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Meet Your Kim Galant, Ph.D., is a speech-language Many young children who are beginning
Instructor: pathologist and special educator who has communicators need intervention to learn to interact
been working with children from birth to 5 and communicate with others.
and their families for over 30 years. She is AAC, augmentative and alternative communication, can
interested in the genesis of social- help children understand language and communicate
communication development, the use of their thoughts and ideas. AAC systems provide
AAC with beginning communicators, language input in multiple modalities (hearing, seeing,
effective professional development for early and touching), make the language signal concrete and
childhood personnel, and promoting static, and slow the rate of communication for both the
Kim Galant inclusion for young children with disabilities. learner and the communication partners. Learning how
Ph.D. Kim currently works as a consultant doing to use an AAC system with your child may be just the
training and implementation of AAC systems boost needed to jumpstart authentic communication.
Training and with young children. Come learn how!
Implementation
Specialist Note: ASHA credit is not offered for this class.
New class!
Designed
for Parents!
