Back To School 2025

Blast off to back to school! Your shuttle mission: connect with your students through language and communication. Embark on literacy adventures and explore constellations of core words. Let’s make AAC out of this world for you and your learners! Follow their lead and watch them take flight!

Prepare Your Classroom for Launch

PRC-Saltillo’s mission control recommends these five timeless tasks to soar with AAC at school:

• Equip your learners
• Echo their words
• Excite with lite
• Embrace the wait
• Explore with core

Put them in place and you’ll be light years ahead! Discover more about each one.

Review Your AAC Resources

• AAC Language Lab® offers lite-tech boards, lesson plans, and resources like the one-of-a-kind Getting Ready to Read program
• AAC Learning Journey™ takes you to a cosmos of learning opportunities so you can learn in the way that works best for you
• Therapy tools reflect research-based methods and make sessions fun and engaging
• Realize Language™ gives you powerful ways to monitor, measure, and maximize a student’s use of their AAC system
• Your regional PRC-Saltillo AAC consultant supports families and professional teams from a clinical perspective

Plus, PRC-Saltillo’s speech-generating devices are packed with technology for academic and communication success! Explore these features from across the Accent®, NovaChat®, Via®/apps product lines.

Orbiting Behaviors and AAC

If tricky situations involving behavior and AAC arise in your classroom, it can feel like your solar system is off kilter. Your concerns are valid. Solutions can be simple, complex, or even unexpected. Here are some clinical ideas  from SLP and Chat Software Product Owner, Brittany Toney to get you and your students back to focusing on communication.

Expand Your Bilingual AAC Universe

If you support students who use more than one language, fear not! There are some fantastic resources available to help you develop communication at school and home. Check out the top six bilingual AAC resources recommended by bilingual SLP and Florida AAC Consultant, Sarah Waldman.

Go the distance in developing amazing skills for today, tomorrow, and far into the future with these courses.

Host a LAMP & Moving Forward Training: Free Seats, Free CEUs, Big Impact

Date: Wednesday, August 13, 1:00-1:45 p.m., ET

Join us for a free 45-minute webinar to learn how hosting a LAMP™ & Moving Forward training can empower your team, support your community, and improve AAC outcomes. Whether you're a school administrator, clinic director, or SLP, this session will show you how easy and impactful it is to host.

Register today!

Boost AAC Literacy and Independence with Monarch Reader and PRC-Saltillo

Date: Wednesday, August 27, 4:00-5:00 p.m., ET

Session Leaders: Beth Waite-Lafever, MA-CCC/SLP-ATP and Allison Dennis, Curriculum Development Manager, Building Wings

Register today and expand your reading galaxy!

AAC Literacy Fusion: Comprehensive Literacy & Science of Reading Awesome Sauce

Date: Wednesday, September 10, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Session Leader: Beth Waite-Lafever, MA-CCC/SLP-ATP

Level: Intermediate

Teaching individuals using AAC how to read and write is a unique challenge! In this live webinar, we will:

• draw comparisons to comprehensive literacy and science of reading interventions
• discuss research-based components of emergent and conventional literacy instruction
• develop lesson plans that target these areas in authentic daily opportunities
• review numerous resources to help your students increase reading, writing, and skill development

Register for this ASHA course powered by scientific strategies!

Teachers and Students Minspeaking Together in the Classroom

Date: Friday, September 12, 1:00-3:00 p.m., ET

Session Leader: Kelly Fonner, MS, Special Educator and AT Consultant

Level: Intermediate

Getting educators actively involved with their AAC communicating students will help them excel! This live webinar features researched strategies and long-term practices of including AAC into life and classroom events of ECT: Environmental Communication Teaching. Participants will learn how to:

• determine the communication context of school-based activities
• describe an environmental communication plan for students on a therapist’s caseload or in the classroom
• apply facilitator support strategies for communication

Register today and experience new heights with AAC!

If you’ve traveled this far in our back-to-school universe, let us reward you with a starry discovery. There’s a new resource coming your way, and it’s going to be epic in creating a love of literacy!

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