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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Gingerbread Man Run 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. Great also to use in the Preschool and Early Intervention classrooms. The gingerbread man flies into view with a shopping bag and stops. A sentence appears at the bottom of the screen naming the toy in his bag. Students tap or click the gingerbr
PreK - K
Reading, Vocabulary
Smart Turkeys Stop and Go | Interactive Slide Show | AAC Core Vocabulary | PreK
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | 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 see a school bus entering the scene and stopping at the school crossing where a "smart" turkey holding an item is waiting on the sidewalk to cross. Students click or a tap the
PreK - 2nd
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
Hurrah for the Thanksgiving Day Parade | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | 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 watch as the Thanksgiving Day parade balloons and floats head down the street and hear the cheering crowd and kids. The balloons and floats stop mid-screen for a close inspection only to go again with a click or a tap. The parade ends
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
Christmas Train Rescue | 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. Students watch as the Christmas train races down the tracks. But wait - the forest and farm animals have lost their way in the snowstorm and have wandered onto the train tracks STOPPING the train. Students must HELP the train by clicking or tapping
PreK - K
Reading, Vocabulary
Patriotic Parade | Interactive Slide Show | PreK | Early Intervention
NTERACTIVE 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. This cleverly created parade activity's red, white and blue theme offers you the versatility to use with your students on all of the patriotic holidays: President's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Martin Luther KIng Day, Constitution Day, Flag Day
PreK - 2nd
Vocabulary
What's in Santa's Sleigh | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show | Christmas
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDESHOW ACTIVITY | FUN SOUND EFFECTS. Students click or tap Santa’s Sleigh to see a toy (and word) appear. Hear jingle bells and Ho-Ho-Hos as the toys appear in the sleigh. Santa is peeking in the window, and since the image is an animated GIF, it really looks like peeking! Santa is seen wishing everyone a Merry Christmas at the end. A cute elf is standing next to the sleigh as if to check off the toys on his list. A little mouse in a Santa hat scampers across the s
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
Spooky Stop | Interactive Slide Show | Early Intervention | ACC Autism
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 the Preschool, Kindergarten and Early Intervention classrooms. Ghost families driving colorful ghost cars GO and then STOP at the stop sign on a click or a tap. Spooky eyes appear/disappear behind the stop s
PreK - K
Reading, Vocabulary
Colorful Candy Cane Farm Animal Treats | Interactive PowerPoint | Christmas
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Use this engaging PowerPoint on your laptop or Smartboard to help your students practice core word, WANT. Great to use in the Preschool, Kindergarten and Early Intervention classrooms. Students tap or click the farm boy to see him take a colored candy cane from his basket and give it to an awaiting farm animal. Includes 10 farm animals: Cow, goat, horse, pig, turkey, goose, sheep, chicken, cat and
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
The Christmas Parade | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | 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 watch as the Christmas parade balloons and floats head down the street and hear the cheering crowd and kids. The balloons and floats stop mid-screen for a close inspection only to go again with a click or a tap. The parade ends with a
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
Here Comes Santa Claus | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show | Christmas
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Use this engaging PowerPoint on your laptop or Smartboard to help your students practice core words, HERE and COME. Great to use in the Preschool, Kindergarten and Early Intervention classrooms. Students will see Santa driving his car down "Santa Claus Lane" only to stop at a panicked Rudolph who sees forest animals in the way. Students help by tapping or clicking the forest animals to make them trav
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
Ghostly Stop and Go | Interactive Slide Show | AAC Core Vocabulary | PreK
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | 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 see a school bus entering the scene and stopping at the school crossing where a ghost holding an item is waiting on the sidewalk to cross. Students click or a tap the ghost to
PreK - 2nd
Vocabulary
Pumpkin on the Run | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Use this engaging PowerPoint on your laptop or Smartboard to help your students practice core words, I, GO and HELP. Great to use in the Preschool, Kindergarten and Early Intervention classrooms. Students will see a pumpkin friend running down the sidewalk and stop at the Halloween house. Various friendly Halloween characters stand by the door and shout, "Boo!" The pumpkin friend yells, "Help!" Stu
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
Thanksgiving on the Farm | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | 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 the bushel basket each farm animal brings to see what Thanksgiving dish was made with each type of vegetable. For example, Sheep brings a bushel basket of potatoes to make mashed potatoes. Both the food items and matchin
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
The Bunny Bakery | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show | AAC Autism
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | FUN SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students learn to identify colors and practice the core words I and WANT using this animated Spring/Easter activity on your computer or smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students click or tap a colorful bunny cookie in response to the request of the children at the bakery counter. Example: "I want a pink cookie, please." The selected cookies then spin and zoom to the awaiting children who then reply, "T
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
Turkey Chefs Counting | Interactive Slide Show | Autism AAC | Early Intervention
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | FUN SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students count up to 10 and practice the core word OPEN using this animated Thanksgiving activity on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students tap the oven door to OPEN it to reveal various bake goods the silly turkey chefs have made. Students then count the bake goods (1 through 10) and then tap or click the correct number in the task box at the bottom of the slide. Each number i
PreK - 1st
Numbers, Reading, Vocabulary
I Like Thanksgiving Dinner | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | 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 the question mark on the screen to finish the sentence, "I like...". Once clicked, a Thanksgiving food item appears on the table in front of the boy, and the name of the item appears on the screen as well accompanied by
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
Halloween Counting | Early Intervention | PreK | Autism AAC
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | FUN SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students count Halloween characters up to 10, describe and practice the core word ALL using this animated Halloween activity on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students count the animated Halloween GIF characters (1 through 10) on the slide and then tap or click the correct number in the task box at the bottom of the slide. Each number is represented two times giving you a total of 2
PreK - 1st
Numbers, Vocabulary
A Visit to the Tree Lot | Interactive Slide Show | Christmas | Autism AAC
|INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDESHOW ACTIVITY | FUN SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students practice the core words IN, HELP and GO using this animated Christmas activity on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students click or tap the screen to see a tree lot tree magically appear in the truck and the kids looking out the window. The truck then starts up and travels with the tree in back off the screen. Hear the engine start and go. This animated interactive smartboard sl
PreK - 2nd
Vocabulary
Decorate the Christmas Tree | Interactive Slide Show | PreK | Early Intervention
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD CHOICE BOX SLIDESHOW ACTIVITY | FUN SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students learn to make choices, identify colors and take turns all while practicing the core words PUT, ON and MORE using this animated Christmas activity on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. This interactive slide show has four entertaining activities where students click or tap a choice box at the bottom of the slide: Multi-colored ornaments, multi-colored presents, solid-colore
PreK - 1st
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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