According to Soto & Yu, 2014, AAC intervention practices should include working with the individual’s family and community to reinforce learning across the home, community, and school; understanding and supporting the second language acquisition, and acknowledging that second language learning is not helped by eradication of the first language but rather is built on a strong foundation of first language and culture; and providing tools to create a therapeutic environment where bilingualism is practiced and encouraged. Following these suggestions, we will be reviewing AAC intervention strategies through a cultural-linguistic responsive lens. In this session, we will be reviewing expansion, aided language stimulation, descriptive teaching, Milieu teaching, shared book reading, core word, and total communication intervention strategies with dual-language learners. We will identify language dominance, how to observe communication partners, identify AAC users' environments, interviewing stakeholders, identifying appropriate vocabulary, and demonstrating implementation of dual-language for bilingual and monolingual SLPs. Our presentation will include demonstration sessions of the various implementation strategies and language/literacy therapy ideas.
This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs, Introductory Level, Professional Area
To earn ASHA CEUs you must complete the courses by viewing them, provide course feedback, pass the exams with a score of 80 or more, provide your ASHA credentials, and confirm submission.
