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. The communication supports we offer are NOT just for non-speaking students! AAC benefits all students struggling with learning language so that they can communicate just like their peers. A 12 year old with 25 words and phrases is NOT ENOUGH. Augmentative communication simply provides visual and spoken models of language. Students can SEE the nouns and verbs. They can manipulate images to learn to build sentences and add appropriate word endings. They can use single-button prestored messages to participate fully in activities in school even before their language skills have caught up to their peers. Simply said, AAC is a GAME CHANGER for the majority of our students struggling to learn to communicate. Our end goal is speech for as many students as possible and AAC paired with speech therapy is one of the best solutions we have to offer.
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 our Bottomless "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 academic targets using our evidence based practices! Our team joins your staff in providing comprehensive AAC services for your students!
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 our Bottomless "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 academic targets using our evidence based practices! Our team joins your staff in providing comprehensive AAC services for your students!
DTA Schools: The Website!
The DTA Schools Website is the hub of DTA Schools. Ever changing with an extensive collection of materials, programs, resources, trainings and more; the DTA School Website is a place your teachers can go to learn how to build a communication classroom with over 30 resource training pages, complete with downloadable materials, rubrics, and the communication supports they need. When it's time for IEPs, your teachers and therapists have a set of IEP tools to assess present level of performance, document progress, choose from over 100 communication focused goals and plan for implementation! Your entire team, including paraprofessionals and volunteers, can watch webinars and mini-lessons to improve their communication supports with students. AAC focused therapists can learn how to complete their own AAC evaluations, and download printable communication supports to put their ideas in place immediately. There's even a year long communication program with a core vocabulary focus! All Year Core & More is a monthly go-to for many of our teachers including daily activities, communication symbols, original books and interactive activities and a huge number of links and resources.
Classroom Communication ProjectOur Classroom Communication Project is a multi-faceted program designed to engineer the classroom environment to support communication for personal needs and social interaction; to develop language & literacy skills and participate in their academic environment. Our team supports your efforts to provide federally mandated communication supports to your students with disabilities. We implement classroom engineering, staff coaching, large and small group trainings, and extensive tools and materials to ensure success!
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Individual Student AAC Evaluations, Funding & Implementation
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We provide comprehensive, systematic augmentative communication evaluations for your individual students, for the purpose of designing a communication system which best meets their needs. We also help our districts assist families in funding personal speech generating devices which means students are able to communicate and develop age appropriate language in a cohesive manner between home and school. Our team has a 97% success rate in funding communication devices through insurance and Medicaid, giving our students and districts affordable solutions to significant communication needs.
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Speech Language, Assistive Technology and AAC Workshops
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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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DTA Schools Store
Open to the public, some of our most popular materials are available for individual purchase on our School Store. If you like this sampling, you can join our DTA Schools Family with an affordable membership in the store too! Come on in! |
Customize your membership to meet your district's specific needs! We offer multiple membership options so you can choose between the types of services, resources and hours your teams need. You'll notice that our districts selecting Premier Services receive comprehensive services at up to a 20% discount! With a commitment as small as 200 hours/year, you will have access to everything we have to offer!