Core Connect AAC
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West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States
About the store
As a dedicated educator with extensive experience in teaching young children, I am here to help teachers meet a wide range of student needs by creating resources that are highly engaging yet easy to prepare. I have hundreds of pre-academic and early academic materials available for you to select from, and most come in both a print and digital (drag and drop) format. Colorful, interactive and attention grabbing, these resources are sure to be a favorite with your students whether you elect to use them for circle time, individual instruction, online learning or homeschooling.
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Communication Rating Scale for Severe Autism and Related Disabilities
This is a classroom-based observational rating scale designed to be used with non-verbal/pre-verbal students. It is a criterion-referenced assessment that can be used to evaluate students of any age who are in the very early stages of communication development. It can be completed by a special education teacher, speech pathologist or a special education team. Use this rating scale to assess your lowest students. It gives you the ability to assess those who are otherwise not able to participate
PreK - 5th
Other (ELA)
Core Word of the Week Lesson Plan Template | Editable | Special Ed Classroom
UPDATED TO INCLUDE THREE TEMPLATE STYLES. Use these lesson plan templates to organize your circle time or group time activities for the week. Recommended for preschool through grade 5. **************************************************************************************** IncludedYou will receive a 17-page editable PowerPoint Presentation file in a zip folder. *************************************************************************************** Customer Tips:How to get TPT credit to use o
PreK - 5th
Vocabulary
The Polar Express | Interactive Slide Show | Special Education | Autism AAC
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDES | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use with distance learning. The Polar Express travels the tracks, and picks up children along the way. Students click or tap to make the train COME and then GO for the children. This activity has a winter, not Christmas, theme mak
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Summer Train Express | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show | Early Intervention
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in preschool and early intervention classrooms. The Summer Train Express is coming down the tracks, but colorful beach objects are blocking the way. The train needs help to go on its way to the Summer
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Go Bus Go | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show | Autism | AAC
If you download this freebie, please leave a review - even if it's just two words. I would really appreciate that. Thank-you. This is a fun school bus freebie to enjoy with your students! School busses drive away, and engines roar all on a click or a tap. Great practice for the core word, GO! I create simple grab and go interactive PowerPoint show activities to use with a Smartboard for busy teachers with limited plan time. You will find these to be highly engaging during circle time or gro
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Bubble Pop | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show | Early Intervention | Autism AAC
If you download this freebie, please leave a review - even if it's just two words. I would really appreciate that. Thank-you. INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use with distance learning. On a click or tap, bubbles pop to reveal small pictu
PreK - 3rd
Reading, Vocabulary
Do You Like School Lunch? | Interactive Slide Show | AAC Core Vocabulary
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students tap or click either a happy face or a sad face to answer the question, "Do you like _____," in response to the pictured school lunch item. Once clicked, the faces disappear and either the sentence, "Yes, I do," or "No,
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Bus Ride | Interactive Slide Show | AAC Core Vocabulary | Early Intervention
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students click to make the school bus COME to pick up a a waiting friend. The school bus then GOES down the street to pick up someone else. It continues on its way, COME and GO, until all five students are on the bus. It at last a
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Rainbow Pop Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDES | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. On a click or tap, a colorful balloon pops until all 20 are gone (after 20 turns). You will get two versions that allow you to differentiate. Version One is an easy format where students click or tap anywhere on the screen to pop a balloon. Studen
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Whistle Stop Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in the preschool and early intervention classrooms. Students click or tap to make a colorful steam engine slowly come out of the tunnel and stop sounding its whistle. This is a must have activity for yo
PreK - 3rd
Reading, Vocabulary
Also included in: Whistle Stop Bundle
The Windy Day | Interactive Slide Show | PreK | Early Intervention | Colors
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDES | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students click or tap to see the wind blow away a snowman's hat only to be magically retrieved by a colorful bird and placed back on his head. The colors (12) included in this activity are: Red, blue, green, yellow, black, white, pink, purple, or
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Turkey Dinner | Interactive Slide Show | PreK | Early Intervention | Autism
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDES | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in the Preschool, Kindergarten and Early Intervention classrooms. Students click or tap a task box to PUT tableware and food items ON the Thanksgiving table for the turkey family. Of course the meal is 100% vegetarian! Items to
PreK - 3rd
Reading, Vocabulary
Load the Pumpkin Wagons | Interactive Slide Show
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. On a click or tap, students load pumpkins onto the wagons. When five pumpkins are loaded, the tractors pull the wagons away. There are four different colored tractors (red, blue, yellow and purple) to load with a total of twenty
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Do You Like Thanksgiving Dinner? | Interactive Slide Show
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDES | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students tap or click either a happy face or a sad face to answer the question, "Do you like _____," in response to the pictured Thanksgiving dinner item. Once clicked, the faces disappear and either the sentence, "Yes, I do," or "No, I do not,"
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Transportation Puzzles | Autism AAC | Kinder | PreK | Early Inter | Special Ed
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD PUZZLE SLIDES | FUN SOUND EFFECTS. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these colorfully realistic photo puzzles on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. A transportation item is gradually revealed as a puzzle is completed. FEATURING:20 beautiful 4- piece photo puzzles of fun transportation - ice cream truck, jet ski, scooter, train and more.Sound effects as pieces are clicked into place.Great fo
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Stop and Go Sight Word Trains | Interactive Slide Show | Kindergarten, 1 and 2
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SIGHT WORDS TRAIN SLIDESHOW ACTIVITY WITH FUN SOUND EFFECTS AND ANIMATION. Students click or tap GO to see the train travel down the tracks to the train signal and stop. Tap or click again to see the red STOP signal turn back to green again to send the train on its way. Hear the whistle blow through-out! Includes 3 Individual PowerPoint Show files:38 Kindergarten Sight Words 33 First Grade Sight Words 34 Second Grade Sight Words FEATURING:Animated - The trains travel dow
K - 3rd
Reading, Sight Words
Halloween Train Rescue | Interactive Slide Show | Early Intervention
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in preschool and early intervention classrooms. The Halloween train is coming down the tracks, but the colorful Dot Monsters are blocking the way, shivering, quivering and making noise. The train needs HELP to g
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Do You Like Summer Picnics? | Interactive Slide Show
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDES | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students tap or click either a happy face or a sad face to answer the question, "Do you like _____," in response to the pictured picnic item. Once clicked, the faces disappear and either the sentence, "Yes, I do," or "No, I do not," appears with
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Train Puzzles | Autism AAC | Kinder | PreK | Early Intervention | Special Ed
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD PUZZLE SLIDES | FUN SOUND EFFECTS. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these colorfully realistic photo puzzles on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. A train is gradually revealed as a puzzle is completed. Includes 20 well known trains: The Flying Scotsman, Canadian Pacific, Amtrak, The Bullet, Union Pacific, Hogwarts Express, Canadian National, Trans-Siberian Express, CSX, The Blue Train, Gr
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Do You Like Christmas Dinner? | Interactive Slide Show
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDES | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students tap or click either a happy face or a sad face to answer the question, "Do you like _____," in response to the pictured Christmas dinner item. Once clicked, the faces disappear and either the sentence, "Yes, I do," or "No, I do not," app
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
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About the store
Experience
As a dedicated educator with extensive experience in teaching young children, I am here to help teachers meet a wide range of student needs by creating resources that are highly engaging yet easy to prepare. I have hundreds of pre-academic and early academic materials available for you to select from, and most come in both a print and digital (drag and drop) format. Colorful, interactive and attention grabbing, these resources are sure to be a favorite with your students whether you elect to use them for circle time, individual instruction, online learning or homeschooling.
Teaching style
Children respond to engaging and colorful resources. As teachers, we can use resources such as interactive books, worksheets, Smart Board PowerPoints or song videos to help students learn.
Awards & shining teacher moments
I was recently made a life member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA).
My own education history
I received both my Bachelor and Master's degrees in Speech Pathology from Michigan State University. I am a licensed speech pathologist in the state of Michigan.
Additional biographical information
Now retired, I spend a lot of my time creating and updating activities for my store. I work at my own pace!
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