February 17, 2019

FOCUS ON EXPRESSION:
Communicating Better!
Using AAC & Visual Communication Symbols To Teach Expressive Communication!
 

By: Don D’Amore MA CCC-SLP Speech Language Pathologist

     There was a phrase I heard when I first started working as an educator many years ago: “We learn to read, so we can read and learn!”  (We also know that students are still learning while they are at the same time learning to read.)  I think of expressive language in a similar way for our students who are showing less verbal communication than their typically developing peers.  We use strategies of Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) to assist the person who is......