- 11:00 am Eastern, January 14, 2025
- online via Zoom
- Register: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuduCqrTgiGN0kytjWx9quBlfb4kJicTke
Communication is a right for any person. Many students with significant disabilities struggle with developing language. Many families and teachers have difficulty understanding their communicative attempts or finding ways to help these students communicate their wants and needs. The Communication Matrix is a tool that assesses expressive communication for beginning communicators, regardless of their age. These are individuals who have communication skills exhibited by typically-developing communicators between birth and 24 months of age. This webinar will show the components of the Communication Matrix, as well as additional resources for targeting appropriate instructional strategies.
Nancy Steele is an Educational Consultant, with expertise in children with significant disabilities, including deafblindness. She taught deaf and deafblind children in Kentucky for 17 years. Then Nancy served as a Project Specialist for the National Center on DeafBlindness (NCDB) for 14 years. she recently completed work on the WVDE Communication Matrix Intervention Modules for the West Virginia Department of Education. Nancy lives in Kentucky and enjoys being outdoors and hanging out with her grandchildren.