Denise Szymczak MA, CCC/SLP
  • FALL GIF FUN!
  • Nasal Emission
  • /k/ 3 Shark vs Train
  • Gross motor games for speech
  • Pete the Cat
  • Dinotrux
  • Szymczak'z summer speech stuff
  • Eye gaze communication
  • Touch Chat
  • Songs with gross motor sequences, Pre-K
  • Snap Core First
  • ProLoQuo2Go
  • Training #1 WRMS 9/10/2021
  • Training #2 WRMS 10/1/2021
  • Training #1 EE, 10/7/2021
  • Training #3 WRMS 10/8/2021
  • Training #2 EE, 10/14/2021
  • HALLOWEEN YOGA
  • WINTER HOLIDAY YOGA
  • Grid 3
  • STXBP1
  • 49-XXXXY
  • /k/ 3 Duck on a Bike
  • SUMMER 2022!!
  • /l/3 Spooky Wheels on the Buss
  • AAC / middle & high school
  • AAC / CCN users video links
  • Tobii training links
  • SMoRRES 1
  • AAC secondary videos
  • SMoRRES 2
  • SMoRRES 3
  • AAC training videos by slps
  • stops Happy Birthday Cookie
  • stops- Happy Birthday Cookie Monster
  • PALS WARM UP SONGS

AAC References

Journals

Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, ASHA SIG12 

Articles

Baker, Carrillo, Stanton- 12/2011:  200 a Day the Easy Way

Ball & Lasker,4/2013 ASHA Perspectives on SIG AAC:Teaching Partners to Support Communication for Adults with Acquired Communication Impairment This article has really good descriptions of  communication partner qualities, considerations and preferences.

Beeson, Higginson, Rising- 6/2013: Writing Treatment for Aphasia: A Texting Approach 

deVeney et al, 6/2012  JSLHR: Communication-based Assessment of Developmental Age for Children  with Developmental Disabilities

Kaiser & Wright, 4/2013 ASHA Perspectives on SIG AAC:Enhanced Milieu Teaching: Incorporating AAC Into Naturalistic Teaching With Young Children and Their Partners Excellent rundown of the components of reciprocal interaction between client and therapist,.


Kent-Walsh &Binger, 4/2013 ASHA Perspectives on SIG AAC Fundamentals of the ImPAACT Program Detailed protocol for partner training.

King, Hengst, DeThorne -4/2013 : Severe Speech Disorders: An Integrated Multimodal Intervention 
 
McNaughton & Chapple, 4/2013 ASHA Perspectives on SIG AAC : AAC and Communication in the Workplace Information on real workplace demands for AAC users and how they meet them, includes statements and impressions from AAC users.  Several mentions of the importance of the AAC users' actions to make communication partners comfortable with their disability and their equipment/communication mode. Several mentions of AAC users making  things funny when something became uncomfortable.


Sohlberg,2/15/2011 ASHA Leader :Assistive Technology for Cognition Good article defines terms, functions, obstacles for use of tech by people with cog impairment.

Simmons- Mackie-4/2013 ASHA Perspectives on SIG AAC   A  Systems Approach to Training Potential CommunicationPartners for People with Aphasia    Considerations for developing " an organizational and social context that values and encourages supported communication."  Another money quote: "Piecemeal training of groups of potential communication partners usually is insufficient for effecting sustainable changes in communication support behavior. Rather, we need an approach that involves analyzing what is required at a systems level, identifying probable systemic barriers to implementing communication support, and employing methods of overcoming barriers and facilitating uptake of communication support practices."

 Thiessen & Beukelman, 4/2013 ASHA Perspectives on SIG AAC Training Communication Partners of Adults Who Rely on AAC: Co-Construction of Meaning Considering communication and learning styles of  AAC partners

Thistle & Wilkinson, 4/2012, Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication What Are the Attention Demands of Aided AAC? Good rundown of how board design facilitates efficient message formulation

Wilkinson et al, 5/2014,
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