November 4, 2024 8:30 am-11:30 am Register Here
During this virtual training participants will learn to:
- Informally
assess communication forms, functions, and motivators in the classroom.
- Identify
how diverse communication styles affect academic and social learning.
- Create
learning environments to support diverse language levels and communication
styles.
- Develop
low and high tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication systems to support
learning AAC for non-speaking and minimally verbal students.
- Prepare
effective visual supports to improve communication and to reduce challenging
behaviors.
- Describe
the double empathy problem and identify solutions to reduce mis-attunement in
the classroom environment between neurotypical and neurodivergent peers.
Dr. Angela Barber was named Chair of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Samford University in 2022. She previously served as Department Chair of the University of Alabama Department of Communicative Disorders. Barber’s teaching, clinical work, and research focus on autism and social communication in early childhood. Her primary research looks at improving accessibility to effective early identification and interventions for children with an increased likelihood for autism by building cooperative and sustainable solutions that promote health equity. As a licensed clinical Speech-Language Pathologist, she combines evidence-based practice into instructional settings and real-world applications to bridge the research to service gap experienced in rural and underserved areas. Barber also studies the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in CSD Programs as it relates to preparing students to work with minimally verbal individuals. She has received grants to support her and her students’ participation in community-based research.
