137: All Are Welcome: How To Diversify Your AAC Therapy
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In this podcourse, I am joined by Christina Royster is the owner/founder of Play on Words Therapy, LLC. She is licensed in Maryland and Washington DC and has been practicing for over nine years. Christina specializes in working with complex communication needs and language delays. She also specializes in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), as she works on an AAC team in the public school setting. Christina is a co-creator in Diverse AAC, which aims to increase awareness and provide information related to diversifying AAC for multicultural AAC users. Christina is also passionate about increasing diversity in the SLP field. She is a member of the ASHA Special Interest Group 12 (AAC), International Society for AAC (ISAAC), Maryland Speech-Language-Hearing Association, DC Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing.
Topics/Questions:
Describe considerations related to multicultural and multilingual AAC users.
Identify current needs of AAC apps/software used with diverse AAC users.
Discuss current workarounds and solutions to diversifying AAC apps and supports.
Explore resources available to diversify AAC materials and supports.
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