by admin | May 1, 2025 | Communication Partner Instruction, Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
May is National Speech-Language-Hearing Month and this year’s theme is “envisioning possibilities for the future.” This theme invites us to consider where have we come from and where we are going. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is...
by admin | Nov 11, 2024 | Communication Partner Instruction, Family Resources
In 2006, Sarah Blackstone wrote, “Being an effective communication partner or AAC facilitator is not intuitive. It often requires one to change long-established, unconscious ways of communicating” (p. 12). And changing habits can be hard! Does using your...
by admin | Feb 14, 2023 | Communication Partner Instruction
If you’re using the SMoRRES® Training Program to educate families or school staff to model AAC, you already know that Controlled Practice and Feedback is Step 5. Indeed, in order for communication partners to learn a new skill, they often need practice. Perhaps...
by admin | Mar 4, 2022 | Communication Partner Instruction
Parent education in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) has been linked to positive changes in children’s communication including improvements in spontaneous communicative utterances, new words, and comments. Furthermore, improvements in family confidence...
