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May 20, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Do You Know How to Be a Good Communication Partner for AAC? Let Susan Berkowitz Show You

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Teaching a student to use AAC (augmentative-alternative communication) involves so much more than simply giving them a communication system.
Good communication partners create a positive communication environment, respond to all communication attempts, and use the child’s AAC system to communicate with them. 
There is a positive communication environment when we respond to all of a child’s communication attempts, provide support as needed, focus on positive results and successes, and find solutions to challenges. 
Even when you respond to an undesirable behavior, if you do so while also modeling how to use a correct message in the AAC system you take advantage of a communication opportunity. 
The more you practice using the AAC system, during real contexts, and increase the number of contexts in which you use the AAC system, the more automatically the child will learn to use the AAC system.
These tips and much more can be found in this free handout, which gives you lots of helpful information on how to be a good communication partner to a students who uses AAC.

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