Make the Connection

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Make the Connection
Author: Susan Berkowitz, M.S.,SLP
Category: Nonfiction-Education –
Communication Disorders
Publisher: Herding Cats Press
Format: 6×9” Paperback
ISBN-13 978-1945533013
Pages: 292
Price: $29.95
Shipping weight: 1.1 pounds
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Contact Info: john@heartfirepress.nexonpress.com

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This book aims to forge a partnership between parents and speech-language pathologists as they both strive to teach nonspeaking children how to communicate with alternative-augmentative communication modes. The book offers easy-to-follow advice and practical strategies, as well as basic definitions and types of AAC. Susan explains about assessment, intervention, and follow-up, and she provides reallife examples of how to incorporate communication into daily routines and home and classroom activities. This is the book families and professionals alike have long been waiting for.

Marketing & Publicity

The author is advertising the book on a wide variety of social media outlets, and in trade publications. There is also a mass mailing campaign to SLPs and to organizations that represent parents of special needs children; such as the Autism Society. The author will continue to leverage social media platform with evergreen efforts, including a variety of video outlets, blog posts, media interviews and speaking engagements.

About the Author

Susan has been a speech-language pathologist for 40 years, and has worked with nonverbal children with Autism for 45. She has worked in a wide variety of settings and consulted to school districts & families alike. She has been published in peerreviewed journals and presents at national and international conferences. She creates and sells AAC implementation materials at susanberkowitz.net

Praise for Make the Connection!

“Thumbs up for “Parents and Professionals as Partners: Teaching the Nonverbal Child to Communicate with AAC”! This book is a musthave for the professional toolkit of clinicians and caretakers working with pediatric AAC clients. It provides a practitioner- and familyfriendly overview on critical topics to make AAC implementation a success. An essential contribution to the

Oliver Wendt, PhD, Associate Editor, Augmentative and Alternative Communication

“This book is the tool that allows you to shorten your learning curve and better serve your clients or children who use AAC, a must for
anyone expanding communication through technology.”

Nydia Celina Villoria, Parent