Description:
This webinar describes the Descriptive Teaching Model, an AAC classroom teaching approach that encourages classroom use of the student’s permanent, high frequency, re-useable vocabulary within the AAC device. This approach, when paired with Aided Language Stimulation, is an efficient and effective strategy to help teachers be successful as they teach students using robust AAC devices within their general education classrooms.  This webinar will give both general education teachers and speech-language therapists the practical tools and strategies for collaborating in the development of teaching plans based on the descriptive teaching model.

Speaker Biography :
Gail Van Tatenhove is a speech-language therapist with over 30 years experience implementing augmentative and alternative communication systems.   Her professional experiences include clinical work in a self-contained special education center for children, birth to 21, and as an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) specialist on a state-wide evaluation team.  Currently, Ms. Van Tatenhove is in private practice specializing in AAC with children and adults and works as a clinical consultant with Semantic Compaction Systems in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ms. Van Tatenhove's contributions to the field of AAC are numerous and include (1) development of a school-based loaner bank of AAC devices; (2) participation in ASHA federal projects focusing on AAC implementation; (3) facilitator of the ASHA special interest group in AAC; (4) editor of the ASHA newsletter for the AAC Special Interest Division, (5) board member for the United States Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication; (6) author of Power In Play and MinTalk, two Minspeak Application Programs; (7) visiting professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; and (8) numerous clinically-based publications and (9) many national and international AAC presentations.

Learning Outcomes:
As a result of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the difference between the Referential and Descriptive Teaching Models.

2. Discuss how to implement Aided Language Stimulation as part of the Descriptive Teaching Model.

3. Develop classroom lessons based on the Descriptive Teaching Model

 

 

Additional Information: http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3847

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CEUs
This activity has been reviewed by AAC Institute and is offered for 0.2 CEUs (1.5 hour of instruction).

To register for CEUs, click on the link below to download the Evaluation and Learning Assessment Form, complete the form, and save the file using this file name model:

2010-ATIA-Webinar-Nov4-Lastname-Firstname.rtf.

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