AAC Link Up – February 4

February 4, 2025 by - Leave your thoughts


AAC Link Up - February 4

Happy Tuesday, AAC friends! Once a week, we invite you to share your own AAC-related content, product news, or anything else that you’d like others in the AAC community to know about.  It may be a recent post you’ve written, a slide deck from your AAC presentation, a handout, video, or meme that you’ve posted online, an AAC product you’ve created, an announcement for an AAC course or conference, or any other prAACtical content you developed and want to share with the AAC community. . To post your own link, scroll all the way down to the bottom of this post and complete the form. Enter the URL and the name/title in the boxes provided below. If you are on a mobile device, click over to the full website version to do this. . The AAC Link Up is moderated to keep us from being spammed, so it may take... [Read More...]

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AAC Posts from PrAACtical Week # 5: February 2025

February 2, 2025 by - Leave your thoughts


AAC Posts from PrAACtical Week # 5: February 2025

Happy Sunday, AAC friends. It was a busy week full of AAC learning at ATIA 2025 with great sessions and lots of connection with AAC people. Tuesday – AAC Link Up Wednesday – Video of the Week: Mentoring Possibilities for Young People Who Use AAC :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Stick around for some more AAC reading if you can. Here are some suggestions with info and resources from conferences in previous years. Enjoy! PrAACtical Resources: Partner Strategies Handout PrAACtical Fun A PrAACtical Idea for Aided Language Input Toward Improved Diversity in AAC 3 Presentation Handouts on Core Vocabulary Implementation

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Video of the Week: Mentoring Possibilities for Young People Who Use AAC

January 29, 2025 by - Leave your thoughts


Video of the Week: Mentoring Possibilities for Young People Who Use AAC

Learn about the lived mentoring experiences of AAC users in today’s featured presentation by AAC user and researcher Dr. Lateef McLeod. This session was hosted by the AAC Peer Support Project, led by Dr. Melanie Fried-Oken at the Oregon Health Sciences University. We are grateful to them and to Dr. McLeod for this informative session. Direct Link to Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YCaOvt3wzA&ab_channel=AACPeerSupportProject

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After the Holidays: AAC Conversations Using Pre-stored Questions

January 2, 2025 by - Leave your thoughts


After the Holidays: AAC Conversations Using Pre-stored Questions

A great many AAC learners would love to be more actively involved in social conversations but may not have the skills to carry on a conversation. For some individuals, the use of pre-stored messages designed to get their partners talking is a great way to take the pressure off and allow the AAC learner to be more actively involved in the conversation. Partner-focused questions serve to get information, opinions, or feedback. By creating these and storing them as whole questions, the AAC learner has a relatively quick and easy means to drive the direction of the conversation. Here are some examples: How were your holidays? What did you get for Christmas/Hanukkah? What do you think? Where did you go over break? How’s your family? What’s going on with you? In general, people love talking about themselves, and questions like these are a great way to get the ball rolling or... [Read More...]

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AAC Link Up – December 31

December 31, 2024 by - Leave your thoughts


AAC Link Up - December 31

Happy Tuesday, AAC friends! Once a week, we invite you to share your own AAC-related content, product news, or anything else that you’d like others in the AAC community to know about.  It may be a recent post you’ve written, a slide deck from your AAC presentation, a handout, video, or meme that you’ve posted online, an AAC product you’ve created, an announcement for an AAC course or conference, or any other prAACtical content you developed and want to share with the AAC community. . To post your own link, scroll all the way down to the bottom of this post and complete the form. Enter the URL and the name/title in the boxes provided below. If you are on a mobile device, click over to the full website version to do this. . The AAC Link Up is moderated to keep us from being spammed, so it may take... [Read More...]

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PrAACtically Christmas: AAC-friendly Resources

December 24, 2024 by - Leave your thoughts


PrAACtically Christmas: AAC-friendly Resources

Add to the fun with some last-minute AAC-friendly Christmas activities. Communication Boards for Hanukkah and Christmas for AAC Users by Susan Berkowitz Help Santa by Joyful Occupational Therapy Pete the Cat’s 12 Groovy Days of Christmas Visual Supplement by Paige Sullivan Christmas Helpers Adapted Book EASY READER (Autism Support) by Alicia Mitchell Santa Emotions Boom Cards™ by Speechie Adventures There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell – Companion AAC Materials by Weave Chat AAC The Ninjabread Man (by C.J. Leigh) – AAC Companion Material by Weave Chat AAC How the Grinch Stole Christmas Adapted Book for Autism / Special Education by Anna Waddell Christmas Visual Grounding Mindfulness Activity by Behavior Belle Christmas Conversation Starters Visuals Task Cards Social Skills by LitRead Christmas Cookie AAC Mat by Sped Ventures Christmas Core Vocabulary Book by B and B SLP No Print Boom Cards™ Christmas Speech Therapy Freebie by Beautiful Speech... [Read More...]

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PrAACtically Hanukkah: Resources & Activities for an AAC-friendly Celebration

December 23, 2024 by - Leave your thoughts


PrAACtically Hanukkah: Resources & Activities for an AAC-friendly Celebration

The 8-day celebration of Hanukkah begins this week. In recognition of the holiday, we’re sharing some AAC-friendly resources that might be helpful to those who celebrate or are learning about this festival of lights. This treasure trove of resources from Gateways includes symbols for prayers and songs, social narratives, instructions for lighting the menorah, Hanukkah fire safety, games, and activities. Hanukkah Resources Hanukkah Crafts with Visual Directions by Simply Visual Communication Boards for Hanukkah and Christmas for AAC Users by Susan Berkowitz Hanukkah Short Story Comprehension and Retell with Visuals by MollyB SLP Hanukkah Shared Reading | Project & Trace Chart Worksheet by Cooper’s Crayon Box Digital Token Boards FREEBIE (Hanukkah Edition) – BOOM Cards by Speech Bop Hanukkah/Dreidel Classroom Supports by Miss Laidlaw’s Classroom Free Spanish / English “My Hanukkah” Emergent Reader Mini-book by Miss Shibz Hanukkah recipes and books from PreK Pages Silly Hanukkah Joke Tellers for Kids... [Read More...]

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December Year of Core Vocabulary & School Year of Core Vocabulary Words

December 5, 2024 by - Leave your thoughts


December Year of Core Vocabulary & School Year of Core Vocabulary Words

It’s prAACtically time to turn the calendar to a new page, so today we’re re-sharing resources for December year of core word followers. In 2013, when schools and other clinical programs were expanding their emphasis on teaching core vocabulary words, PrAACtical AAC published a set of resources for families and professionals that included symbol cards, sample sentences to model, activity suggestions, and more. All of these were based on a small set of core words for each month (see that post here). We followed that with a second set of Year of Core Vocabulary Word resources for a new list of words (click here for that post). Over the years, the resources were expanded and grew to include a wonderful series of calendars with daily activity suggestions developed by AAC SLP and co-founder of Talking AAC, Rachael Langley. There were many other contributors over the years who added to these... [Read More...]

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AAC Link Up – October 22

October 22, 2024 by - Leave your thoughts


AAC Link Up - October 22

Happy Tuesday, AAC friends! Once a week, we invite you to share your own AAC-related content, product news, or anything else that you’d like others in the AAC community to know about.  It may be a recent post you’ve written, a slide deck from your AAC presentation, a handout, video, or meme that you’ve posted online, an AAC product you’ve created, an announcement for an AAC course or conference, or any other prAACtical content you developed and want to share with the AAC community. . To post your own link, scroll all the way down to the bottom of this post and complete the form. Enter the URL and the name/title in the boxes provided below. If you are on a mobile device, click over to the full website version to do this. . The AAC Link Up is moderated to keep us from being spammed, so it may take... [Read More...]

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