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TAALC 101: Listen Up! Series (2026)

Identifying Communication in Students with Significant Disabilities

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10 Lessons

76 Topics

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Lesson 1: Introduction

Topic 1.1: Meet Shelly

Topic 1.2: Data Collection

Topic 1.3: The AAC Connection—What the Data Reveals

Lesson 2: Identifying Communication Output

Topic 2.1: Communication Equation

Topic 2.2: Symbolic Communication

Topic 2.3: Emerging Symbolic Communication

Topic 2.4: Pre-symbolic Communication

Topic 2.5: An Observational Tool

Wrap Up & Resources

Lesson 3: Factors Impacting Communication

Topic 3.1: Motor Skills

Topic 3.2: Sensory Impairments

Topic 3.3: Socio-Communication

Topic 3.4: Cognition

Topic 3.5 Multiple Disabilities

Wrap Up & Resources

Lesson 4: AAC for Beginning Communicators

Topic 4.1: AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Topic 4.2: Features of Aided Communication

Topic 4.3: No Tech

Topic 4.4: Low Tech

Topic 4.5: High-Tech

Topic 4.6: Feature Matching for Users

Topic 4.7: Keep it Moving

Wrap Up & Resources

Lesson 5: Strategies for Building Communication

Topic 5.1: Initial Communication Targets

Topic 5.2 Respond as if Meaningful

Topic 5.3: Preference Inventory

Topic 5.4: Expect Communication

Topic 5.5: Environmental Management

Topic 5.6 Prompting

Topic 5.7: Wait Time

Topic 5.8: Authentic Communication

Topic 5.9: Aided Language Stimulation

Topic 5.10: Partner Assisted Scanning

Topic 5.11: Commenting on Engaging Activities

Topic 5.12: Effective Teaching Principles

Wrap Up & Resources

Lesson 6: AAC — Friends, Family & Favorites

Topic 6.1: Communication partners

Topic 6.2: Ecological Inventory

Topic 6.3: Social Communication

Topic 6.4: Academic Subject Areas

Wrap Up & Resources

Lesson 7: Understanding Behavior as Communication

Topic 7.1: Communication and Relationships

Topic 7.2: Functional Behavior Assessment

Topic 7.3: Identifying the Intent of Behavior

Topic 7.4: Interview

Topic 7.5: Observation Protocol

Topic 7.6: Prioritizing Behaviors for Intervention

Topic 7.7: Possible Communicative Intent or Function of Challenging Behaviors

Topic 7.8: Intervention

Wrap Up & Resources

Lesson 8: Collaborative Planning

Topic 8.1: The Evidence

Topic 8.2: Planning the Team

Topic 8.3: Step 1: Meet Regularly and Productively

Topic 8.4: Step 2: Know the Student

Topic 8.5: Step 3: Share assessment and intervention information

Topic 8.6: Step 4: Plan lessons and maximize student involvement

Topic 8.7: Step 5

Topic 8.7: Step 6: Schedule ongoing communication

Wrap Up & Resources

Lesson 9: Embedding Communication into Academics

Topic 9.1: Factors Impacting Access

Topic 9.2: Teaching New Vocabulary: Core Word of the Week Curriculum

Topic 9.3: Reading with Core Words

Topic 9.4: Making Sentences with Core Words

Topic 9.5: Science with Core Words

Topic 9.6: Games with Core Words

Topic 9.8: Wrap-up

Topic 9.7: Matrix Activity

Wrap Up & Resources

Lesson 10: Tracking Communication Progress

Topic 10.1: Review the Evaluation Data

Topic 10.2: Determine Measurable Objectives/Outcomes

Topic 10.3: Determine opportunities for teaching and data collection

Topic 10.4: Prepare Data Collection Tools

Topic 10.5: Collect and Analyze the Data

Topic 10.6: Make Data Decisions

Topic 10.7: Problem Solve

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