By Jacob MacAinsh, student Jacob My name is Jacob. I am 14 years old. I go to school at Belleville East High School in Illinois. I’m using my iPad to talk. I like to play games during my free time. I like to play on the Wii. I like to play Pokemon. It’s a show and a game. I like to play it alone and with my dad. Playi...

By Gretchen Bright, B.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Well, at least it is for me and about 570 million other folks worldwide in the month of March. Birthdays and holidays are a really fun time to incorporate more language with a communication device. Just think of all the fun things we say during a birthday or other holidays! Ev...

_ By Marianna du Bosq, Sep 6, 2015 | Bilingual Parenting, Learning English, Learning Spanish, Multilingual Kids, Multilingual Parenting, Raising Multicultural Kids_ Whenever I am asked how to teach and maintain a child’s language proficiency, I always refer to the two “key ingredients,” providing enough exposur...

By Kara Bidstrup, M.S., CCC-SLP Grade level core academic standards and engaging curriculum can be used as the foundation for meaningful language learning for children who use AAC. The online class,It’s Not Rocket Science: Learning to Talk with AAC in Science Class, outlines a process to make this concept a classroo...

By Jacob MacAinsh, student A couple of weeks ago, Jacob wrote his first blog for the AAC Language Lab. He got a wonderful response from readers and a couple of folks asked him questions. In today’s blog, Jacob responds to the questions. Thank you for the most awesome notes! Let me tell more about myself. School i...

By David Chapple In 1996, I had been out of college for about two years. I met my future wife Kate at the Pittsburgh Employment Conference (PEC) for augmentative communicators. The conference was for individuals who use communication devices. I was from Ohio and she was from Texas. Our eyes met and we just knew, it was lo...