Motivation Matters
In this course, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how typical language development can be used to select aac targets, how to identify methods for identifying learner preferences and strategies for introducing aac targets.
Speaker Name
Cindy Gevarter, PhD, BCBA-D
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
Define how knowledge of typical development can be used to select appropriate AAC targets for children with autism
Identify methods and resources for determining learner preferences/motivators for children with autism that go beyond preferred items
Describe strategies for using motivation to introduce AAC targets the involve different word classes, pragmatic functions, and syntax skills
Cindy Gevarter, PhD, BCBA-D
Dr. Cindy Gevarter BCBA-D is an associate professor in the University of New Mexico’s Speech and Hearing Sciences Department. She received her PhD in early childhood special education from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests center around neurodiversity-affirming approaches to serving autistic children and their families, as well as supporting the clinic education of SLP graduate students who will work with neurodiverse populations and/or are neurodiverse themselves. Her areas of expertise and interest include naturalistic developmental behavioral communication interventions, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), family centered and culturally relevant early intervention. graduate clinician instruction, cascading coaching models, and inter-professional collaboration. She is the project director of the OSEP funded Project SCENES and Project MESA graduate training grant programs.
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