”Should I Start an AAC Business?” & Other Listener Questions

2018-10-09

This week, the TWT team answers questions from our listeners! They address the following questions: I’ve thought about starting an AAC consulting business, but I doubt at times that I have enough experience. What should I do? What do you think about recent videos from Pyramid/PECS that seem to argue that we shouldn’t introduce core words until a student has already learned a number of fringe words? How can we best talk to parents about interventions that are not evidence-based, like the rapid prompting method (RPM...

This week, the TWT team answers questions from our listeners! They address the following questions:

I’ve thought about starting an AAC consulting business, but I doubt at times that I have enough experience. What should I do?
What do you think about recent videos from Pyramid/PECS that seem to argue that we shouldn’t introduce core words until a student has already learned a number of fringe words?
How can we best talk to parents about interventions that are not evidence-based, like the rapid prompting method (RPM), when the parent has a positive opinion about it?

This is one of TWT’s most thought-provoking and interesting episodes. You won’t want to miss it!

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Links:

PECS & Core Vocabulary 1: http://bit.ly/PECSCoreVocab1

PECS & Core Vocabulary 2: http://bit.ly/PECSCoreVocab2

ASHA Position Statement on RPM: http://bit.ly/ASHARPM

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