Teaching Peers to Respond to Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Session 1

In the video above, an instructor teaches a child to respond to her peer’s communication attempts with his AAC device using a token system. The instructor (a) teaches the child what to do, (c) models what she should do, and (d) provides her with opportunities to practice and receive a reward. One benefit of using an AAC device is allowing children to communicate and develop friendships with peers. Although children may be interested in or curious about a peer’s AAC device, it is unlikely that peers will learn to respond appropriately to communication with AAC devices fluently without teacher modeling and explicit instruction. You can use direct instruction procedures (e.g., Progressive time delay, System of Least Prompts) to teach peers to respond to AAC communication (as shown above)
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