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Norfolk Public Schools highlights AAC rollout: 'Every Panther Has a Voice'
Summary
District staff presented a pilot program standardizing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools and core boards across Little Panthers Preschool and Bel Air, saying the effort has helped about 22 students communicate and reduce challenging behaviors.
At a Norfolk Public Schools Board of Education meeting, district staff presented a multi-site pilot to standardize augmentative and alternative communication, or AAC, tools for preschool and elementary students.
The presentation, led by Melissa (district staff member), described a system the district calls the NPS core board and packaging of that core across devices and laminated sheets so students can move from low-tech core boards to iPad-based systems with the same layout. "This is entitled Every Panther Has a Voice," Melissa said as she introduced the project and credited Abby Coffin, a special education teacher at Bellaire, and other speech-language pathologists and technicians for designing the materials.
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