Awe and Wonder Podcast AAC & AT S5 E8 Vision: Whitney Van Klinken

Whitney Van Klinken is a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) at Yakima Children's Village-Multicare. She talks about her experiences working with children and adults doing Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) evaluations, including for those with vision impairments. She and Brenda discuss considerations when evaluating communication systems for students who are blind or have low vision or CVI. Together they share stories of using switches with students, observing vision behaviors and examples of the power of presuming competence.

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

Children's Village- Multicare https://www.yakimachildrensvillage.org/

Hand under hand technique: https://www.nationaldb.org/media/doc/HandUnderHandTechnique_a.pdf

Partner Assisted Scanning (PAS): https://www.cajonvalley.net/Page/20599

PODD communication books: https://www.novitatech.com.au/podd-communication-books/

Adapted Switch Labs (ASL): https://www.asl-inc.com/

Low vision and assistive technology blog by Veronica Lewis: https://veroniiiica.com/