by Tamiko Teshima, M.A., CCC-SLP Practice Owner and Speech-Language Pathologist Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC When it comes to AAC, many, MANY myths exist (see this Facebook post or this blog post). By far, the one I hear the most often is that AAC will become a crutch and the person using the AAC...
by Anna Dubiak, M.S., CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pathologist Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC There are two kinds of language processors in the world: analytical language processors and gestalt language processors (GLP). Analytical language processors learn language from the ground up, building with sounds, to words, to sentences, to full blown conversations! This is the style of...
Anna Dubiak, M.S., CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC What is AAC? AAC stands for augmentative and alternative communication. Ok… but what does that mean? There are all types of AAC ranging from use of low tech such as printed pictures with wants and needs, to robust high tech systems such as an iPad application...
I talk a lot about core words on our Facebook and Instagram pages, but what in the world are they and why would anyone teach them? AssistiveWare defines core words as the “50-400 words that make up the majority of everything we say.” There are a bunch of really interesting studies out there that used...
Today, we continue our Fall Language Series. Last week, we talked about language development at the apple orchard. This week, we’re taking it to the pumpkin patch, AAC style. For those of you who don’t know, AAC stands for alternative and augmentative communication. AAC is, essentially, any form of expressive language that isn’t spoken words....
Core boards are the perfect way to model language for students. They help teach pronouns, verbs, adjectives and can help with increasing mean length of utterance (MLU).
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