Please enjoy the variety of content from our Practitioners.
Title | Speaker | Description | Length | Year | Video Link |
| The Power of Partner Assisted Scanning: Getting Started with Students | Paige Buckingham and Christina Kerr | Direct access or pointing to a symbol may not work for all students. Partner Assisted Scanning can be a powerful alternative access option for students to interact with communication systems or engage with the curriculum. In this session participants will learn about partner assisted scanning and how it can be used with students with complex physical and communication needs. Participants will leave with strategies and activity ideas to get started with partner assisted scanning to encourage communication and increase participation in the classroom. | 1 hour 28 minutes | 2023 | |
| Huh, What Did You Say? Communication and At Strategies to Support Fluctuating Hearing Loss in Students | Shelly Harden | On any given day in a classroom 1 in 6 students have a conductive hearing loss. Fluctuating hearing loss can be caused by simple head colds where students unknowingly have fluid in their middle ear. This impact on hearing can manifest in students as difficulties with attention or even behavioral outbursts. If, on average, 45% of classroom time is spent listening to the teacher’s voice, what strategies and assistive technology tools can support students. Dr. Harden, a long time educational audiologist will share insights into intermittent student hearing loss. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss best practices for communication strategies and assistive technology that can be embedded into daily routines. | 1 hour 15 minutes | 2023 | |
| A Tour of Assistive Technology Options | Karin Rasmussen | In this session you will learn about the range of assistive technology available from low to high tech options for students with disabilities. | 10 minutes | 2024 | |
| Building Inclusive Futures: Strategies for Crafting Policies Around Assistive Technology | Sam Moran, Emily Kaplan | This practitioner presentation will empower other professionals in the field with practical strategies for developing system wide guidance around Assistive Technology (AT). Join Emily and Samantha as they describe how they identified needs in their agency for shared vocabulary and strategies they implemented to create consistency with AT services. The session will blend best practices with real-world examples, providing practitioners with actionable knowledge to enhance their organizations' AT guidance and build educator awareness. | 46 minutes | 2024 | |
| Eye Gaze Considerations for AAC Users with Visual Impairment | Anna Cyr, Paige Buckingham | This session is designed to empower educational teams, including Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) and Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (TSVIs), with the knowledge to effectively utilize eye gaze heat maps for optimizing communication devices. Participants will learn the significance of eye gaze data in determining the ideal placement of symbols on communication devices, ensuring these tools are tailored to individual visual patterns and needs. We will cover vision-related questions that should be addressed by the team, such as field of vision, impact of visual complexity and color perception. Attendees will learn to integrate information about a student’s vision into selecting and customizing the features of communication devices. | 56 minutes | 2024 | |
| 3D Printing for Assistive Technology | Barb Sullivan | This course is an overview of 3D printing- what it is, how to find pre-made models, software and websites for design, and examples of items created for assistive technology support and how they can be used to help students. Participants are taken through the sequence of where to start and how to proceed to a finished product. | 50 minutes | 2025 | |
| Writing Quality IEP Goals for AAC Users | Emily Kaplan | This session is designed to shift perspectives on goal writing, making the process more approachable and manageable. It introduces practical tools, including the DAGG3, to provide clear touchpoints and guidance for identifying meaningful, individualized goals for students. Emphasizing a strength-based approach, the session highlights strategies for building on students' existing skills to foster growth and success. | 18 minutes | 2025 | |
| AAC Buy-In with Stepping Into AAC | Janelle Burris, Emily Kaplan, Kristin Wiebe | Securing successful buy-in and establishing effective collaboration for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) implementation can be a challenge. This session goes beyond the resource itself. Our presenters, who have utilized the Stepping into AAC 20-week online video series, will share their practical, on-the-ground experiences. Join us as they discuss key takeaways, highlight which supports and strategies proved most effective, and share critical lessons learned to significantly improve AAC implementation outcomes across your district or agency. | 1 hour 1 minute | 2026 |