Parents' Corner

Parent Support Liaison

The AAC Institute also has a Parent Support Liaison, Robin Hurd. Robin is available at parents@aacinstitue.org for one-on-one help to parents in need. She also works to connect parents and educators together as a team, and to provide them with the information they need to effectively teach children who use AAC. In addition to writing the Parents Corner for the AAC Institute, Robin writes a monthly column for NASA’s Southeast Regional Clearinghouse (SERCH) titled, Access Science. The focus of this column is teaching science and math to students with special needs. It can be accessed at: http://serch.cofc.edu/special/accessscience.htm

Robin can also be found at various conferences around the world. In 2006, she attended ISAAC, CSUN conference on disabilities, NASA’s Exceptional Needs Workshop (enws), Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Closing the Gap, GIFTSNC and the EAST conference on science and disabilities. In 2007 she will be at ICE (Independence, Community, Empowerment) in Toronto, Council for Exceptional Children, AAC Institute Symposium, and PEC (Pittsburgh Employment Conference), just to name a few.

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