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Volume 2, Issue 3 (Suppl) J Speech Pathol Ther
ISSN: 2472-5005, an open access journal ISLPC 2017
May 22-23, 2017
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May 22-23, 2017 Las Vegas, USA
International Conference on
Speech Language Pathology
Sandra M Grether, J Speech Pathol Ther 2017, 2:3,(Suppl)
Using core vocabulary with AAC for developing and supporting language and literacy skills in the
classroom with learners with special needs
For students to have future academic and personal success, it is important for them to be competent using both oral and
written communication. This workshop will focus on using a core language system to support students in developing
language to be competitive in the classroom. Participants will learn how to incorporate core language using both low and
high tech augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems. Case studies will be shared and participants will
have the opportunity to collaborate with other participants applying this core language approach with learners across settings.
Additional interventions and strategies will focus on teaching students with special needs emergent and conventional literacy
skills.
Biography
Sandra M Grether is a Speech-Language Pathologist III at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati, College of Allied Health Sciences. She is responsible for interdisciplinary student leadership training
and research in prelinguistic communication with individuals with significant intellectual disabilities, impact of cognition on language in pediatric hearing loss and
cognitive disabilities, childhood apraxia of speech and augmentative communication. She has been with CCHMC and UC for 17 years and a Practicing Clinician
for 43 years.
Sandra M Grether
University of Cincinnati, USA