Upcoming SWAAAC Events
SWAAAC hosts a variety of professional development events each school year, including webinars, trainings, team meetings, and more. Check back here regularly to stay up to date with upcoming events! Please note, registration typically closes 2 weeks before a scheduled event.
Fall Training - Crafting and Discovering Wonders: A Fun Journey in Creating Materials, Unearthing Resources, and Harnessing Assistive Technology for Science and Social Studies
with Tiffanie Zaugg, PhD
Rescheduled for Tuesday, December 10, 2024
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM MST
via Zoom
Description: This engaging workshop is designed for educators eager to enrich their teaching toolkit with creative materials, innovative resources, and assistive technology (AT) for Science and Social Studies. Participants will embark on a fun-filled journey to explore key concepts in these curricula, discover how to craft engaging and inclusive teaching materials, and learn to effectively integrate AT into their classrooms. Through a blend of demonstrations, interactive sessions, and group tasks, educators will enhance their ability to design lesson plans that cater to diverse learning needs, fostering an environment of excitement and accessibility in learning.
Registration for this event has closed.
An Artificial Intelligence Toolkit for the Special Education Service Provider
with Amanda Peters
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MST
via Zoom
Description: Come learn about emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools that benefit you and your students! These tools can help you meet the individual needs of your students and dramatically cut down on your prep time. Specific AI tools that will be covered include Magic School AI, Curipod, Goblin Tools, Seeing AI, Google Lookout, and Brisk. We will discuss what you can do with the free versions of these tools.
Learn how to use these tools to generate social stories, create a vocabulary list, instantly prepare interactive slides based on any topic and at any grade level, create lesson plans in record time, adapt a lesson to a student's reading level, and empower students to creatively express themselves and be more independent readers and much more!
Registration coming soon!
Que Pasa con Bilingual AAC and Intervention?
with Rui Hernandez and Ivonne Aguirre-Hernandez
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
from 12:30-4:00 PM MST
via Zoom
Description: While best practices encourage clinicians to support all languages used by AAC users, implementing bilingual interventions often presents more challenges than benefits. This presentation will offer an overview of bilingual AAC options and strategies for personalizing AAC vocabularies. Attendees will learn practical techniques for developing engaging, relevant, and fun lesson plans that foster AAC language skills in Spanish and English. The session will also cover how to identify AAC communication partners and cultural contexts that enhance effective implementation. Additionally, clinicians will be guided on key considerations when selecting therapy targets, including the bilingual approach, family values, and the child's motivations. A framework for creating lesson plans, along with a review of bilingual resources, will be provided. Finally, attendees will leave equipped with two actionable bilingual lesson plan ideas to implement immediately.
Registration coming soon!
Conference for Assistive Technology and Education (CATE) 2025
Save the date for CATE 2025!
June 5-6, 2025
Registration coming soon!