Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design

newly designed intervention package called ModelER (Model, Encourage, Respond) for Read and Talk. MODELER Strategy The ModelER intervention package is built on theory supporting the importance of language input (Gallway & Richards, 1994; Hart & Risley, 1995, Tomasello, 2003) and effective instructional components as highlighted in AAC modeling research (Sennott et al., 2014). Figure 1. MODELER for Read and Talk ModelER. The Improving Partner AAC Training (ImpAACt) series of studies (e.g. Binger et al., 2008) effectively used variants of a specific strategy instructional package (Read, Ask, and Answer [RAA] and related variants) to teach partners to better engage in shared storybook reading with beginning communicators who use AAC. These studies demonstrated positive results in the form of increased communication turns (Kent-Walsh et al, 2010; Rosa-Lugo & Kent-Walsh, 2008), increased multi-symbol communication turns (Binger et al., 2008, Binger, Kent- Walsh, Ewing, & Taylor, 2010), and increased use of morphological forms (Binger, 32