Free AAC Workshop Coming to the University at Buffalo September 26th!

AAC Therapy is Just Language Therapy
Presented by Gail VanTatenhove, MS, CCC-SLP

Gail Van Tatenhove is in private practice, working with children and young adults who use AAC devices. Her
contributions to the field of AAC include development of a loaner bank of AAC devices; participation in ASHA
projects on AAC implementation; editor of the ASHA newsletter for the AAC Special Interest Division, past
president of FSAAC, and board member for USSAAC.

Intended Audience
This workshop is appropriate for speech-language therapists, classroom teachers, classroom assistants, and
family members of individuals using AAC.

Workshop Description
Many individuals who use AAC systems have language disabilities in conjunction with their inability to
speak clearly. Some may struggle with the most basic rules of interaction and conversation, while others
have difficulties developing and composing messages independently. For individuals within school
settings, these difficulties have significant educational impacts.

This workshop

* challenges some of the practices in AAC intervention that focus on extended vocabulary rather than core vocabulary
* addresses issues that are clearly maddening for many therapists, teachers, and family members provides simple strategies that place the focus on talking with core vocabulary and promoting long-
* term generative language development
Strategies with materials are presented that show how to promote language development in four areas: early communication participation, vocabulary versatility, sentence building, and conversational give and take.

Participants will review principles of motor learning in relationship to language development and use of core vocabulary. Small group activities will be used to help participants learn how to engage in Aided Language Input and Language Modeling. All participants will receive a copy of a manual
communication board with 300+ core words for Aided Language Input and Language Modeling.

Registration through the PRC Consultant Secretaries is required. Please call (800) 848-8008 to register.

Location and Time:
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006 at the University at Buffalo
Biomedical Education Bldg., Dept. of Comm. Disorders & Sciences

Sign in: 8:00-8:30am
Workshop begins at 8:30am; Concludes at 3:30pm
There is no fee to attend.

The Prentke Romich Company is approved by the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech- Language-Hearing Association to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and
audiology. This program is offered for 0.5 CEUS (Introductory Instructional level; Professional area). ASHA CE Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.

This Event is Co-Sponsored by:

The Center for Excellence in Augmented Communication: A Signature Center of the College of Arts and Sciences