Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

AAC at Home: 5-7 minute activities to encourage your child to use their AAC at home

What Can Progress Look Like in AAC?

Excerpts from the AAC Implementation Toolkit by Shannon Webeckes (Speechy Musings) [Resource paid for by Stephanie Hudson]

• AAC Basics

• AAC Best Practices

• Types of AAC

• Daily Access to AAC

• Modeling / Prompting

• Core Vocabulary

• Communication Opportunities

Lite-Tech Communication Boards

• Core First Communication Books: Tobii Dynavox (6x6 and 7x6 versions available)

• Proloquo2Go Communication Boards: Assistiveware

• Customizable printable AAC Emergency Communication Board and keyboard

• These are good back-ups to have in case a high tech AAC gets broken/damaged, the power goes out, you’re going somewhere you may not want to take a device such as the pool/beach, etc.

Holiday Communication Boards

• Christmas Communication Board

How to Use Quick Communication Boards/Lite-Tech AAC

• Print multiple copies and place them in different areas of the house and/or school. Make one available in every room. Keep one in the car and one in a backpack. Take some to different places you go

• Hang the boards in easy to access locations

• Attach boards to hip packs and lanyards so you can wear your words

• Share copies with all team members

• Send the files to print shops to have poster-sized boards made

• Use with students/children that do not yet have their own AAC system

• Use in messy or wet situations, where an iPad might get damaged

• Use in outdoor locations, where sunlight on the iPad makes it hard to see

• Model on these communication boards, when the AAC user doesn’t want you to use their AAC

• Use when your AAC device is flat or broken or unavailable