Episode 354: Brie Norton & Lynsey Phillips: Creating a Culture of Learning Language Using Augmentative/Alternative Communication
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Who are Lindsay Phillips and Brie Norton and what roles do they play in AAC implementation?
Welcome to the Talking with Tech Podcast. My name's Chris Bougay and I'm joined today with Lindsay Phillips and Bree Norton. How's it going, guys?
We're good. We're excited to be here. Super happy to be here.
We are excited to have you. Um, all right. So let's start off with our classic question, which is who are you and what do you do?
Well, I'm Lindsay Phillips. I am a AAC program director at a private pediatric outpatient clinic. Um in northwest Arkansas. There are some rural areas around here and we serve quite a big area. We have ages birth to 21. We're actually adding a adult program right now that's in process. And I work mostly with AAC users. I spend one day a week doing um implementation, evaluation, train you know, supporting families and then working with um outside providers or public providers like Burie. Um and I also like to do uh uh webinars and I am a university professor at the University of Arkansas where I teach the AAC class. Um and then most most recently Brie and I started a consulting business called Phillips and Norton Consulting where we do AAC consultations.
We support other providers with uh developing their own AAC programs and then we do workshops as well.
Awesome, awesome, and Bree.
Yes, so I work for a public school in this area, Benton Mill Schools, where I provide district wide support for our AAC users. We're a rather large school district with 20,000, about 20,000 students, with 11% of those being special education students. And we have over 200 AAC users. We like to throw I have to throw that in there. I have 199. So like I really have to rub it in. She thinks it's so impressive that she hit the two hundred mark. So I provide District wide support for those students. So they have a speech pathologist in their building that serves their IEP minutes, and I'm that other layer of support for them to achieve authentic communication. So I spend a lot of my time training anybody that will listen, all those communication partners, coaching our teams, facilitating collaboration with outside providers and families, and then troubleshooting when we hit barriers.
In addition to that, I also support assistive technology across our district. And I recently started providing LAMP trainings through the Center for AAC and PRC Sotillo. So that's been a fun little addition. And then I've enjoyed getting to travel throughout the state with Lindsay and present and help people build their programs. So it's been really cool.
Awesome, awesome. Bree, the day job, it sounds like you and I do the exact same thing, but you're in Arkansas and I'm in Virginia, right? Right? Yes. You said Bentonsville. Is that am I saying that right?
Bentonville. Bentonville. So we're in northwest Arkansas. We're the locate we're corporate headquarters of Walmart. I that's what I was gonna say. And maybe yeah. Yeah.
It's like that's why I know it, right? I put the S in there. But um for sure. Yeah. Fun fun fact, my um my wife's brother, so my my brother-in-law and his um his wife used to live there. We never got to visit, but uh we often had conversations. Yeah, it's great. It's great.
It's a very beautiful place. And we actually um and we can talk about this later, but we actually have some really cool resources here that are kind of kind of unique. um having these these larger corporations and they they bring in a lot of um Interesting ideas and other professionals that we've been um trying to partner with.
Awesome. Yeah, I would love to hear all about that. But let's come back to that corporate part partnership um in the l larger context of what we're going to talk about today, which is it sounds like you have this thriving AAC coordinated effort happening. Um tell us a little bit about that. And and really you're involving general ed in this too, right? It's not just in special ed programs. So let's talk about that.
Well, let's um to give you a little bit of context, um, Bree and I have been working together for over a decade now. I think we're we're aging ourselves, maybe. But um over a decade now. And when we um first started working together, I had recently started the AAC program at my clinic.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who are Lindsay Phillips and Brie Norton and what roles do they play in AAC implementation?
0:07–10:10
2
How did Lindsay and Brie first connect and decide to collaborate on AAC programs?
10:10–21:21
3
What is the four‑component framework they use to shift from expert‑driven to shared‑responsibility AAC models?
21:21–31:37
4
How do they train general‑education teachers to support AAC users in the classroom?
31:37–41:46
5
What strategies do they use to involve peers and promote peer‑to‑peer communication training?
41:46–51:15
6
How did the AAC CARES community group get started and what types of events do they host?
51:15–58:51
7
What challenges and solutions have they encountered when expanding AAC activities to community spaces like museums and parks?
58:51–1:00:13
8
What are their next goals for scaling AAC programs statewide and beyond?
1:00:13–1:00:29
Speakers
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