Welcome To DTA Schools
A little about us
DTA Schools provides the AAC Services your district needs to ensure ALL of your students can communicate. Augmentative and Alternative Communication options allow students with severe language, speech and communication difficulties the ability to participate and learn in the classroom setting. Research confirms that language development impacts intellectual growth. Benefits include on-site assessment and training; funding support for individual student communication devices; training materials, activities and tools for your staff; and access to a "Members Only" website, giving your team all of the AAC supports they need in one place! Let us help your students show progress on their goals and meet their GAA targets using our evidence based practices! Our team joins your staff in providing comprehensive AAC services for your students!
Speech Language, Assistive Technology and AAC Workshops
We have a wide variety of workshops to help your special education teachers, assistive technology teams, speech & occupational therapists, and paraprofessionals get started assessing and implementing language, literacy and communication for your special needs students! We even have a workshop geared toward administrators. Workshops are held in your facility and can include as many participants as you can house. We can also provide more individualized training to assist local teams in troubleshooting communication and educational needs for individual students. Very affordably priced, and included in our services for contracted districts!
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General Objective
To build local competence in assessment and provision of communication supports to improve listening, speaking, reading and writing for students with significant communication needs. Targeted audience are self-contained special education teachers, preschool special needs teachers, paraprofessionals, and speech/occupational/physical therapists.
Specific Objectives
Teachers and direct support staff will…
Teaching in the Core Word Classroom
AAC Partner Strategies: Core, SMORRES & More
Classroom Communication Goals: Implementation in the Classroom
Classroom Communication Goals Grid: IEP Prep
Augmentative & Alternative Communication Systems: Inside and Outside of the Box!
Language and Communication Evaluation with Minimally Verbal Students
AAC Skills Assessment: Evaluative Treatment
Speech Generating Device Evaluation: Pursuing a Personal Communication Device
To build local competence in assessment and provision of communication supports to improve listening, speaking, reading and writing for students with significant communication needs. Targeted audience are self-contained special education teachers, preschool special needs teachers, paraprofessionals, and speech/occupational/physical therapists.
Specific Objectives
Teachers and direct support staff will…
- Evaluate individual current communication skills related to academic environment.
- Effectively develop communication goals and document progress for individual education plans.
- Competently use targeted strategies for encouraging the development of communication, language, writing and reading skills
- Engineer the classroom environment to support communication through visual supports including core vocabulary displays, environmental labelling and materials development.
- Assess the communication opportunities in their classroom and develop lesson plans to encourage skill demonstration
- Exhibit basic knowledge of the components of a comprehensive communication system in order to effectively model for and teach students the use of their AAC systems.
Teaching in the Core Word Classroom
AAC Partner Strategies: Core, SMORRES & More
Classroom Communication Goals: Implementation in the Classroom
Classroom Communication Goals Grid: IEP Prep
Augmentative & Alternative Communication Systems: Inside and Outside of the Box!
Language and Communication Evaluation with Minimally Verbal Students
AAC Skills Assessment: Evaluative Treatment
Speech Generating Device Evaluation: Pursuing a Personal Communication Device