# Fostering Symbolic Understanding for Students with Complex Needs **URL:** \ **Category:** Fostering Symbolic Understanding for Students with\ **Tags:** compensatory-access, aph-product, communication, multiple-impairments\ **Created:** [June 9, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.aphhive.org/t/fostering-symbolic-understanding-for-students-with-complex-needs/172 "2023-06-09T16:37:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adresselhaus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.aphhive.org/adresselhaus/32/97_2.png) [@adresselhaus](https://community.aphhive.org/u/adresselhaus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.aphhive.org/t/fostering-symbolic-understanding-for-students-with-complex-needs/172/1 "2023-06-09T16:37:43Z")
[Enroll in the Hive Course] Coming Soon! **Course Description:** Follow the path of matching a learner’s stage of cognitive development with communication intervention strategies. Enroll in this course to learn how the product Symbols and Meaning (SAM) gives educators tools and strategies for expanding a learner’s concepts of people, objects, actions, and places. **ACVERP Credit Hours: 2.5** **Objectives** - Identify the three stages of cognitive development. - Explore ways to incorporate games into daily routines as a main intervention strategy to build communication. - Differentiate the use of symbolic and sensory bridging to build schemas for simple and complex concepts. - Identify strategies for teaching symbolic concepts to learners with limited use of hands. ---
**Author:** ![schindlerta8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@schindlerta8](https://community.aphhive.org/u/schindlerta8)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.aphhive.org/t/fostering-symbolic-understanding-for-students-with-complex-needs/172/2 "2023-07-18T15:45:36Z")
Hi, How will I know when the class Fostering Symbolic Understanding for Students with Complex Needs begins. thank you, Tressie Schindler