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AAC at ATIA 2023: Presentations to Get Excited About
AAC stakeholders from around the US and beyond are looking forward to the ATIA 2023 Conference in Orlando this week.... [Read More...]
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PrAACtically February: AAC Resources for a Year of Core Words
It takes time and effort to plan for comprehensive core vocabulary instruction. The Year of Core Vocabulary Words and The... [Read More...]
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AAC Link Up – January 24
Happy Tuesday, AAC friends! Once a week, we invite you to share your own AAC-related content, product news, or anything... [Read More...]
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PrAACtical Partner Instructions
While training communication partners is an important role for SLPs and other professionals, there’s an additional way to promote supportive... [Read More...]
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AAC Posts from PrAACtical Week # 4: January 2023
Happy Sunday, AAC friends. Here are some AAC posts that you might have missed. Monday – Toward Communicative Competence in... [Read More...]
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Toward Communicative Competence in AAC: 5 Strategic Skills to Consider Targeting
Communicative competence is a multi-faceted concept that was introduced to the AAC field by Dr. Janice Light over 3 decades... [Read More...]
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Throwback Thursday: AAC-friendly Resources for Martin Luther King, Jr Day
In just a few days, people around the US will be taking time to honor the slain civil rights leader,... [Read More...]
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Video of the Week: Aging Without Community – Thoughts from Rick Creech
The AAC community lost a powerful voice recently. Today, we honor Rick Creech by looking back at his testimony at... [Read More...]
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AAC Implementation Framework: Steps to Learning
We’re so pleased to welcome PrAACtical AAC contributor Vicki Clarke back to these pages. While you may remember Vicki from... [Read More...]
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Growing AAC Professionals: A Guide to Voice Banking
When university faculty and graduate students work together on AAC content, good things are bound to happen. In this post,... [Read More...]
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Video of the Week: Incorporating Comprehensive Literacy Instruction into AAC Intervention
The work of Drs. Karen Erickson and David Koppenhaver on comprehensive literacy instruction in AAC has inspired many educators and... [Read More...]
Video of the Week
Video of the Week: Baking with AAC
Learning to integrate AAC into typical daily routines takes time and a little support. In today’s featured video, provided by... [Read More...]
AAC on the Go: 5 Tips for Traveling with AAC
It’s Spring Break here in Florida and that makes us think of traveling. Traveling is never easy, but people who... [Read More...]
Visual Schedules 411
Visual schedules come in all shapes and sizes. The process of deciding which one to use begins with two questions:... [Read More...]
Games are More Than Fun… Gaming for ALL
‘Gaming’- not something we typically associate with AAC, but we know that it is often the topic of conversation... [Read More...]
AAC and March Madness
The Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center worked together to develop Sponsored Silence, a program in which... [Read More...]
5 Great Resources for Helping Individuals with Vision and Hearing Loss
1. National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind: Communication Fact Sheets. – 2. Early Interactions... [Read More...]
Video of the Week: Visual Schedules & Inclusion
We love strategies that work for everyone and visual schedules certainly fall into that category. Although the my planner might look... [Read More...]
Strategy of the Month: Riddle Me This
Here’s a riddle for you. Read the clues and guess what tool or strategy we’re talking about. Clue #1: It’s... [Read More...]
National Quilting Day & Employment
Did you know that March 17, 2012 was National Quilting Day? We didn’t know either until we found out about... [Read More...]
PrAActically New- Success
The Secret to Succeeding At Anything We found this very cool photo message through Russ Ewell on google + (re-posted... [Read More...]
February AAC Round-Up
The Fives 5 Features of AAC Apps & SGDs that Make Us Happy 5 Little Things that Make a Big... [Read More...]