AAC Literacy & the SLP Webinar Series: Foundations for Assessment & Instruction
Sat, Sep 12
|The AAC Academy Platform via Zoom
Build your confidence in assessing emergent literacy and integrating evidence-based reading and writing instruction into your work with AAC users.
Time & Location
Sep 12, 2026, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM MDT
The AAC Academy Platform via Zoom
About the Event
AAC, Literacy, & the SLP is a 3-part, 6-hour live online learning series designed for speech-language pathologists and other professionals who support AAC users and learners with complex communication needs. Led by Beth Poss, MA, CCC-SLP, the series explores the connections among communication, language, reading, and writing and provides practical, evidence-based approaches for assessing literacy development and integrating comprehensive literacy instruction into language intervention. Each 2-hour course is offered for 0.2 ASHA CEUs. Learners may register for one or more individual courses or participate in the complete three-part series for a total of 0.6 ASHA CEUs (6 PDH).
Course 1: Foundations for Assessment & Instruction begins by exploring how literacy develops, how that development may look different for learners with complex communication needs, and the important role SLPs can play in supporting emergent literacy. Participants will explore practical tools for assessing literacy skills, examine what comprehensive emergent literacy instruction does—and does not—look like, and…