All in the (AAC) Family

We are fam-i-ly. All you AAC users, communication partners, and me. We are fam-i-ly. Get up everybody and raise awareness! Okay, it may not be quite as catchy as the Sister Sledge song. Have you read Dana's #AACfamily Friday blog post over at Uncommon Sense? If you haven’t, please pop on over there and read it. In this post she writes:

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AAC: No good reason to wait!

"...AAC is a means to an end, not the end and not the last resort ... Not the thing we turn to in the end, but something we can start with..."

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Do you speak AAC?

Once an appropriate AAC system has been chosen through feature matching, we need to provide the same level of immersion, experience and opportunity to AAC users as we do children developing verbal communication. We need to “speak AAC” to users in an immersive fashion for a LONG period of time before we expect any expressive use from the AAC user. We need to provide many meaningful, functional opportunities daily for the AAC user to practice.

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