AAC in the Cloud

Parents can feel overwhelm with everything they need to do. Sometimes parents don't learn about our community much later or not at all. This workshop will invite parents, siblings, grandparents, and professionals to the beautiful community and to give ideas to build your local AAC community. Come learn and be amaze about our big and beautiful community.

Avoiding reduced frequency of AAC use - and potential loss of progress - is a big concern for many school-based SLPs as the summer ends. However, we know from research that while frequency of intervention is important, ensuring carry-through via training of a student's family and circle of support is an even bigger predictor of success. This session will address the rise of a consultative model of telepractice for AAC as well as general tips to help parents, siblings, and everyone else in a student's life the most powerful allies in their language acquisition.

Some autistic adults, including myself, use both speech and AAC. Out of necessity, preference, or both, we may not (only) use a dedicated device, or even a dedicated application. I will discuss why we look beyond dedicated options, other tools we may use, and how to apply this more broadly.