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Augmentative Communication and Early Intervention Myths and Realities MaryAnn Romski, PhD, CCC-SLP; Rose A. Sevcik, PhD The use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) services and supports with infants and young children has been limited, owing to a number of myths about the appropriateness of AAC use with this population. This article will provide an overview of some of the myths that have hampered the inclusion of AAC into early intervention service delivery and refutes them. It will then examine some of the realities that must be considered when delivering AAC services and supports to young children

GREAT RESOURCE for Core Vocabulary and implementation and general AAC support See Core Samples for a nice variety of boards in a variety of symbol sets

Core vocabulary resources

This video demonstrates how to use Read&Write for Google Chrome to work with webpages in the Chrome browser, using supports like text to speech, word prediction, talking and picture dictionaries, study skills highlighters and more.

"Windows Speech Recognition lets you control your PC by voice alone, without needing a keyboard or mouse. The following tables list commands that you can use with Speech Recognition. If a word or phrase is bold, it's an example. Replace it with similar words to get the result you want. For info on how to set up Speech Recognition for the first time, see Use speech recognition."

"Your FREE, personal website for managing and backing up your communication tools, connecting with your entire communication support team, and sharing communication pages"

Pictures provide wonderful visual supports to support content. This YouTube video shows different ways to insert and position pictures into a MS Word document.

Great for classroom library organization, classroom management, center games, and more! Library pockets can be used to create activities and classroom supports for organization and learning.

Watch web videos without the comments and commercials. Supported sites include YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Viddler, and Vimeo

Awesome PDF Newletter issues of technology supporting UDL

handheld transitonal supports

"Effective communication is a fundamental element of life. Relationships, choice, employment, and so much more are severely limited by an inability to communicate. Let's make effective communication a reality for people with disabilities. Join TASH's new campaign, Communication for All. The campaign was created to promote life-long communication for people with disabilities through awareness, professional development, access to communication technologies, instruction, and support. Join the campaign group (members-only) to promote life-long communication for all!"

"The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) is a project led by five centers and 24 states, building an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The shared goal of the NCSC partners is to ensure that students with the most significant cognitive disabilities achieve increasingly higher academic outcomes and leave high school ready for post-secondary options. The wiki and the materials hosted here help educators accomplish the NCSC goals by supporting instruction aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The materials on the wiki can also be used in states that are not using the CCSS. Much of the content that is covered on the wiki will also appear in other Mathematics and English Language Arts state standards. "

PECS for All Free visual supports you can make for your child.

Comprehensive integrated and discreet literacy tool for supporting the reading, writing, and research needs of all students. Provides text-to-speech, English to Spanish translations, mathematical conversions, interactive dictonary and thesaurus, word pred

Create symbol based communication and educational materials to support the literacy needs of any student. The program includes over 4500 symbols and 22 different languages.

To get started, go to the Tutorials page and download a free ebook on the accessibility features of Apple's mobile devices, as well as our PDF Tutorials for iPad and iPod touch applications that support students with special needs. The Apps page includes

In this lesson, students brainstorm texts that they have read recently and map their choices using a Graphic Map to rate and make notes about them.

Teacher supporting iREAD program at Escondido

We welcome you to our work-in-progress wiki for supporting iPod devices in education. We welcome you to our work-in-progress wiki for supporting iPod devices in education. Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level