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Welcome AAC and General Assistive Technology lovers. Here you will find information, materials and sites of interest related to AAC and AT. Of particular interest is the use of core vocabulary to support students with language and communication disabilities. Also featured is training materials related to computer access methods and training of those methods. This is a work in progress by a school-based AT Specialist. Data is updated when I have the time! Please go to the discussion tab to leave me a message or make comments. Enjoy! Barb Cannon Site Owner and AT Specialist

Van Tatenhove, Gail (2009); The Pixon Project Kit, Pittsburgh, PA: Semantic Compaction Systems - Adapted by Marcia Sterner, OCPS AT Team Introducing Core Vocabulary on an AAC System Establishing consistent use of core vocabulary can set AAC users up to me more effective and efficient communicators. Below are 12 modules designed to provide a plan for introducing sections of core vocabulary based on language function. Reinforce vocabulary within meaningful and motivating activities.

"Chris Klein is a voice to those that have none and helping hand to those with disabilities, even though he was born with cerebral palsy and uses augmentative communication to help him interact with the rest of the world. Over the past four years, Chris has been working closely with people that use AAC. He has recently been elected president of USSAAC (United States Society of Augmentative Alternative Communication). He has also formed an organization called BeCOME AAC. It stands for Building Connections with Others through Mentoring and Education about AAC. Chris is a graduate of Hope College and has studied at Western Theological Seminary. He currently lives in Grand Rapids with his wife Dawn."

Speaker: Debbie Witkowski Presentation: Getting the most from High-Tech AAC Devices In this segment the speaker provides several advantages to prioritizing a focus on Core Vocabulary in AAC devices. These advantages include Core Vocabulary's role in language development, the ability to target multiple pragmatic functions, the flexibility of core vocabulary, the fact that Core Vocabulary reduces programming, and the fact that core promotes novel utterance generation.

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.

Discover AAC infographic on Parents' role in AAC use

Going beyond Core vocabulary 101. Presentation part of the AAC in the Cloud 2017 conference.

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

Demonstrating how Assistive Technology (AT) and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) enABLE individuals with disabilities to participate in all aspects of life.

Every A.T.TIPSCAST episode tagged "AAC"

guide for classroom AAC implementation

free printable items www.practicalautismresources.com/printables - Preview AAC free on 2010-02-17 and saved by 5 people International AAC Awareness Information Center

Download the audio directly - Episode #151: SNUG & Presuming Competence with AAC This episode of the A.T.TIPSCAST is sponsored by Texthelp, provider of the award-winning Read&Write software solutions. Click on the banner above to learn about the amazing Read&Write products.

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

AAC Does Not Hinder Speech Development

Evidence that language pre-requisites are NOT necessary for AAC