Searching for a new job or career can be majorly stressful. When you are living with a disability, you may feel more stressed about finding a good career fit. Specifically, people who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) may worry about issues like not being able to reply as quickly...
By creating some simple stories that allow an AAC reader to make selections on their device to fill in plot gaps and preferences, we give them one more chance to practice communication, express themselves, and make decisions based on what they think and feel....
Professor Stephen Hawking started communicating with his state of the art AAC system in the 1980s. The original synthesized voice he used was a recorded version of speech from MIT professor, Dennis Klatt, who was an early developer of text-to-speech technology. Years later, when Intel offered Hawking an upgraded technology...
You don't have to be famous to have great ideas and a fabulous grasp of real-life applications of concepts that you can share with others. When it comes to augmentative communication, often on the job training is the best way to really understand the needs of AAC communicators and often...
Sometimes life takes a lucky turn. And sometimes not. Maybe you've heard phrases like these as you've worked with speech and communication in the past. "You're lucky to have a way to communicate." "Isn't it lucky they helped you learn about AAC?" "What luck that...