Hear All About It! Home News Informs AAC System Development and Early Literacy Instruction for Preschoolers
Universal Voices: The Right to be Heard, Move and Belong
Join us April 30, 2026 – May 1, 2026
The Bridge School serves children ages 3–13 with extensive speech and physical disabilities through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program based in Hillsborough, CA.
Explore the core programs and strategies that define The Bridge School’s approach to education and access.
AAC by the Bay Save the Date!
April 30 – May 1, 2026
Programs, Strategies and Perspectives – Setting the Standard
Bridge to Life extends the expertise of The Bridge School to individuals from infancy through adulthood, offering personalized services that support communication, access, and learning across all stages of life.
Explore the core programs and strategies that define The Bridge School’s approach to education and access.
Use it on Monday Series Workshop 2: The CVI/AAC Framework: A Complementary Approach to AAC Assessment for Individuals with CVI. Watch the archive presented on Feb 21, 2026
Programs, Strategies and Perspectives – Setting the standard
Accepting Applications for Teacher in Residence for the 2025-2026 Academic Year
Programs, Strategies and Perspectives – Setting the standard
05/16/25 9-10:30 AM
CVI Webinar #10: My Story, My Way: A Personalized Approach to Social Stories with Rebecca Matthews Carlson
Programs, Strategies and Perspectives – Setting the standard
05/16/25 9-10:30 AM
CVI Webinar #10: My Story, My Way: A Personalized Approach to Social Stories with Rebecca Matthews Carlson
The Bridge School is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals who need support in developing a voice of their own. Your charitable donation makes a significant difference in the level of support we are able to provide to children and their families locally, nationally and globally. Donate today!
Announcing The Bridge School’s Memorabilia Shop!
Spring 2025 – Conversation Series on CVI and AAC with Dr. Christine Roman Lantzy
In attempting to develop and organize personalized AAC systems for young children with complex communication needs, it is important for school-based interventionists to know of and build upon daily experiences outside of the classroom, including interests, language, and ideas that are valued in the home environment. However, it is an ongoing challenge to learn of and, in turn, use this information to regularly update AAC systems and to provide instruction in ways that allow children to talk about familiar, motivating experiences and become increasingly competent communicators using AAC. We discuss how this problem has been approached in a preschool setting using a curricular activity of the Bridge School program, the regular sharing of what we call ‘Home News’. Through the use of case examples with video and audio recordings, we illustrate how ‘Home News’ is used to expand AAC systems and to provide instruction specifically targeting individualized goals and objectives across operational, strategic, social, and linguistic competencies. We describe our process for recording, archiving, and analyzing ‘Home News’ and provide tip sheets for promoting a family’s selection and recording of ‘Home News’ to best support and expand their child’s growing communicative competence with AAC.
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