You’ll find a variety of blog posts aimed at parents, speech therapists, and students, with topics ranging from nonspeaking children and getting started with AAC, modeling AAC and how to support children wtih complex communication needs learning how to communicate with AAC.
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How many times have you heard: "They are just stimming on their device.” In this blog post, I’ve teamed up with Laura Hayes (@AACinnovations on Instagram) to take a magnifying glass and zoom in on how AAC learners may “stim” on their devices and how we can utilize this information to better support them.
If you’ve spent any time here on my website or follow me on social media, then you’ve probably noticed that I love visual resources. Visual supports are imperative for child learning, and there are few visual supports that I love more than a communication board (you can download my FREE Core Communication Board).
It stands for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, and it basically refers to any kind of communication system that helps kids (or anyone, for that matter) express their needs to you if they can’t use verbal speech.
One of the biggest misconceptions I see in my practice is that people think that AAC only refers to sleek gadgets activated by fancy buttons.
In fact, some of the most effective AAC supports I use every day are quite simple, and considered “no tech” or “paper based”.