The Department of Speech and Hearing Science offers a 6-week intensive AAC Summer Program. The 6-week program will consist of two groups.

• 2 hours session, once per week
• Days offered – Wednesday
• Time offered – 9-11AM, & 2-4PM

Location Clinic – University of Illinois Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology Clinic

Registration is due by May 16th

Camp fee – $360 per participant

Interact with peers who also use AAC. Important benefits to engaging with peer models. Normalize the use of AAC to communicate.

• Fun ways to practice social interactions using AAC that might not otherwise be readily available.
• Generalization of skills learned across contexts and settings. For example, children will be able to practice skills such as formulating multi-word utterances on their AAC systems in novel situations and contexts.
• 1:1 ratio for school-aged children who use AAC to a graduate student clinician. This ensures high-quality services for the children and clinical experience for graduate student clinicians.
• Combinations of both personalized/individualized + group approaches. Camp attendees will take part in opportunities one-on-one with student clinicians, where they will be able to practice personalized social and linguistic skills. Camp attendees will then engage in group activities (e.g., crafts) where they will be able to use language and engage using their AAC systems in fun activities with peers. This will also provide opportunities for learning novel vocabulary and practicing multi-word combinations (as appropriate).
• Opportunities for language expansion – new vocabulary
• Opportunities for new experiences for a typically underserved population

The Department of Speech and Hearing Science offers a 5-week intensive summer literacy program for school-aged children. The 5-week program will consist of two groups of four school-aged children.

• Twice a week, 2 hours a session
• Days offered – Tues and Thursday
• Group A will meet from 9:00-11:00AM
• Group B from 2:00-4:00PM

Location Clinic – University of Illinois Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology Clinic

Registration due by 05/30/2025

Camp fee – $360 per participant

Each participant will be charged an additional $100 for an evaluation.
Participants in the program will receive explicit literacy instruction in both a group and individual setting. The daily schedule will include group activities for the first 30 minutes, followed by an hour of individual instruction, and a final thirty minutes of group. Students will learn how to plan and execute both group and individual therapy, collect data in both settings, and work on a team. Students will complete an end of session report, and a

• 5-week Intensive Literacy Program: T/R June 24th – July 24th.
• Group A 9:00-11:00am and Group B 2:00-4:00pm
• Parent Conference: August 5th and 7th. One hour per child during their regular session time.