AAC & Community with Stepping into AAC (Weeks 18-19)

We’re in the home stretch of our Stepping Into AAC series! Follow along as we continue with a focus on ‘AAC on the go’ and talk about connecting with the AAC community. If you missed the earlier posts, you can view those using the links below.

• Introduction: A PrAACtical Guide to Stepping into AAC
• Week 1: Starting a Journey with Stepping into AAC
• Weeks 2-5: Building a Foundation with Stepping into AAC 
• Weeks 6-8: Customizing AAC Tools with Stepping into AAC
• Weeks 9-12: Getting More Comfortable with AAC Practices
• Weeks 13-14: AAC & Reading
• Weeks 15-17: AAC in Everyday Life

Target Words: do, he, over, she, they, where

Communicative Intents: Social exchanges, exclamations, & humor

Hands-on Activities: Try your best to complete the 5 daily activities, each of which take less than 10 minutes. These brief, simple AACtion steps help in building habits of AAC use that will allow your AAC learner to be successful. Get your hands on their AAC device or communication board to:

• Ask
• Find
• Joke
• Look
• Play
• Practice
• Say
• Share

Videos: This week’s videos round out our look at AAC in the community and address nuances that can help your AAC learner be successful. Learn about the role of slang, get a perspective on including age-relevant words in their AAC tools, and gain more insight into effective AAC use in the community.

Print Resources: This week’s handouts focus on using AAC to help your AAC learner introduce themselves to new people and communicate with words/phrases that their peers are using. 

WEEK 18

• Social Power with AAC: Slang & Age-Relevant Words
• Language Walk-Through: AAC Use at an Appointment

WEEK 19

• Building Community with AAC
• Social Power with AAC: Introduction Message

Join us next time for our final post as we wrap up the Stepping Into AAC series.