Today I went to one of my very happy places - an AGOSCI conference. I love AGOSCI. The Australian AAC Community is so inclusive and supportive - and extremely clever! The AGOSCI 2017 conference was fabulous as always - and I'm just sorry that for the first time in 25 years I'm not attending the whole thing.
As promised to those who attended, I'm sharing two of the presentations I was involved with here.
The first presentation is "The Right to Write" - about the importance of writing as a component of any literacy instruction but also as an important life tool too. You can see this presentation (minus the videos) below:
The second presentation is one I was lucky enough to do with the amazing Sally Clendon. "Never too late" is about literacy teaching with older secondary school aged students. Both Sally and I believe literacy is important at any age while someone is still learning to be an independent reader and writer - but we also acknowledge that sometimes there are other priorities with students who are leaving school soon - and this is an example of how we are working with some schools to combine those priorities.
Please note - both presentations have some photos and all video removed. We hope that they are still useful.
And for those of you who are there - enjoy the rest of AGOSCI and dance up a storm at the dinner!
Kelly Fonner (@KellyFonner)
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