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Top 5 AAC-Inspired Resolutions for 2020!
Happy New Year! 🎉 As we step into the new year (and decade), NWACS President Tanna asks us to consider adding some AAC flare to our new year’s resolutions for 2020, and offers five ideas to jumpstart our thinking.
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AACademics AAC Research Summary: Comparative Effects of High-Tech Visual Scene Displays and Low-Tech Isolated Picture Symbols on Engagement From Students With Multiple Disabilities by Holyfield, Brooks, and Schluterman (2019)
AACademics: 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.
In this summary, Julia takes a look at research comparing the level of engagement for early communicators between two very different methods of AAC.
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District Core Vocabulary Initiative: How We Did It
NWACS Contributor Margaret shares about a core word initiative in her school district.
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New Discoveries: AAC Agreements Clearinghouse
New Discoveries: AAC/AT Resources to Explore
Highlighted Resource: AAC Agreements Clearinghouse
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NWACS 2019 Survey
We value your input! Please take the NWACS 2019 Survey!
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5 Sources for AAC/AT Webinars
NWACS President Tanna shares five free and fee-based webinar resources offering exciting topics in AAC and AT!
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New Discoveries: AAC Language Lab
Let’s Talk AAC: “Carrying straps for AAC devices?”
Welcome back to Let's Talk AAC - a series of questions and topics for discussion.
A key AAC implementation step is making sure the AAC communicator has access to their AAC system at all times. So, let’s talk carrying straps!
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New Discoveries: Unified Listing
AACademics AAC Research Summary: Using AAC Models, Recasts, and Contrastive Targets to Teach Grammatical Morphemes to Children Who Use AAC by Binger, Maguire-Marshall, and Kent-Walsh (2011)
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.
Julia reaches back in time again this month to summarize a study that looks at teaching grammatical morphemes to AAC users using aided AAC models, recasts, and contrastive targets.
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