Category: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Let’s be honest…a lot of us don’t feel comfortable working with severe to profound students when we start out. Yet there are some SLPs who seem to have it all figured out. People listen to them and respect what they say. They have parents using AAC at home and teachers using it in their classrooms….

I remember one of the first times I had a student who used a high-tech voice output device. Getting the district to pay for the device was a huge hurdle, and I’d managed to overcome it. Little did I know I had a huge roadblock still ahead. By the time the shiny new device had…

We’ve all been there. You get that student who has an AAC device. Maybe you watch some videos or participate in an in-service so you know how to work the app or program on your student’s AAC device. But then you put the device in front of your student, and they throw it across the…

When it came to working with students who needed AAC, I was in a state of panic for the first few years of my career. I used to walk out of sessions drenched in sweat because I found them so stressful. I remember one particular kiddo who really threw me for a loop. I thought…