Tag: AAC
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Day 6: Voiceless But Still Talking (with AAC) Challenge…The Mini Goes to New York City
We continue to follow the ambitious and curious mom, Mary. She is going voiceless for a week and using her daughter’s back up iPad mini with the Speak for Yourself Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app to communicate. Today was her sixth day, and here she shares her experiences: “Up and out early today. Dropped…
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Day 5: Voiceless But Still Talking (With AAC) Challenge
Mary, the incredible mom who has been using her daughter’s back up iPad mini with the Speak for Yourself (SfY) Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app to communicate instead of her voice, shares her experiences of the fifth day of her week long challenge: “Woke up early. Standing at sink drinking a glass of water,…
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Voiceless But Still Talking (with AAC) Challenge Day 4 – It Is Time For The Wine…
We are following an amazing mother’s experiences as she goes voiceless for a week to better understand and support her daughter’s ability to “navigate in a verbal world.” Here is Mary’s journal for the 4th day, using an iPad mini and the Speak for Yourself Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app to communicate: “This morning,…
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The First Full Day of the Voiceless But Still Talking (with AAC) Challenge
Today is the first day of October and the beginning of AAC Awareness Month! We are following Mary, who is using her daughter’s (Jessie) back up iPad mini with the Speak for Yourself AAC app…for a WEEK! Today was the first full day of her “Voiceless But Still Talking Challenge.” Has anyone else joined her?…
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Voiceless But Still Talking (with an iPad) Challenge…and Giveaway!
Have you ever lost your voice? Maybe you had laryngitis or had to be on vocal rest? Have you ever just tried to be silent for a day? An hour? One of our amazing parents has decided to go voiceless for a week using only her daughter’s (back up) iPad with the Speak for Yourself…
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The Evidence-Based Research Behind Speak for Yourself
For the most part, we try to post information regarding Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) that can be applied to any app or language system. However, in this post, we are going to tell you why we think Speak for Yourself is the best AAC app on the market, and link some of the research…
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What Your Child on the (Autism) Spectrum May Not Be Able to Tell You…Yet.
We attended the Autism Society of America Conference earlier this month in Pittsburgh. One of the things we quickly noticed is that a majority of the people at the conference who had “individual with autism” ribbons had crossed the original message out and wrote “Autistic”. So please don’t think we are ignoring “people first language”…
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What a Difference a Year Makes!
We’re spending this week in Pittsburgh for the Autism Society of America National conference. Last year, we were in Pittsburgh every other week battling a patent infringement lawsuit. We spent countless hours with attorneys (well not really countless…someone was counting) and were scared to death to step into the exhibit hall of ISAAC 2012 for…
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An AAC Analogy: More Than Just Pushing Buttons
There have been online and “in person” conversations recently about the expectation of children using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) to form sentences in a relatively short amount of time. We give “typical” verbal children at least two years before we expect them to combine two words, but AAC devices are frequently abandoned before a…
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A Favorite Father’s Day Story
As speech language pathologists working with AAC, we are privileged to meet a lot of parents. As part of that privilege, we hear a relatively even number of stories that warm – and stories that break – our hearts. Every Father’s Day, I think of a story that starts with a meeting about 3 1/2 year old…