AAC Love: 5 Moments to Savor

On Valentine’s Day, our thoughts turn to love. Whether you’ve been doing this work for 3 months, 3 years, or 3 decades, there are some special moments in supporting people who use AAC that never lose their shine. Here are some of our favorites.

• Finding out that your client, student, or loved one is approved to get their first AAC device 
• Overhearing someone you’ve trained tell another team member something positive about AAC
• Learning that your client or student who uses AAC advocated for themselves or got into ‘good trouble’
• Being invited into a situation where the AAC user, family, school team, and private therapy providers are all pointed in the same direction
• Sharing happy tears with a family whose child just used their AAC system to say ‘I love you’ for the first time  

Joy, relief, a sense of accomplishment, gratitude, pride, excitement, self-efficacy…Today is a great day to take some time to reflect on those experiences and savor them.

What special memories or moments bring joy to your AAC heart? We’d love to hear about them.