Lelis Nolasco-Garcia Discusses Tele-AAC

Lelis has practiced as a bilingual/AAC clinical Speech-Language Pathologist in the medical (15 years), public school (25 years), and telepractice (8 years) settings treating clients across the lifespan. Her emphasis has been working with Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), non-verbal or limited verbal communicators due to multiple disabilities, rehabilitation of patients in geriatric and pediatric settings after CVA, TBI, & dysphagia. Additionally, Lelis has also worked with Culturally & Linguistically Diverse  populations. For the past 8 years her roles  have included treating and assessing students with AAC needs and bilingual students via teletherapy.  She has also hosted various clinical trainings each year in her topics of passion: bilingualism and AAC.  Another role here has been adding content for AAC and bilingual materials in a large teletherapy company.

Financial Disclosure: Individual contractor SLP for telepractice; hosting clinical trainings in various telepractice companies about bilingual and AAC topics; a content creator for her store teachers pay teachers where she is an author, creator, and owner of Speech and Language Therapy Cafe at Teachers Pay Teachers

Non-Financial Disclosure: Author of Website Speech and Language Therapy Cafe at Weebly where I share free resources and share tips with peer SLP’s; create various materials for my bilingual and AAC students, an ASHA member, ASHA ACE Award Recipient.

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