Choose Your Own Switch Adventure: Oh The Places You'll Go! (on-demand registration)
Choose Your Own Switch Adventure: Oh The Places You'll Go!
Available December 21, 2023 - November 30, 2028 | 60 minutes | 0.1 ASHA CEUs
Create your own switch toy and language adventure! This session discusses the benefits of utilizing switch access through adapted toys and pairing pretend play and peer interaction to support learning language. Learn the basic items you need to adapt toys and opportunities to provide communication and active participation through play. This session will help participants go beyond making a switch an activity for an individual with complex communication and access needs. It will take a deeper dive into the need to go further in an activity to construct language opportunities for growth using a variety of examples (e.g. high, mid, light tech) while highlighting the need for a total communication approach.
Presenter: Laura Hayes, SLP & Katherine Dally, M.S., CCC-SLP, ATP
Relevant Financial Relationship: Laura and Katherine have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Relevant Non-Financial Relationship: Laura Hayes is a Member of ASHA.
Mary Katherine Dally is a Member of ASHA, and has her ATP through RESNA.
Presenter Biography: Laura Hayes is an SLP with over 14 years of AAC experience in both school and medical settings. Laura has presented across state, national, and international conferences. She has been published and supported both inpatient pediatric and educational augmentative and alternative communication research. She loves providing training, implementation resources, and guided direction to help with success using AAC. She can be followed for more resources and ideas on Instagram @aac_innovations and at www.tinyurl.com/aacinnovations.
Katherine Dally has served as the SLP on an ALS clinic focusing AAC evaluations, voice banking and no-tech/low tech communication. She then worked as a solutions consultant for a communication device company, traveling the West side of Ohio. Currently, Katherine works as an assistive technology consultant through an educational service center and works in a preschool program as a speech-language pathologist.
Learner Outcomes
- Learners will identify 2 or more materials required for switch adaption and modeling language opportunities
- Learners will identify at least four examples of adapted switch toys and modeling opportunities
- Learners will identify and describe a resource to identify language models and functions when playing with switch adapted toys
Agenda
- Introduction (3 minutes)
- Background on Switches & Accessibility (15 minutes)
- Background on Language Needs & Accessibility (10 minutes)
- Choose Your Own Switch Activities for Practical Implementation (20 minutes)
- Summary & Takeaways (7 minutes)
- Resources & Wrap Up (5 minutes)
Cost: Free
Audience: Assistants, Students, Early Career Professionals (under 5 years), Related Professionals
Topic Area: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Language and Learning in School-Age Individuals, Language in Infants Through Preschoolers
ASHA CEU Requirements: Must complete the post webinar assessment with 80% accuracy. Unlimited attempts are allowed. Partial credit is not available.
Accessibility: Please email ableU@ablenetinc.com if you require any additional accessibility support. We will be happy to work with you!
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Refund: Refunds are not available for free sessions.