PDResources Adds New ASHA Continuing Education Course on AAC Strategies

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Sept. 10, 2013 - PRLog -- Professional Development Resources (www.pdresources.org), a nationally-approved (ASHA, APA, NBCC, ASWB, AOTA) provider of online continuing education (CE) is pleased to announce a new course entitled, AAC Strategies for Individuals with Moderate to Severe Disabilities (https://www.pdresources.org/course/index/3/1163/AAC-Strategies-for-Individuals-with-Moderate-to-Severe-Disabilities), to its online CE catalog for speech-language pathologists (SLPs), psychologists, counselors, social workers, occupational therapists (OTs), and other allied healthcare professionals.

With more children and young adults with severe disabilities in today's general education classrooms, SLPs, OTs, PTs, educators, and other professionals in school settings must be ready to support their students' communication skills with effective AAC. This text provides proven strategies from top AAC experts to help readers establish a beginning functional communicative repertoire for learners with severe disabilities.

Professionals will start with an in-depth intervention framework, including a guide to AAC modes and technologies, variables to consider when selecting AAC, and how AAC research can be used to support practice. Then they'll get explicit, evidence-based instructional strategies they'll use to help children and young adults initiate, maintain, and terminate an interaction.

To help guide their interventions, professionals will get a CD-ROM with more than 35 blank forms and sample filled-in forms, plus helpful hints, research highlights, case examples, and chapter objectives. They'll also have a step-by-step primer on monitoring each learner's performance, including an overview of different types of measurement systems and when to use each of them.

The go-to guide to the latest evidence-based AAC strategies, this research-to-practice book will help improve communication and quality of life for learners with a range of significant disabilities.

Professional Development Resources is approved by the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. Learn more about this course, and view other course offerings, online @ https://www.pdresources.org/.