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TouchChat Trainings- Each offered for 0.1 ASHA CEU
Heather Prenovost is a Speech-Language Customizing TouchChat: Part 1
Meet Your Instructor: Pathologist & Assistive Technology Consultant
who works with children and adults to help This one-hour training will step you through the TouchChat
settings menu, show you how to set up abbreviations,
them find the best way to communicate, change pronunciations, find the version, share with Social
either with their voice, with symbols, a Chat and use the new Word Finder feature. You will also
communication board, a communication learn how to choose and copy a vocab so that it can be
book, or a speech-generating device. modified, import pictures from your computer, edit buttons,
Heather believes that all people should be access the help menu and make in-app purchases for
able to share their stories, their likes, their additional vocabularies.
dislikes, their wants, and their dreams with
Heather Prenovost the people around them regardless of the **It is suggested that you have an iPad/iPod/iPhone with
M.S., CCC-SLP method of communication. TouchChat loaded on it in front of you during the training
(but not required) so that you are able to follow along and
Minnesota, Heather has worked in the public schools in get hands-on practice.
Western Wisconsin, St. Paul, MN, Anoka, MN, and now for Saltillo Customizing TouchChat: Part 2
Northern Iowa Corporation. She was a member of the AAC
team for St. Paul Public Schools for six years, This one-hour training will take you through creating,
where she supported the students and school duplicating and importing pages and editing page layouts.
teams in middle school, high school, and You will learn how to create gestures and add different
transition programs to evaluate and support button functions such as navigate and visit. Transferring
the AAC needs in those buildings. vocabulary files using AirDrop, iTunes, and iShare will also
Heather has a Certificate of Clinical be examined.
Competence from ASHA and has training with
PECS, PODD, and a variety of speech- **It is suggested that you have an iPad/iPod/iPhone with
generating devices. TouchChat loaded on it in front of you during the training
(but not required) so that you are able to follow along and
Heather holds a Bachelor of Applied Science get hands-on practice.
degree in Communication Sciences and
Disorders from the University of Minnesota,
Duluth, and a Master of Science degree in
Communication Sciences and Disorders from
Minnesota State University, Mankato.
