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19 October 2020

October is AAC awareness month, lets give children the opportunity to try something new.

~ Simone

#SLP #speechtherapy #smalltalk #AACaware20 #AACThere is much talk in AAC about ‘presuming competence’ and ‘presuming potential.’ But there is still some confusion about what this means.

From an interview between Erin Sheldon & Karen Erickson:

“Presuming competence does not mean we pretend there is no disability. It means we can still teach you, regardless of the disability.”

This goes back to “All means all.” It doesn’t mean that every person has an immediate understanding of language and literacy. It does not discount the fact that learning autonomous communication and authentic literacy will be a lot of work. Instead it recognizes that:

“[Students may] require significant accommodations to remove their specific access barriers in instruction, materials, and assessment. These accommodations generally require “extensive, repeated, individualized instruction and support, substantially adapted and modified materials, and individualized methods of accessing information to acquire, maintain, generalize, demonstrate and transfer skills across settings.” (Erickson & Geist 2016)

It’s work! But comprehensive literacy instruction is possible and necessary for ALL learners.

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I encourage you all to listen to this interview! If you're interested in more information – or you're curious why there is such an emphasis on literacy in the field of AAC, find links to two resources mentioned above at my linktree: https://linktr.ee/rachaellangleyaac ... See MoreSee Less

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