About FOUNDATIONS

FOUNDATIONS training comprises a set of free, on-demand modules to teach you essential foundation knowledge for implementing AAC. This is not device operational training, but comprehensive AAC education, to help you at all stages of the AAC process.

Our free ACCESS Training is a prerequisite to the Foundations modules, and will help you to better understand the content of this course. We strongly recommend completing the FOUNDATIONS courses in order, starting with Module 1. The content is designed for speech pathologists, but may be of interest to all members of the AAC team. Visit our website to find out about LIVE FOUNDATIONS TRAINING for your organisation.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • About this course

    • Learning outcomes

    • Summary, links & references

  • 2

    Data collection

    • Why do we collect data?

    • Low tech data collection

    • High tech data collection

    • Analysing raw data

  • 3

    Realize Language

    • Realize Language

    • Realize Language In Action

    • Questions revisited

    • Quiz

  • 4

    Data logging: from start to finish

    • Before you start

    • Step 1: Turn it on!

    • Step 2: Collect the data

    • Step 3: Get the data off the device

    • Step 4: Look at the data

  • 5

    Case Study

    • Survey

    • Case study introduction

    • Case study data

    • Limitations

    • Conclusion

  • 6

    Conclusion

    • Final notes

    • Conclusion and Summary Download