Tag: AAC Awareness month
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From the Hands of Babes: AAC Awareness Month Round Up Part 2
In celebration of AAC Awareness Month this October, we asked you to share stories and pictures of the funny, embarrassing, special, entertaining, and typical things that students are able to say because of AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication). Yesterday’s post (Part 1) included AAC learners sharing their opinions about a situation, talking about feelings, showing…
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From The Hands of Babes: AAC Awareness Month Round Up Part 1
October is Augmentative and Alternative communication (AAC) Awareness Month. Earlier this month, we asked you to post pictures of funny, amazing, adorable things that your children and clients say using their AAC systems. We gave away a beach towel that can also be used as a low tech core vocabulary option each week as part…
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From the Hands of Babes: Celebrating AAC Awareness Month
October is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month! We’re excited to celebrate because everyday, we are privileged to see the incredible difference AAC makes in the lives of the people using it and the people who love them. We also have the tremendous opportunity to make changes within the design of the Speak for…
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The Difference Between Speak for Yourself and…
There are literally hundreds of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) options on the market! Making a choice can be overwhelming for parents and professionals. However, if you’re looking for a robust, comprehensive AAC app, that narrows the options considerably. Often in AAC online groups and in person, parents and speech-language pathologists will ask for comparisons…
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Does (AAC Button) Size Really Matter?
“Those buttons are so small!” In the almost 4 years that the Speak for Yourself Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app has been on the market, this is the feedback that we receive most frequently. Yes, the buttons in Speak for Yourself are small and you can not change the button size. In case you’re thinking, “Well…
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Because of AAC…He First Learned to Communicate and Then He Learned to Talk
There is a myth that those of us who support and advocate for people with complex communication needs (CCN), find ourselves dispelling repeatedly, sometimes daily. The myth is that Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) will somehow inhibit or prevent verbal speech. It takes several forms when heard or read on various Facebook groups and pages. One of the issues…
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Celebrating Awareness Because of AAC
A voice allows someone to share thoughts and form relationships. AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) gives individuals with complex communication needs (CCN) a universally understandable way to express their thoughts and ideas. Could he point to his tooth? Sure. Could he hold it out to her in his hand? Absolutely. Maybe he did, but how would she know…
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Finding Her Own Voice
You may remember the mom who was “Voiceless But Still Talking” earlier this month at the start of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month. If you missed it, Mary used the Speak for Yourself (SfY) AAC app and her daughter’s back up iPad to communicate for the week. She provided us daily journal entries…
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The Final Day of the Voiceless But Still Talking (with AAC) Challenge
Well, today was the last day of Mary’s Voiceless Week. She is the mom of 21 year old Jess who uses the Speak for Yourself Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app. Mary spent this last week using Jess’s back up iPad Mini to communicate. Thank you, Mary, for letting us into your life and sharing…
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Day 7 of the Voiceless But Still Talking (with AAC) Challenge
We continue to follow Mary, as she spends the week voiceless and using the iPad mini with the Speak for Yourself (SFY) Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app to communicate. Her daughter, Jess, uses SFY to communicate. Here is Mary’s journal entry for her 7th voiceless day: “Husband is still trying to guess what I’m…