Creating goals and measuring progress for individuals who use AAC can be a challenging process for a variety of reasons, including subtle growth, environmental and communication partner considerations, and differences in language growth for individuals who use AAC. While there are available goal banks to use, these still require tweaking and may not always be appropriate for individual clients.

This course will provide participants with a goal writing framework, assessment tools, and resources so they have the skills to write meaningful goals for clients who use AAC. Participants will engage in goal writing in order to learn about the goal attainment scale, assessment with AAC considerations, and the linguistic and operational communicative competence. This course will help participants reflect on where their client is (baseline), where they want to go (goals), and how to get there (a plan).

Learner Outcomes:

1. Identify the three important components used in the provided AAC Goal Framework.
2. Define linguistic communicative competence for AAC use.
3. Define operational communicative competence for AAC use.
4. Write one goal, with at least 2 objectives, using the framework provided.
5. Three possible ways to assess linguistic competence for AAC use.

Agenda:

5 minutes - Introduction; Setting the stage

20 minutes - Explaining the AAC Goal Framework

5 minutes - Introduce Case Study

30 minutes - Review of two of the communicative competencies, with discussion of available resources and practice writing objectives for each area

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