{"id":3048,"date":"2020-10-02T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/ihd\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2020-10-02T12:43:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:43:36","slug":"3048-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/3048-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote AAC Assessments\u2014Tips, Considerations, and Unexpected Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/at3centerblog.com\/2020\/08\/18\/remote-aac-assessments-tips-considerations-and-unexpected-surprises\/\">Remote AAC Assessments\u2014Tips, Considerations, and Unexpected Surprises<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) assessment is to identify appropriate communication technology for a user with complex communication needs. The AAC Specialist (a speech-language pathologist), often in collaboration with an occupational therapist, assesses the end user\u2019s communication needs and abilities to make these recommendations\u2026It\u2019s a tall order for a Zoom call. Yet in this time of Covid-19, increasingly remote AAC assessments are happening. AT3 News and Tips has discussed remote AAC assessments with assistive technology (AT) service providers in Massachusetts and Arizona.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>With insights from the Institute for Human Development at Northern Arizona University: Staci R. McCauley and Nikkol Kramer Anderson. Also, many thanks to contributions from Jill Pleasant, Associate Director of the Institute for Human Development, NAU.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remote AAC Assessments\u2014Tips, Considerations, and Unexpected Surprises \u201cThe goal of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) assessment is to identify appropriate communication technology for a user with complex communication needs. The AAC Specialist (a speech-language pathologist), often in collaboration with an occupational therapist, assesses the end user\u2019s communication needs and abilities to make these recommendations\u2026It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/institute-human-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}