Level 2 IPAACKS

Speech & Language Therapists

Education Professionals

This session will give you practical ideas to support AAC users in learning and
using AAC. The course will dig deep into
the reasons why AAC implementation is often tricky. We will consider the
barriers to using AAC and how we can apply theoretical frameworks as well as
real-life case studies to make AAC a success. This session will mainly focus on implementation
of symbol based AAC.

• Predict the barriers and motivators to successful use of AAC.

• Identify goal setting and outcome measuring tools.

• Apply a range of models to a client in order to set clear goals for intervention.

• Explain how Aided Language Stimulation can facilitate success with AAC.

• Describe the hierarchy of prompt fading.