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AAC Agreements:

Establishing Evidence-Based Universal Truths For Consideration and Implementation

Christopher Bugaj

@attipscast

www.chrisbugaj.com

Shaun Pearson

@Shaun_SLP

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Chris CichoskiKelly

@cichoskikelly

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Get the entire presentation



http://bit.ly/aacagreementsatia19

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Learning Objectives

First Learning Objective

Identify at least two of the AAC Agreements available from the current collection.

Second Learning Objective

Describe the process for how to submit at least one nomination to AAC Agreements throughout the year.

Third Learning Objective

Describe at least one process for how to add applicable research or other evidence when submitting a proposed AAC agreement.

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Speaker Disclosures

Chris co-hosts the Talking With Tech podcast which features discussions about AAC. He receives revenue from sponsors of the podcast.

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You can see all of Chris’s disclosures for ATIA (and any other endeavor) at http://bit.ly/cbdisclosures.

Chris receives royalties for the sale of the book The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome For All! and other authored works.

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Speaker Disclosures

Shaun Pearson has no Financial or Non-Financial Relationships to disclose.

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Chris CichoskiKelly has no Financial or Non-Financial Relationships to disclose.

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Today’s Agenda/Mission

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  • History of the AAC Agreements & why we need them
  • Reviewing Research/Evidence to Support Existing Agreements
  • Develop Process for Review of Submissions/Who Will Review Submissions?
  • Review & Future Steps

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NJC Communication Bill of Rights

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How Are the AAC Agreements Different than the NJC Communication Bill of Rights?

AAC Agreements are "better" practices that are crowd sourced from stakeholders invested in improving consideration, selection, and implementation of AAC. Stakeholders include (but are not limited to) practitioners, academics, designers, parents, families, and users of AAC. These agreements are supported by research whenever possible. The AAC Agreements are organic and will expand and adapt as we learn more as a field.

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Edcamp ATIA 2016

Facilitators: Chris CichoskiKelly & Chris Bugaj

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The Agreements 2016:

http://bit.ly/aacagreements

Listen To Learn:

http://bit.ly/twtaacagreements

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Edcamp ATIA 2018

Facilitators: Chris CichoskiKelly

& Shaun Pearson

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The Agreements 2018:

http://bit.ly/aacagreements2018

Listen To Learn:

http://bit.ly/twtaacagreements

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AAC Agreements 2019 - Last Night!

bit.ly/aacagreements2019

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Welcome to the Google Site

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http://bit.ly/aacagreementswebsite

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Time for Crowd Sourcing!

We need your help - please join one of the following two groups for some discussion.

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Group 1 - Reviewing Research/ Evidence for Existing Agreements

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Please review the existing agreements on http://bit.ly/aacagreementswebsite to determine if you can add any more research to support them.

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Second, please collect the group’s feedback on the website and Google forms to submit additional Agreements and research. Please choose one person to share out to the whole group.

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Group 2 - Developing a Process for Review of Future Agreements

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Please discuss how a committee will be formed to review submissions.

  • How many people should ideally be on the committee?
  • Should nominations be reviewed?
  • Should there be a term limit so people don’t feel trapped?
  • Who leads the committee?
  • How are the submissions reviewed?
  • How often should they be reviewed?
  • When should they be published on the website?
  • Other questions?

Please choose one person to share out to the whole group.

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Review & Future Steps

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  • Share Out from the Two Groups
  • Group 1
    • Add an agreement that defines modeling without using the term modeling!
    • Research, Practice and Client Preference are the three parts of Evidence Based Practices
    • Tags: access, environment, operational, strategic, linguistic, social (closeness), psychosocial factors: attitude/ confidence,/resilience, communication partner strategies, assessment, system characteristics

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Review & Future Steps

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  • Share Out from the Two Groups
  • Group 2
    • Regular face to face meetings in conferences like the QIAT group did, ATIA, Closing the Gap and local AAC meetings
    • Administrative committee, not a vetting committee
    • Multidisciplinary committee including stakeholders - AAC users, parents
    • What is the criterion for an agreement?
    • How long does discussion go on?
    • How does moderation work?
    • Clearly define the committee’s rules and boundaries
    • Working group

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Review & Future Steps

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  • Next Steps -
    • Chris CK - Create a Google form to solicit participation in a Next Steps Work Group - one more conversation via video conference.
    • Shaun will add new agreements to the website.
    • Send an email to the list.
    • Chris B will add emails to the Google Doc created at ed camp 2019.
    • Remember to use the AAC Agreements account.
    • Vicki Haddix will make us a template for people to present on the AAC Agreements at local conferences.
    • #LetsAllAgree - Chris B will check it out
    • Deanna Wagner will use Vicki’s template for Arizona

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Thank You for Attending AAC-36!

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