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Make Practice Time Fun with Your AAC Learner

Score points with the AAC learners in your life with implementation ideas that make practicing with speech-generating devices fun and engaging! Our fan favorite online resources AAC Language Lab® and ChatCorner will help you plan your implementation strategies for success with AAC throughout the school year.

Win Big with AAC Language Lab

Practice skills for lifelong communication success with this comprehensive online resource developed for teachers, clinicians, and parents to support language development and communication with AAC at school, work, and home environments. Free one-year subscription ($19.95 value) with every new PRC-Saltillo device or Group Coaching enrollment.

• Fun, motivational activities perfect for the whole class or family to share
• Real-life solutions in support of language development
• Easy-to-understand lesson plans and activities that will have your AAC learner asking for more!
• Interactive materials designed for educators, parents, and speech-language pathologists (SLPs)
• Free resources including parent guides, sample lesson plans, lite-tech communication boards and more give you the opportunity to explore before subscribing
• Plus more!

All-Star Support with ChatCorner

You’ll find tools to help support language development at ChatCorner. With examples of games, simple stories, and a toolbox to help you plan your implementation strategies, you’ll have resources to make AAC communication fun! Check out all the free resources ChatCorner has to offer:

• Calendar supports
• Lite-tech communication board options
• Planning for Core resources
• Books and stories supports
• Tips for success
• And more!

 Huddle up your team and get ready to help AAC learners practice their communication skills this school year with everything AAC Language Lab® and ChatCorner have to offer!

Whiteboard has now been added to the newest 2.38 software version. Take some time today to update and get ready to have fun drawing, collaborating and sharing!

Work on Literacy and Emerging Writing with Whiteboard

Since scribbling and giving meaning to those scribbles is an important first step in developing written language, the whiteboard feature is an invaluable tool when working on literacy and emerging writing skills with your AAC learner. Providing your AAC learner with opportunities to draw using an alternative pencil in whiteboard puts them on a path to developing written language and literacy skills.

A Handy Communication Aid

In addition to being a great tool for literacy and emerging writing, whiteboard can also be used to create drawings and other visual prompts that can help aid communication, making it a very versatile tool!

Ways to Get Creative with Whiteboard:

FUN WITH COLOR

Great for drawing, practicing writing skills, and more, whiteboard comes equipped with black, red, green, blue, and yellow colors for plenty of colorful inspiration!

DRAW LINES YOUR WAY

You have the freedom to choose thin, normal, or thick line widths (thicknesses) to give your writing and drawing activities just the right look and accommodate a variety of vision challenges.

SAVE YOUR WORK

Love your drawing and want to keep it for later? Whiteboard lets you save your work, giving you the ability to load it again later so your artwork or writing is always at-the-ready!

YOUR DRAWING, YOUR WAY

Clear, Undo, and Erase functions enable you to delete or fine-tune your creations quickly and easily.

• Clear – Removes the entire drawing
• Undo – Removes the most recent addition or change
• Erase – Removes a portion of your drawing

Update your NovaChat to 2.38 today and get ready to express yourself with the new whiteboard feature!

Exclusively Designed for Parents and Family Members of AAC Learners 

You’ll knock your communication partner skills out of the park with invaluable support and guidance from our AAC Group Coaching Program. Developed specifically for parents, guardians, family members, and other caregivers of communicators using AAC, this informal, interactive program now includes four self-paced, eLearning courses combined with four live, online meetings. You’ll be learning along with a small group of other communication partners who are also supporting family members using PRC-Saltillo speech-generating devices and apps.

All-Star Results Start with Elite Coaching

Whether your AAC learner has just received a new speech-generating device or has had one for a while, you can benefit from the group coaching experience. There’s so much to learn and your group coach will become your go-to resource for effective communication strategies and more! Many parents and caregivers just like you have participated in our AAC Group Coaching Program and are continuing to score big results with their AAC learners. Listen to what a few past participants have to say!

Start the Clock on Skills You’ll Benefit from Immediately

Your AAC coach, a certified speech-language pathologist, will lead you and up to five other participants through a series of four, hour-long, online sessions that are designed to provide you with the tools you need to confidently work with your AAC communicator and become their biggest champion. Before each online meeting, you’ll have access to a new, self-paced, eLearning course that introduces you to upcoming topics. You’ll learn techniques and strategies to provide more communication opportunities and encourage increased interactions throughout this four-week coaching program that costs under $200 — that’s just $25 each for eight combined online and eLearning sessions jam-packed with invaluable resources from an SLP with expertise in AAC and vocabulary systems!

Huddle Up with Other Families

These fun, interactive meetings provide lots of opportunities for discussion with others who understand your family’s challenges. From sharing your communication celebrations to expressing a particular challenge you’ve encountered, this group format helps you develop your skills while interacting with others who may have similar experiences and input to share.  

Achieving Goals with AAC

Week by week, you’ll be building upon your communication partner skills, making you better equipped to assist your family member who uses AAC in becoming a better communicator. By learning to provide more opportunities for communication, you can see growth in:

• Increased independence
• Enhanced vocabulary use and word combinations
• Greater ability to express wants, needs, thoughts, feelings, questions, and medical concerns

Back-to-School with Effective Communication Tools

Here are just a few of the topics you’ll cover in this program:

• The importance of making your child’s communication system available across all environments
• Where to get a lite-tech back-up version of the AAC device
• Techniques for inviting individuals who use AAC to communicate with their speech-generating devices while not telling them what to say
• How to determine which vocabulary words to focus on
• And much more!

Space is limited for these popular group coaching opportunities so take a few moments to reserve your spot in an upcoming class today! You’ll learn so much, you’ll be inspired to say “put me in coach! I’m ready to play an important role in my child’s AAC journey!”

Your Back-to-School Resource for Communication Success 

Start the school year off right by training and flexing your AAC muscles with PRC-Saltillo’s AAC Learning Journey, one streamlined platform featuring a winning array of resources including e-learning classes and instructor-led trainings. You’ll score big with 24/7 access to invaluable educational resources that will equip you and your team with the knowledge you need to empower AAC communicators and help them achieve their full potential.

All-Star Learning Lineup

Whether you’re a parent searching for strategies to help your child who uses AAC or a clinician, educator, or other professional committed to expanding your knowledge, AAC Learning Journey has an array of resources tailored to your interests and time constraints.

• Live or eLearning options
• Expansive selection of free resources
• Select courses qualify for ASHA CEUs, including many eLearning resources
• Class durations that fit your busy schedule
• Beginner to advanced AAC topics
• Learning plans with courses curated to build your knowledge

Don’t Fumble, Get Started Today!

1. If you haven’t already, visit www.aaclearningjourney.com and check out an overview of the resources available. With product trainings, implementation strategies and much more, you’ll find a variety of content ranging in length to accommodate your schedule.
2. Upon selecting a course, you will be prompted to Enroll and either Sign In with your existing PRC-Saltillo account or Create an Account to complete course registration as well as to explore the entire course catalog from PRC-Saltillo.

Upcoming Live Trainings

When you’re signed in, be sure to check out the calendar on the lower right-hand corner of AAC Learning Journey’s homepage for live training opportunities on dates denoted with a purple dot. Stay in-the-know on our latest virtual and on-location trainings led by experts dedicated to a wide variety of AAC topics. These live trainings are an excellent way to immerse yourself in a subject you’re eager to learn more about while giving you opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow participants.

• Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP) – Upcoming dates: 9/9, 9/26, 10/18
• LAMP at Home: A Webinar for Parents – Upcoming dates: 8/30, 10/11
• Customizing Your Chat Device: Part 1 – 8/17
• Customizing Your Chat Device: Part 2 – 8/18
• Customizing TouchChat: Part 1 – 8/24
• Customizing TouchChat: Part 2 – 8/25
• Getting Beyond Basic Requesting – Upcoming dates: 9/12, 11/7
• Effectively Teaching AAC: Beyond the Therapy Session – Upcoming dates: 8/29, 11/7

Set Your Own Pace this Back-to-School Season

The coming weeks are busy with all the hustle and bustle that a new school year brings. AAC Learning Journey allows the flexibility to learn at your own pace while gaining knowledge you can put into practice immediately.

Where are you going with AAC? Join today to kick off this Back-to-School season and lead your team to victory!