Generalisation: AAC outside the therapy room
Teletherapy for AAC learning comes with many surprising benefits. But teaching generalisation of skills can be quite difficult in remote…
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Online Therapy for All – Communication Intervention for AAC Users
Although online therapy for communication intervention or teletherapy has been around for years, it has only become commonplace since the…
What Questions Are You Asking your AAC Learners?
Questions are a part of any conversation. We ask and answer questions several times when talking to someone. It may…
Operational Competence for High Tech AAC Users
If we want AAC users to achieve communicative competence, we need to focus on building the five component skill areas…
About Open Ended Questions for AAC Learners
What kind of questions to ask to maximize engagement with AAC learners? While close-ended questions are quite common, read this…
Coaching communication partners in AAC Teletherapy
Tele practice has become the norm of the day and AAC Teletherapy is no exception. With all the tools available…
Supporting Transition from Picture to Text-based AAC
The beauty of a robust AAC system is that communicators who start out using pictures can go on to use…
Encouraging Communicators to Build Longer Sentences
Often when communicators are using only single words, there is a certain amount of frustration involved at the inability to…
Building Choice Making in AAC Learners
Open-ended questions are important to encourage self-determination skills while binary choices may be used to encourage choice making in beginning…
Using AAC at Home: Simple Ideas for Families
When AAC is fully integrated into everyday activities, learning AAC can become easier for the communicator. Especially, when everyone in…