Literacy Activities for Emergent AAC Users
Communication is often the focus of AAC learning and parents and professionals tend to overlook the need to develop literacy…
AAC Learning
Using Descriptive Teaching to Support the Learning of AAC users
We want communicators to have access to a wide range of vocabulary so that their communication is not inhibited and…
Building Language for All Communicative Purposes – Requesting and Emotions
In the previous two blogs we’ve been learning about communicative purposes/functions such as rejecting and commenting as well as Greetings…
Building Language for All Communicative Functions – Greetings and Questions
In the previous blog, we learnt strategies and vocabulary required for a few communicative functions such as Refusing and…
Building Language for All Communicative Functions
There are several reasons we communicate. Sometimes, we communicate just to get the attention of a loved one while other…
Building Literacy: Teaching Grammar to AAC Users
Autonomous communication and boundless expression are very much the primary goals of AAC. While we focus on developing communication skills,…
Expansion of Language: Supporting AAC Learner’s Progress
We often see that one of the major stumbling blocks for an emergent communicator’s progress is the struggle to get…
Language Builder Resources: Play, Learn, Communicate!
AAC is primarily for communication. But it’s important that we focus on developing literacy skills of the communicators too. Once…
Smart Games AAC users can Play with Digital Assistants
Fart noises, Yucky sounds, and Rock Paper Scissors. What more does a bored kid need to to liven up their…
Core Word Ideas
Core words are the small number of words that are used most frequently in our conversations. About 80% of the…