Teaching Age Appropriate Learning through Communication (TAALC) 2026

Abstract for Teaching Age-Appropriate Learning through Communication (TAALC – ‘talk’) 25-26 Proposal The Teaching Age-Appropriate Learning and Communication (TAALC – ‘talk’) Project proposes to further differentiate and expand the professional learning options available to educators, speech-language pathologists, and other related service providers. We propose to do this by continuing the 1) Communication Training Series through webinar or in-person per coop, district, or KDE request, 2) provide two five session Extension of Community Health Care Outcomes in Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) series in the Fall & Spring including a five-week follow-up for individual case studies with monthly coaching upon request; and 3) management of the asynchronous learning including Listen Up Series, Communication for Transition-age Youth and Adults Series, Peer Supports, the Administrator Series, and the Peer Support training; 5) development of up to 3 new asynchronous series to be identified – topics considered AAC for Early Childhood, Core Vocabulary, . All training activities will be certified for ASHA and ELA credit as appropriate. In new development, we propose to include new TAALC resources on the KY SPEAKS AAC website developed by HDI; and format the ECHO teaching presentations and create curated lists for teachers, SLPs, instructional assistants, and other related service providers on the HDI-YouTube Channel)