Welcome to #AACfamily Friday (week 3)! Wondering what #AACfamily is? Read about it here. For more #AACfamily photos and fun, check out Uncommon Sense Blog after you are done here.
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First day of therapy, trialing AAC during playdoh. Rocked it!
Taking turns during activities offers natural opportunities to model, model, model!
Therapy done; time to go. And a request for a stop off on the way home.
A current fascination with Finger Family YouTube videos led to an emerging understanding of the terms "brother" and "sister". Once we figured out what he was so excitedly trying to tell me ("I am a brother!") we started working on family/relationship words with his talker. And he sang (and sang and sang) the finger family nursery rhyme (which got even better when he discovered five Little People to play the roles).
Building with Zoobs, Jr.
Initiating an interaction with his "I have something to say" symbol card.
Making choices with dad.
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On Facebook this week: I shared some AAC and AT ideas for Halloween. Have you started preparing? Now is the time to prepare and practice!
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- program the words (or phrases) in their device so they can more fully participate and say "Happy Halloween" and "Trick-or-Treat" like their peers
- check out the app Fat Cat Spooky Chat, which is a basic AAC app specifically for Halloween-related communication
- print out low tech cards like these for your child to use to communicate as they are trick-or-treating
- record "trick-or-treat" on a single message voice output device
- role play/practice trick-or-treating; Treat Street is a fun app for iOS that you could use (iPad, iPhone)
- get more inspiration from this post by Let's Talk Speech and Language: Trick or Treating with With Children Who Have Expressive Language Needs
- The Speech Knob has great assistive technology suggestions to enhance the Halloween experience in his post Switch Adapted Haunted House and Other Halloween Ideas
- Play Halloween games online with Sesame Street's Zoe or dress up Elmo
There are still two more Fridays in October to participate in #AACfamily Friday. Share a picture, story, or resource - anything AAC-related! Now, go check out Uncommon Sense Blog's post!
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