If you have students with AAC devices, I know you’re working on core vocabulary. Check out this fun and simple idea to incorporate some direct practice!
And if you need all the AAC resources, make sure to check out my AAC Implementation Toolkit! It contains everything you need to make AAC work in your schools. You’ll get everything you need to train staff and parents, with tons of handouts, resources, and even a training presentation! Best of all, the packet now includes activity pages for 18 core words, with all my best ideas to get lots of practice using these all important words.
Wow! Things have been busy around here lately. A new coffee shop opened up a couple blocks away (yay!), my husband and I celebrated our first anniversary, I’ve been trying to soak up every minute with my dogs this summer, and I’ve taken a couple of trips with friends and family to New Orleans and Door County, Wisconsin.
To be honest, I’ve been having some anxiety about heading back to school. I’ve been coming up with little projects to get me excited about therapy again!
I recently purchased these dry erase dice from the Target dollar section. I knew immediately what I wanted to do with them and I think they turned out well. I’m so excited to use them this school year with several of my students!
Today, I’m going to share with you how I turned simple dry erase dice into an AAC and sentence formulation activity. Links for the low-tech board I use and some dry erase dice on Amazon are included as well (in case your Target doesn’t carry these!). Enjoy!
Many of my students use Proloquo2Go so I began there. I used a low-tech board from their Core Word Classroom and cut out high frequency symbols. I used double sided tape to stick them on the sides of the dice.
As you can see, I organized the core vocabulary symbols by color to help reinforce different parts of speech.
You can learn more about color-coding in AAC here.
Below are Amazon links to dice I think would work really well:
You could use the symbols from ANY low-tech AAC board, however the ones shown in the picture were from the Assistive Ware Core Word Classroom. They have tons of amazing printables that pair perfectly with Proloquo2Go.
Pair this activity with some of my favorite tips for core vocabulary carryover!
If you’re looking for other effective materials for students who benefit from AAC, check out some below. Click on any of the pictures to learn more!
Hope that helps to give you a new core vocabulary idea or two to try out with your students who use AAC! You could roll the dice and practice making up silly sentences or use it as a simple labeling activity! Get creative!
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You are awesome great ideas !!!! I am a parent and we are introducing his first device and im always on tge look out for activities to practice his core words. It is so hard from a parent perspective to come up with activities !!! Tx so much 🙂 keep up the good work !!!!
Such a fantastic idea!!
Thank you!
I love this idea, but I’m not sure how you would put them in action or what skills to target.
It really depends on the students. For one student that loved finding different words, we rolled a single die, found the word on his device, and then practiced making up silly sentences using that word. For another student, we rolled all of the dice and combined them into silly sentences using his device. Hope that helps a little!