Online Video Training for Teachers to Improve Reading Skills in Children Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Launched by OSTFOLD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE · Jan 3, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

Children with disabilities who require AAC may experiance challenges in various areas development, including communication skills, speech, language, cognitive and conceptual development, literacy, social participation, access to education, and overall quality of lifte. Acquiring reading skills may lead to higher levels of communication. Students who require AAC may be more dependent on others to provide and teach symbols to represent their language. Acquireing reading skills, may incrace the possibility to independently express themselves, and increace their access to for example text based...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • ages 6-14 years,
• • diagnosed with intellectual disability, confirmed by multidisciplinary assessments carried out by the Child rehabilitation service,
• • not have a functional speech, i.e. require AAC to understand and make oneself understood,
• • must use AAC as their primary form of communication,
• • cannot follow ordinary curricula (LK20) but have their own education plan.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • having a severe visual impairment and not being able to decode single words (e.g., severe hearing impairment).