Communication Across the Day for Complex Learners Using AAC - Micro lesson: Provide Opportunities to Use AAC
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Micro lesson: Provide Opportunities to Use AAC
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- [00:00:00.000]So, using AAC means providing those opportunities for those individuals to engage and participate
- [00:00:15.540]in everyday activities in meaningful ways.
- [00:00:18.200]So, the first step, though, towards successful implementation is to be a great communication
- [00:00:24.020]partner.
- [00:00:24.700]Just like our teachers helped us to learn, we are going to model, model, model like crazy.
- [00:00:32.300]So, communication partner skills, that's us.
- [00:00:35.240]That is us.
- [00:00:36.580]Those are those techniques that we can use to help the communicator to be more effective.
- [00:00:41.480]We are going to provide opportunities, determine specific times during the student's day that
- [00:00:48.280]training in this specific formal mode of communication to occur.
- [00:00:54.380]Now, please understand that we are going to accept all forms of communication.
- [00:01:00.480]But what we know is that we need to go ahead and prioritize a singular mode that we are
- [00:01:07.600]really going to pour some major time and effort into.
- [00:01:11.220]OK, so we are going to have times that we only work on that main mode for our student.
- [00:01:17.420]So three to five times a day throughout the day for at least five to 10 minutes.
- [00:01:24.060]We are going to work really specifically individualized one to one training for these
- [00:01:29.900]new skills if needed.
- [00:01:31.040]OK, and then inclusive generalization practice during typical daily routines.
- [00:01:36.560]So we are going to do some outside one to one, lots of practice.
- [00:01:41.460]But then we are going to make sure that that is going to they are going to have access
- [00:01:47.380]in their typical daily routine as well.
- [00:01:53.740]So I'm not for sure if any of you are familiar with Sean Henry's CAPS, but I was looking
- [00:01:59.660]at that and I just thought, gosh, I just feel like we could utilize that really specifically
- [00:02:05.600]towards communication.
- [00:02:06.880]And so I developed this form with the support of CAPS, as well as taking into consideration
- [00:02:19.380]DAG 3, the Dynamic AAC Assessment.
- [00:02:23.420]So this form is what we are going to be working through for the remainder of the day to get
- [00:02:31.580]a really robust program going on so that we can come alongside of our students, but also
- [00:02:39.400]our staff, our professionals that are trying to build this in so that we have a good solid
- [00:02:44.800]plan.
- [00:02:45.840]So this was emailed to you and we will put it in the chat as well.
- [00:02:54.820]And then the other day I created my very first PDF of this, a fillable PDF.
- [00:03:04.080]And so I will also share that with you if you would rather have this on your computer.
- [00:03:11.780]So I also have a fillable PDF.
- [00:03:14.220]But for today, it's good for us to just really sit and hash things out and have great discussion
- [00:03:20.840]and write things out so that we can truly understand what we're doing.
- [00:03:26.020]So we will look at this throughout the next couple of hours.
- [00:03:31.360]Again, we want to provide those opportunities if we really take into consideration that
- [00:03:37.280]by 18 months of age, babies have heard over 40, nearly 4,400 hours of spoken English.
- [00:03:44.200]Right?
- [00:03:44.640]And we don't expect very much of them.
- [00:03:47.980]And so, Jessica, I agree.
- [00:03:49.620]Again, we can model without expectation.
- [00:03:52.940]We don't expect it of them.
- [00:03:55.040]But we get to see them start to improve.
- [00:04:00.480]But if we really consider the way we have in the past, no more, after today, looked
- [00:04:08.820]at how we try to train in AAC, communication is about what we're doing.
- [00:04:14.720]Twice weekly for 20 to 30 minutes.
- [00:04:17.180]It would take our learners about 84 years to have the same exposure to aided language
- [00:04:24.540]as an 18-month-old.
- [00:04:26.440]And so that's not a good statistic, right?
- [00:04:30.320]And so we don't want that.
- [00:04:31.920]So no more twice a week for 20 to 30 minutes.
- [00:04:35.620]We need daily exposure, daily access for our students.
- [00:04:42.160]So what we are going to do is consider the student's entire schedule.
- [00:04:48.460]We want to consider what times a day do their peers communicate.
- [00:04:54.180]And I know that you guys are amazing and that if I asked you to put in to chat what times
- [00:05:02.060]a day do the peers communicate, you would say all times, right?
- [00:05:05.760]All times a day.
- [00:05:06.920]So we are going to consider our school hours, right?
- [00:05:12.020]And we are going to put that time into the left-hand column and then what the activity
- [00:05:17.840]is that the student is doing so that we can really start to consider then how we are going
- [00:05:24.520]to gain them access to complete exposure to this main mode of communication.
- [00:05:30.340]Thank you.
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