Children with autism often develop the ability to request preferred items and actions verbally or non-verbally, but learning other reasons to communicate (e.g., greeting, calling, commenting, etc.) supports enriched interactions for social and academic purposes. This workshop focuses on how speech-language pathologists and teachers can partner to enhance a variety of communicative functions in children with autism who operate in request-only mode.
Session Learning Objectives: The participants will
1. identify developmentally-appropriate communicative functions for a student with autism,
2. create an IEP objective targeting a communicative function other than requesting,
3. pinpoint multiple intervention contexts for modeling target communicative functions, and
4. describe how interactions highlighting a variety of communicative functions can be adapted for a child using AAC.
Presenter: Julia Eyer, CCC-SLP
This program has been submitted for approval of 3 clock hours of continuing education credit by the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing-Association (TSHA). TSHA approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.
This registration aligns with the face-to-face presentation of this content. If you prefer a virtual workshop, please register for Session #78351.