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Meet Your Instructor: Meghan Conover, B.Sc., CDA has over 20 Beginning Steps to Integrate AAC in Your Classroom
years’ experience working with children and
adults using augmentative and alternative But my student can’t talk, how do we expect them to
read and write?! Can an AAC device really assist in
communication. Her clinical experience
includes a variety of school and hospital developing literacy? Communication and literacy are
settings working in Canada and the United directly connected. By increasing the skills for one, we
States. To support individuals using AAC enhance the learning for the other skill. Students using
devices, she presents frequently regarding AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication)
devices can often be successful in a one on one therapy
implementation strategies in her local state
of Colorado as well as nationally and environment but trying to integrate the device into an
internationally. By assisting the whole AAC academic setting can be difficult. This course will
team, it is her goal to increase provide participants with an overview of modeling, core
Meghan Conover, communication to help individuals reach vocabulary and basic skills to integrate literacy in the
B.Sc., CDA their own unique potential. classroom. In order to increase communication for
students using AAC (Augmentative and Alternative
Colorado
As the Language Coordinator for Saltillo, she Communication) devices, it is important to develop
has been involved in the development of the reading and writing skills for these individuals. In
Saltillo aphasia, scanning, Spanish and addition, reading and writing are critical to academic
French-Canadian vocabulary files. As new success. Participants will learn about specific
implementation skills and features to increase
vocabulary files are developed, they open
doors to meet the communication needs of communication and literacy in the classroom.
a more varied population. Each new
request directly impacts the development
possibilities for the future. It is her goal to
continue listening, creating and expanding
the opportunities for people to
communicate.
