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The website of Chris Klein, a person who using his big toe to access an AAC device.

Every A.T.TIPSCAST episode tagged "AAC"

What if we didn't need brain breaks because movement was built in to the lessons and activities? What if we designed the learning experiences with movement in mind?

"What factor is very important in student achievement? Mike Kuczala talks about the value of movement in teaching and learning. Mike Kuczala is the coauthor the Corwin Bestseller and Association of Educational Publishers' Distinguished Achievement Award nominated, "The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning through Movement," a book and philosophy that has changed the view of teaching and learning around the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx"

What happens when students take charge of their own learning?

Updated for 2016!

Supplemental materials that correspond to IMAX movies.

LCPS educators can watch IMAX movies for free at the National Air and Space Museum.

Slide deck related to a presentation on teaching language to students who use AAC by planning meaningful activities all day long. It reviews critical components including core vocabulary, motor planning/memory, aided language stimulation, language development, classroom implementation strategies, planning for language all day long, data collection, and more!

Slide deck for a session by Chris and Melissa Bugaj at the 2016 Inspire Loudoun conference about Google tools.

Slide deck for the Twitter 101 session at the 2016 Inspire Loudoun conference.

The PHaVE List - A list of phrasal verbs with regard to frequency.

Does anyone explicitly teach the most frequent or first to emerge phrasal verbs to users of AAC.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the gradual development of verb-particle constructions in child language by examining longitudinal data from the spontaneous oral speech of Naima, an English-speaking girl from the Providence Corpus of the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000; Demuth, Culbertson & Alter, 2006), between ages 0;11 and 3;10. My findings also support the claim that input and interaction play a major role in the language acquisition process. Indeed, by analyzing the emergence and usage of phrasal verbs by Naima, I will thus compare the top ten verb-particle construction types used by the child and the adult. Ultimately, I will show the correlation between the most frequently used phrasal verbs in adult speech and the earliest constructions acquired by Naima

Slidedeck featuring the 5 patterns of Minspeak

A podcast featuring conversations with speech pathologists and others interested in helping people with communication disorders