Tag: speak for yourself app
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Simon Says: Model One More Word
One of the more common, and important, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) implementation strategies is Aided Language Input or modeling. It would be overwhelming to use your child’s/client’s device to model EVERY word you are saying verbally…for you and the child! Here’s the good news, you can successfully use Aided Language Input without overwhelming anyone! This blog topic was prompted by a discussion in the Speak…
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The AAC Detective: Try Observing These Five Behaviors for Clues
“I want you to know that today, in the brief moments when I was quiet, I was just enjoying being with you.” I want to say that more in 2014. The beginning of this post is more personal than most, but it’s a new year and a good time to reflect. I feel like my…
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Stimming on Autism
Sometimes….I “stim.” It’s true. It is interesting and comfortable inside of my own mind, and sometimes I curl up there and block out the rest of the world. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is definitely one of my obsessions. I think about it all the time. Sometimes, when people talk, I listen to their rate…
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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 3
If you haven’t already heard, October is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month. If you’ve been following along over the past few days, an incredible mother, Mary, is using an iPad mini and the Speak for Yourself app to communicate for the week. It’s the same system that her daughter, Jess , uses. Thank…
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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 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…