Event Date:Tuesday, November 20th
Event Time:6pm Pacific (9pm Eastern)
Speaker:Nancy Brady, Ph.D.
Description:
Standardized assessments are of limited value for individuals who communicate nonverbally or with very few words. Dr. Brady will discuss how to combine information from caregiver report with information from structured assessments to describe how individuals communicate with gestures, vocalizations, signs, symbols as well as spoken words. She will describe a communication scale called the Communication Complexity Scale that she and colleagues developed to describe communication development starting with awareness of one’s surroundings up through beginning word use.
Bio of Nancy Brady, Ph.D.
Nancy Brady, Ph.D. is a professor at the University of Kansas. She has been conducting research on communication assessments and interventions for over 20 years. She is a certified speech language pathologist and has over 40 publications.