Help me give my students the best CORE library for their special education lessons!
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Folco's classroom raised $267
This project is fully funded
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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
Help us fill our library for our special education students who are learning to use these words each day in their classroom!
Core words or core vocabulary refers to the language that we use most frequently in our day-to-day communication.
Core words, or core vocabulary are important for AAC instruction and use in speech therapy and the classroom.
Why is core vocabulary important?
You get early buy-in because these are POWER words that help students to communicate.
You can move beyond requesting to help students voice their needs, make comments, ask questions, interact with others, talk about their feelings, and more.
Access to core vocabulary is a great way to work on oral and written skills to give students access to academic curriculum that specific vocabulary would not (Witkowski & Baker, 2012).
There’s a lot of research-based evidence behind core words. You can customize word selection for your students and their families. As a clinician, you can make clinical decisions about which words to select and use best practices during your therapy sessions.
Who can benefit from a core vocabulary approach?
You will most commonly use core words with emergent/beginning communicators.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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