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Meet Your Betsy completed her undergraduate and AAC: Ready-Set-Goal! Part One
Instructor: graduate coursework at the University of Creating goals and measuring progress for individuals who use
Missouri, where she earned a Master’s of Health AAC can be a challenging process for a variety of reasons,
Science in Speech-Language Pathology. After including subtle growth, environmental and communication
graduating in May 2010, Betsy worked as a partner considerations, and differences in language growth for
speech language pathologist in a pediatric individuals who use AAC. While there are available goal banks to
outpatient clinic, rehabilitation and long-term use, these still require tweaking and may not always be
care setting, and an Applied Behavioral Analysis appropriate for individual clients.
(ABA) school. Working in these settings gave her
a range of experiences with individuals using This course will provide participants with a goal writing
augmentative alternative communication (AAC) framework, assessment tools, and resources so they have the
Betsy Clifford across the life span. Betsy began working as a skills to write meaningful goals for clients who use AAC.
M.H.S., CCC-SLP consultant for Saltillo Corporation in February of Participants will engage in goal writing in order to learn about
2015, and currently supports Southwest Iowa, the goal attainment scale, assessment with AAC considerations,
Kansas, Nebraska, and Western Missouri. and the linguistic and operational communicative competence.
Southwest Iowa, This course will help participants reflect on where their client is
Kansas, Nebraska, (baseline), where they want to go (goals), and how to get there
(a plan).
Western Missouri
AAC: Ready-Set-Goal! Part Two
This course follows AAC: Ready – Set – GOAL! Part One. In Part
Two, we will continue to address the unique challenges of
writing goals for individuals who use AAC, including differences
in language acquisition, environmental considerations, and
communication partner considerations. Rather than reviewing a
New Class! bank of goals, in this course, we will continue to use the goal
2-part series! attainment scale and SMART terminology as a framework for
writing meaningful goals.
AAC-GOALS!
This course will pick up with covering the communicative
competences for AAC, taking an in depth look at social and
strategic communicative competencies. Participants will engage
in goal writing in order to learn SMART terminology. We will
discuss monitoring progress, as a goal is only as good as your
ability to measure it. This course will help participants reflect on
where their client is (baseline), where they want to go (goals),
and how to get there (a plan).
