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This book includes a wealth of easy to implement practical strategies that can be adopted in any classroom for maximum impact and enhance learners' communication skills. It is valuable reading for school leaders, SENCOs and teachers, as well as speech and language therapists supporting educators with the implementation of Aided Language/AAC.
List of contents
Preface
Chapter 1- More Than the Freedom of Speech
Chapter 2 - Lifting the Veil of Terminology
Chapter 3- Myths and Misconceptions: What the Research Tells Us
Chapter 4- Education is not an Island- The Importance of Teamwork
Chapter 5- What we Already Know
Chapter 6- Getting the Environment Right
Chapter 7- What is Symbolic Language?
Chapter 8- How do we Teach Symbolic Language?
Chapter 9- Modelling
Chapter 10- Language Development - The Danger Zone of Just Requesting
Chapter 11- Low Cost, Effective Resources
Chapter 12- Communication Partner Skills
Chapter 13- Supporting Access to Aided Language for Learners with Physical Disabilities
Chapter 14- Assessment and Target Setting
Chapter 15- Opportunities - Pupil Voice
Chapter 16- Whole School Approach to Supporting Learners with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCNs)
Chapter 17- Final thoughts
Index
About the author
Katy Leckenby is a Senior AAC Consultant for Ace Centre, a national charity providing support and advice to people with complex needs around the use of Assistive Technology (ATech) and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Katy is passionate about facilitating communication and removing barriers to ensure that all students can fully access education. She holds an MA in Inclusive Education and was a teacher for seventeen years, starting in Primary then moving into Special Education, where she taught young people with ASC, MLD, SLD, PMLD and complex needs.
Meaghan Ebbage-Taylor is a Senior AAC Consultant for Ace Centre and a trained Primary School teacher. She has worked within a special school, teaching pupils with a range of communication difficulties, including those who have made use of a wide range of AAC, both paper-based and electronic. Meaghan's teaching background has given her a good insight into the everyday implementation of AAC within a classroom context and how to support this to meet the communication need of individuals to get their voice heard.
Summary
This book includes a wealth of easy to implement practical strategies that can be adopted in any classroom for maximum impact and enhance learners’ communication skills. It is valuable reading for school leaders, SENCOs and teachers, as well as speech and language therapists supporting educators with the implementation of Aided Language/AAC.
