AAC Help!
Hello! I am seeking advice around a fair amount of my students. I work at a nonpublic school and serve autistic students. The majority of them are non speaking and use AAC devices. I love getting to customize their devices with their favorite things/ scripts from their favorite shows (we have quite a few gestalt processors), etc. HOWEVER, I keep running into the same problem where my students will become overly obsessive with these buttons to the point of negative and harmful behaviors towards themselves and others (hitting, biting, head butting, you name it). I tell teachers that the students are ALLOWED to make these requests or talk about their favorite things and that this is something that can motivate them to communicate, but i hate going into classrooms and then being a cause for destruction because we have to tell the students that we can get/talk about that thing of high interest later.
Maybe this is a question for the behavior therapists but I just do not want to hide/ remove access to any language.
Thoughts? Anything helps!! I am a fairly new slp and I am at a loss.