AAC & Early Intervention
AAC and Early Intervention
The fieldwork or practicum component of the project is the core experience that integrates Trainees' knowledge and skill to apply AAC with a young child and family. Trainees are required to complete an extensive fieldwork experience with one child over an extended period, typically two semesters to complete AAC assesssment and intervention that may include prelinguistic, low-tech and high-tech methods to support communication and language development with a child in the birth to five year age range. Resources to plan, develop and to implement AAC in early intervention are included below as documents, lists of websites and research articles. In addition, Trainees are invited to use the AAC Lab in Burk Hall 137 to check out equipment and to make materials.
AAC Lab, Burk Hall 137, Staffed Mondays 12-3:30pm
AAC Lab Equipment for CheckoutAAC EI Documents:
AAC Early Intervention Resource Guide
AAC Curriculum Resources
Pacer Center Open Doors AAC Device MatrixBoardmaker Website Links:
Boardmaker Websites
AAC EI Website Links:
List of Amazing AAC EI Websites
AAC EI Research Articles & Presentations:
Cress: Cress (2001) Communication Tools Model
Foreman & Crews: Foreman & Crews (1998) AAC with children with Down Syndrome
Romski & Sevick: Romski & Sevick (2004) AAC in Early Intervention
Soto: Soto (ASHA, 2005): Narrative Skills of Children who use AAC
Department of Special Education and Communicative Disorders Program
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, California 94132
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Special Education Programs
Grant #H325A040109
Funded 2004-2009
Contact:
Gloria Soto, Ph.D., Project Director
gsoto@sfsu.edu
Nancy Robinson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Co-Director
nancyr@sfsu.edu
Marci Hanson, Ph.D., Co-Director
mjhanson@sfsu.edu
Bridge School