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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."

activities to raise awareness of aac

activities to raise awareness of aac

all LCPS bookmarks tagged AAC

The Penn State AAC community of faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students are dedicated to enhancing communication and improving the overall quality of life for individuals who have complex communication needs and their families.

PDF with some Do's and Don't of AAC

"Making AAC Happen in the Classroom"

features of 119 aac apps

"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"

"For many reasons it can be useful to create a paper-based book of your vocabulary. It gives you a backup communication system if anything should happen to your iPad. At different times, in different environments it can be very handy to have a paper copy! Perhaps the AAC user has more success accessing their communication in a book like this! And if we are trying to do more modeling in the AAC app, your paper-based book is just another way to do it!"

"AAC Core Vocabulary Practice for Workshops and Inservices"

AAC resource Guide for Teachers. White paper

AAC Vocab lists

"The International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) works to improve the lives of children and adults who use AAC. ISAAC's vision is that AAC will be recognized, valued and used throughout the world. ISAAC's mission is to promote the best possible communication for people with complex communication needs"

10 of the best Presentation Handouts from ISAAC2016

"These resources were supported by NHS Education Scotland (www.nes.scot.nhs.uk), and produced by Manchester Metropolitan (Dr Janice Murray, Helen, Bell, Helen Whittle, Osman Javaid) in collaboration with Sara Dale, the ACE Centre (www.acecentre.org.uk ), and Janet Scott, Scottish Centre of Technology for the Communication Impaired (SCTCI)."

"Free Resources The AAC Language Lab offers many free resources. Free resources include: Language Stages and Objectives Unity Vocabulary Programs Let's Talk AAC Blog Sample Lesson Plans Clinical Classroom Mobile"

Self Study Course from AAC Institute.

Informal diagnostic tool to assist speech-language pathologist with identifying a language representation system for AAC users. freeware correlate to http://www.closingthegap.com/media/conference/sessions/183/ArtandScienceofAACEval.pdf

Speaker: Debbie Witkowski Presentation: Getting the most from High-Tech AAC Devices This segment is a discussion on the use of pre-stored messages versus a word-based vocabulary set in high-tech AAC devices, specifically the use of core vocabulary. This discussion includes a review of journal articles on the topics of pre-stored messages and core vocabulary.