AAC and Literacy

Tag: video

  • Project Core Professional Development

    by Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, Department of Health Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill

    The Project Core implementation model is aimed at helping teachers provide students with significant cognitive disabilities and complex communication needs with access to a flexible Universal Core vocabulary and evidence-based instruction to teach them to use core vocabulary via personal augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems.

    • Professional Development Modules link
    • Professional Development Modules handout
    • About Project Core link
    • Link to Teaching Supports and Implementation Resources: link
    • Universal Core options link
    link to website

  • Why is Literacy Critical in AAC?

    by Karen Erickson – Director of the Center for Literacy and Disabilities Studies, UNC Chapel Hill.

    Keynote speech for International AAC Conference, 2019. 54:43

    link to video

  • Shared Reading PD Module

    by Project Core

    Training in how to participate in shared reading for students with complex communication needs who may require aac

    link to learning module page

  • Comprehensive Literacy for All

    website by Jane Farrall

    Different areas of emergent literacy are listed, with links to pages in the site that provide more detail and resources for each:

    • Shared Reading link
    • Writing with Adults link
    • Writing from Adults link
    • Writing by Myself link
    • Working with Letters and Sounds link
    • Independent Reading link
    link to website

  • Aided Language Input Project Core Module

    by Center for Literacy and Disability Studies
    Department of Health Sciences
    UNC-Chapel Hill

    (18:16) Overview of how to use aided language input strategies to show students what is possible and encourage their use of graphic symbols. Part of a larger set of video training modules aimed at supporting students with communication and emergent literacy.

    link to post

    link to PD Module