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"Talking with a person who uses AAC - what to do, and what not to do! - in order to be a good communication partner. What people who use AAC have to say about communication partners."

This site presents training, resources, and information related to early communication assessment and instruction for students with significant disabilities. It is part of a larger effort to address the needs of students with significant disabilities who participate in the alternate assessment across the state of North Carolina. The goal of the larger project is to provide educators with the training, resources, and support they need to meet the needs of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities across three critical domains: Academics, Communication, and Transition.

CALL Centre provides free downloadable passport templates, customized booklets that enable individuals with communication challenges to express themselves and provide information about their most effective means of communication.

Using a series of 'stickman' animations coupled with video and narration this video explores different ways of communicating and introduces you to AAC Man, a superhero who can help overcome barriers to communication.

"Bilingual communication boards to start off communication" many languages and visual supports available pre-made

"Augmentative Communication, Augmentative Communication News (ACN), distilling the ongoing research, exemplary practice, and new development activities in the field into a practical format that made it possible for clinicians, students and teachers to translate ongoing research and development into immediate practice. For fifteen years (1994-2009) Michael B. Williams, a gifted writer who himself relies on augmentative communication tools and strategies, wrote, edited, and oversaw the publications of Alternatively Speaking. This newsletter was written by and for people with complex communication needs and covered topics of personal and immediate interest to individuals who benefit using AAC. Alternatively Speaking provides straight talk on key issues, from the perspective of people who rely on AAC. Every single issue of these two seminal publications in the field of AAC is now available"

Communication Matters is committed to supporting people who find communication difficult because they have little or no clear speech. You will find here information on methods of communication which can be used to supplement the more usual methods of speech and writing. These methods are called Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or AAC for short.

see list of resources, too. not all are free Say it with Symbols! is your first stop resource for families, caregivers, nurses and support professionals looking for easy-to-use, functional augmentative communication aids to help non-verbal loved ones and patients communicate their needs and feelings using pictures and symbols."

Picture/spelling communication for hospital/community

Free activities to motivate and engage children to learn speech, language, and communication skills. Need a way to help your students with a speech impairment? Check out this site for ideas to help students make the connection between language, literacy and communication.

"Communicative Functions Checklist "

" Building a communication book might seem intimidating, but just requires a bit of thought and time. The results will greatly benefit you and your students."

SET-BC's vast collection of free downloadable visual supports available in both PDF and Boardmaker file formats in the following categories: school, home, community, sample communication displays, young adults, and seasons and holidays

iPad apps for complex communication supports/aac

If you need help with spoken communication because of a disability, this website can give you an idea of what's on offer, with details of nearly every communication aid available in the UK - and it's all searchable!

This episode features a description of a scenario where a student with multiple articulation difficulties is communicating effectively 90% of the time but needs help when telling about novel situations. A strategy was put in place that is effectively helping that student communicate with others during these times. This episode is one of my contributions to Better Hearing and Speech Month by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

"A complete revision of the Pragmatics Profile of Every Communication Skills, the Pragmatics Profile contains two separate interview forms - each of them taking full account of the increasing variety of complexity of the different communicative and social setting that children encounter as they grow older and enter formal education"

Presentation by Jane Farrall on teaching language & communication from AGOSCI Conference 2015

Mary's Top 10 Communication Tips howto communicate disability awareness

tips for how to communicate with anyone, with or without a disability