Got a caseload that includes students with severe disorders who use augmentative and alternative communication devices? SLP Robin Parker of PrAACtical AAC blog offers a way to teach more literacy skills to these clients to help them reach their full literacy potential.

Parker provides a curriculum that offers what skills to teach, reasons for teaching those skills, how to teach the skills, and videotaped examples of teaching the curriculum. She also lists research articles you can consult to better understand these skills and to serve as evidence-based support for choosing the approach.