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AAC Awareness Month 2019: Communication Beyond Borders
October is AAC Awareness Month. Join AAC communicators and AAC advocates around the world in spreading information, advocating, and becoming active in improving access to communication for all!
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Let’s Talk AAC: “5 Awesome AAC Conferences Not to Miss!”
Welcome back to Let's Talk AAC - a series of questions and topics for discussion.
With back-to-school just behind us, AAC Awareness Month right around the corner, and the NWACS Fall Conference in under a month, it seems like a great time to chat about some exciting AAC learning opportunities may or may not know about.
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Let’s Talk AAC: “Tools for evaluating emerging communicators” (part 2)
Welcome back to Let's Talk AAC - a series of questions and topics for discussion.
In this post, we explore the topic of paid tools for evaluating emerging communicators.
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2019 ATAAC Conference
Learn about the 2019 ATAAC Conference in Croatia - and how you can watch it all online! Professors, students, and professionals working with non-profits get FREE registration!
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New Discoveries: Northwest Access Fund
Let’s Talk AAC: “Tools for evaluating emerging communicators” (part 1)
Welcome back to Let's Talk AAC - a series of questions and topics for discussion.
In this post, we explore the topic of free tools for evaluating emerging communicators.
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AAC Spotlight: Lauren S. Enders, MA, CCC-SLP
AAC Spotlight is a series of interviews that we hope inspires, connects, and grows our knowledge and community.
In the Spotlight: Lauren S. Enders, MA, CCC-SLP
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AACademics AAC Research Summary: Teaching Partner-Focused Questions to Individuals Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication to Enhance Their Communicative Competence by Light, Binger, Agate, and Ramsay (1999)
AACademics: Each month, NWACS Contributor Julia highlights hot topics in AAC Research in a format that makes for some lighter reading and helps us apply current research to our AAC learners.
This month Julia summarizes a study that looks at teaching AAC users to ask partner-focused questions and measuring the effect on how other’s view their Communicative Competence.
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Back to School with the DAGG-2
NWACS Contributor Kylee shares why the DAGG-2 is on her back-to-school agenda.
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AACademics AAC Research Summary: Teaching Children Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication to Ask Inverted Yes/No Questions by Kent-Walsh, Binger, and Buchanan (2015)
AACademics: Each month, NWACS Contributor Julia highlights hot topics in AAC Research in a format that makes for some lighter reading and helps us apply current research to our AAC learners.
This month Julia summarizes an article that looks at the effects of a direct intervention using AAC models and contrastive targets to target asking inverted yes/no questions.
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