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How to add a word to the LAMP:WFL app

Research suggests changing the icons size and location decreases the speed and accuracy of a person learning to use a speech generating device.

In this blog post by a famous AAC clinician named Gail Van Tatenhove she tells the story of Velma, an employee at an adult facility who witnessed Gail talking with an AAC user by modeling on the device. Velma was inspired to become "America's Next Top Modeler" with Gail acting as her coach. In the article, Gail outlines some initial scripts she gave to Velma to use when chatting with the AAC user. These scripts were necessary because Velma couldn't be expected to know where every word was she might ever need to say. The scripts took the pressure off! Velma only needed to find these few words. Guess what happened? In time, Velma learned where all of these words were so she didn't need to use the scripts at all.

Aided language modeling: adult models how to use the individual's communication board/AAC system by actually pointing to/selecting symbols to represent words being read from the text Learning how to use aided language modeling during reading activities using strategies; either of the strategies could be used although in the research the RAA strategy was used primarily to model and elicit single symbol responses whereas RAAP strategy was used primarily to model and elicit multi-symbol response. You can use either of these strategies but prompts may be needed for some children. * RAA: using the read-ask-answer strategy to elicit single symbol responses on the AAC system * RAAP: using the read-ask-answer-prompt strategy to elicit single symbol or multisymbol responses on the AAC system

AAC Training Modules

Every A.T.TIPSCAST episode tagged "AAC"

"A classroom-wide approach for preschool children starting to use augmentative and alternative communication with core vocabulary"

Video of a book made by educators and students focusing on language.

Proloquo2Go is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default

guide for classroom AAC implementation

With a great AAC group, we created a list of 12 AAC agreements, listed at https://t.co/aT0xEh15ta. A collection of better practices. #ATIA16

Research article explaining a model for teaching communication partners how to help a user of AAC.

Hashtag used by people working in AAC to convey insights into practices using memes

What is least to most prompting?

YouTube Channel dedicated to augmentative alternative communication