AAC aided Literacy
AAC aided Literacy
"No student is too anything to be able to read and write"
-David Yoder - Literacy Lecture, ISAAC Conference, 2000.
The following are a range of links to research and resources around AAC and Literacy.
Useful Resources
- 30 days has September
A poster showing the number of days in each month. - Scrambled Eggs Recipe
A visual recipe for scrambled eggs made in the microwave. - Fried Rice Recipe
A visual recipe for fried rice. - Colour and Transport Book
An interactive book for describing vehicles by colour. - Colour and Noun Book
An interactive book for describing items by colour. - First Then Charts
Visual supports used to represent, order and track tasks or events. 2-3 tasks. - Timetable Visuals
A wide range of PCS suited for K-12 Key Learning Areas and classroom activities. - Proloquo2Go Core Vocabulary
A screen shot of one of Proloquo2Go's core vocabulary templates. A great resource to model and teach the skills need to manipulate Proloquo2Go, to teach core vocabulary, or use as a PODD template. - Literacy Fact Sheet
A fact sheet on literacy provided by Speech Pathology Australia. - Syllable Segmentation
Some activities to develop syllable segmentation. - Activities for Rhyming
Three games/activities that can be played to practise rhyming skills. - Session Plan Classroom Based Language Therapy - Animals
A lesson plan for a classroom based language therapy session focusing on 'animals' written by Kate Meredith (Speech Pathologist) - Aided Language Stimulation - 'WH' Questions
An Aided Language Stimulation board for 'WH' Questions. - Aided Language Stimulation Board - Brown Bear
An Aided Language Stimulation Board for the story 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?' - AAC Vocabulary Checklist Stage 5
This checklist corresponds with the signs and symbols in AAC - Starting Out Stage 5. - AAC Vocabulary Checklist
This checklist corresponds with the signs and symbols in the AAC - Starting Out booklet. - AAC - Starting Out Stage 5
This booklet is an addition to AAC - Starting Out and contains Stage 5 symbols and signs. - Name and Address Template
An augmented worksheet to practise writing personal details. - Morning Work Sheet 2
A daily worksheet using Picture Communication Symbols for children to circle the day, weather and feelings. - Morning Work Sheet 1
A daily worksheet for children to fill in their name, the date, day, weather and feelings. - Message Board
A visual support for locating people and places. - Fantastic Mr Fox
An augmented worksheet for 'The Fantastic Mr Fox' - Character Descriptions - Mr Fox
A worksheet about the character Boggis from 'Fantastic Mr Fox' - Recount Scaffold Prompt - What?
A poster to use as a prompt for the question 'What?' - Recount Scaffold Prompt - Where?
A poster to use as a prompt for the question 'Where?' - Recount Scaffold Prompt - Who?
A poster to use as a prompt for the question 'Who?' - Recount Scaffold Prompt - When?
A poster to use as a prompt for the question 'When?' - AAC - Starting Out
This booklet contains some Boardmaker symbols and the corresponding signs for vocabulary used frequently at school. - General Features of a Recount
Information from the Board of Studies 'English K-6 Modules' - Recount Scaffold - sentence example
An example of a student’s work using a recount scaffold. - Recount Scaffold
A template to assist students in creating a simple recount. - Weekend News
A template to assist students in creating a simple recount of some events they participated in over the weekend.
Useful Links
- The Four Blocks Way
A link to the School of Special Education (North West) and a description of the Four Blocks Literacy approach. - Literacy for All
A link to the website of Caroline Musselwhite with a focus on inclusive literacy. - Literacy and Disability
A link to David Koppenhaver's Disability and Literacy website - The Center for Literacy and Disability Studies
A link to the webpage for the research centre for literacy and disability in North Carolina USA - Sign.com.au
This website contains resources to help learn and teach Signed English language, including a complete dictionary containing almost 3,000 words. - Literacy Jane Farrall
Blog posts on literacy by Jane Farrall. - Talk Sense weebly
101 Ideas for literacy and AAC - Literacy for Beginning AAC Learners
A blog post from Praactical AAC sharing activities and intervention strategies for literacy lessons. - Speech & Language Kids
Activities, plans, resources, tutorials & eBooks developed by a speech therapist. - Jane Farrall Literacy
This page has links to information on balanced literacy for all students. - Jane Farrall Guided Reading Packs
This page provides resources to enable students with complex communication needs to participate in guided reading sessions.