(COMING SOON!) Tele-AAC Essentials: Facilitating Effective Communication Sessions

Course Description

In this self-paced course, you’ll learn to facilitate effective Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) sessions that support student communication in a virtual therapy setting. Through lectures, reflection activities, and examples, you’ll gain foundational skills for planning meaningful sessions and making informed decisions to support communication growth across all AAC levels.

Instructors: Lelis Nolasco-Garcia

Lelis Nolasco-Garcia, M.S., CCC-SLP

Lelis has practiced as a bilingual/AAC clinical Speech-Language Pathologist in the medical (15 years), public school (25 years), and telepractice (9 years) settings treating clients across the lifespan. Her emphasis has been working with Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), non-verbal or limited verbal communicators due to multiple disabilities, rehabilitation of patients in geriatric and pediatric settings after CVA, TBI, & dysphagia. Additionally, Lelis has also worked with Culturally & Linguistically Diverse populations. Lelis has been a contracted SLP with Presence since 2016 where she was responsible for assessing and treating bilingual students and students with AAC needs. She has also created content for the Presence Library and hosted several clinical workshops related to bilingualism and AAC.

• Financial Disclosures: Lelis has been a contracted SLP with Presence since 2016 and received honorarium from Presence for this presentation. Lelis hosts bilingual and AAC clinical trainings for Presence and other companies. Lelis is a content creator at Presence, author, creator, and small business owner of Speech and Language Therapy Cafe where she creates and sells materials via Teachers Pay Teachers.
• Non-Financial Disclosures: Lelis is the author of the website Speech and Language Therapy Cafe at Weebly, where she shares free resources and tips with her SLP peers. Lelis creates various materials for bilingual and AAC students and she has been a guest in Todd & Kim’s telepractice podcast. Lelis is an ASHA member and ASHA ACE Award Recipient.

Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists

Education Level: Introductory

Time Ordered Agenda: 

• Course Introduction (5 Minutes)
• Foundations of AAC (2 Minutes)
• Tools and Technology for Tele-AAC (10 Minutes)
• Planning Effective AAC Interventions (24 Minutes)
• Conducting an AAC Assessment (36 Minutes)
• Goal Writing for AAC Users (10 Minutes)
• Conclusion (3 Minutes)

Contact Hours: 90 minutes

Cancellation Policy: 

Continuing education courses are offered at no cost to contracted and employed Presence providers. In the event a course is canceled, the participants will have the option to attend a rescheduled event offered within 60 days of the canceled course.

Please note: Registered participants who register for live courses but do not attend or cancel with less than 24 hours notice may have future course registration restricted after three documented incidents.

Accessibility Policy: 

Our courses are intended to be accessible by addressing the needs of not only people with mobility impairments, but also those with sensory impairments (i.e., hearing, speech, vision), and emotional or learning disabilities. Available accommodations include but are not limited to Closed Captioning, color contrast, transcription of auditory and visual information, as well as adjustable font sizes. Please contact asksupport@presence.com to request additional accommodations.

Complaint Policy:

Any course concerns should be directed to asksupport@presence.com within two weeks of course completion.

Completion Requirements: 

To earn a course certificate, participants are required to complete the course, pass a quiz with 80% accuracy, (3 attempts are allowed), and complete a course feedback survey.

Please download your certificate upon completion of the course.