2008 Symposium Agenda

June 13 - 14, 2008

Sheraton Station Square
Pittsburgh, PA

 Day 1

TIME

TOPIC

Location

SPEAKER

9:00 AM

Registration & coffee

  

 

9:30 AM

Charge to the symposium

  

David Chapple

10:00 AM

Keynote: Providing High-Quality, Multi-Level Writing Instruction for Students with Complex Communication Needs

 

 Janet Sturm

11:30 AM

Break –
Exhibit/Poster area

  

 

12:00 Noon

Lunch –
walk about in Exhibit/Poster area

  

 

1:30 PM

Data, Data, Data: What Can it Tell You?
Power Point Slides

 

Robin Hurd 

2:30 PM

Break –
Snacks in the Exhibit/Poster area

  

 

3:30 PM

Words Their Way:
Expanding literacy for AAC users.

Power Point Slides --- Handouts

  

Rose-Marie Gallagher

5:00 PM

Adjourn first day

 

 Day 2

TIME

TOPIC

Location

SPEAKER

9:00 AM

Overview of Resources at AAC Institute

Katya Hill

9:15 AM

The Effects of Integrated Reading, Spelling and Communication Instruction: Research Results from Three Students with Complex Communication Needs

Gretchen Hanser

10:10 AM

Brief Break

10:20 AM

Evidence on reading skill development
and AAC

Gretchen Hanser 

11:15

IEP goals panel discussion

TBD

12:15 PM

Door Prizes and
Summary discussion

Robin Hurd

12:30 PM

Adjourn

 

 

 

David Chapple is the secretary of the AAC Institute. He has a degree in software engineering, is a remote troubleshooter for an AAC manufacturer, and is a person with a speech communication disability who uses AAC assistive technology.

 

Gretchen Hanser, MS OTR is with the Center for Literacy & Disability Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Gretchen is completing her dissertation in the field of education with an emphasis on literacy instruction for children with complex communication needs and physical impairments.

Robin Hurd is the mother of 10 year old twins who use AAC and powered wheelchairs. She is also the author of Parents' Corner.

Rose-Marie Gallagher, M.Ed., has been involved in Special Education for 22 years as a special educator, inclusion teacher, and as the parent of a child with multiple disabilities.

Janet Sturm, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Associate Professor, Department of Communication Disorders at Central Michigan University (CMU). Dr. Sturm is interested in understanding how best practices of writing instruction can be used with students with developmental disabilities.

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