Rachel Madel
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5,936 appearances
38 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2024
last heard 21 May
Rachel Madel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's so many things that are constantly changing.
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But what I feel very confident in is taking any AAC system and knowing how to support language learning through AAC.
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And so just remember that you have the tools to support language learning and the system, you know, you don't have to know all the specific details about that system.
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And the things that you don't know is one Google search away.
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Like these companies have so many resources about their products and their systems and their tools that if you don't know something,
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You'll find it.
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You have to rest assured that the information that's technical that you might not know you can figure out.
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But what what we need to spend our precious time doing when we're with communication partners is how to actually support language, how to know how to pause and ask less questions and provide more comments.
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And, you know, all of those things is where we become very skilled as speech language pathologists.
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And.
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sometimes I feel like we feel like we have to like teach how to program a button and do all these kind of more mechanical things.
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And the way I frame it is like, if I can like, you know, send you a YouTube video on how to program a button, I'm going to spend my precious time talking with you about how to integrate into your already existing routines and what word to model and, you know, all of the things that you can't Google search.
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So I just want to
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kind of reiterate that idea that we don't have to know it all, especially because the technology is always changing.
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And to really think through how we're using our time with that communication partner, with that paraprofessional, with that parent, and making really the use of our time to be towards the things that you can't Google search.
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Like, you know, all of the implementation strategies that we know can be so effective.
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I also, I have some more questions about this student.
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I'm curious if you've tried modeling spelling.
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So like, it sounds like you're trying to model the icons, which makes sense, but I would lean into the fact that the student's strength is spelling and I'm always trying to identify strengths and build off of the strengths that students are showing.
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And so I'd be curious, one, what is the student saying, you know, communicating spontaneously through spelling?
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