Language Learning: A Lot can Happen With Scaffolding
Modelling has been a widely used strategy to support emergent AAC learners. Read on to know how scaffolding conversations in…
AAC Learning
Communication is the Name of the Game: Fun AAC Activities
Remember playing the Snake and Ladder game as kids? We learnt addition, counting, and taking turns all the while having…
Understanding Communicative Competence for AAC Users
For AAC users to communicate autonomously, they need to achieve proficiency in skills that enable them to freely express themselves.…
Literacy Activities for Emergent AAC Users
Communication is often the focus of AAC learning and parents and professionals tend to overlook the need to develop literacy…
Using Descriptive Teaching to Support the Learning of AAC users
We want communicators to have access to a wide range of vocabulary so that their communication is not inhibited and…
Building Language for All Communicative Purposes – Requesting and Emotions
In the previous two blogs we’ve been learning about communicative purposes/functions such as rejecting and commenting as well as Greetings…
Building Language for All Communicative Functions – Greetings and Questions
In the previous blog, we learnt strategies and vocabulary required for a few communicative functions such as Refusing and…
Building Language for All Communicative Functions
There are several reasons we communicate. Sometimes, we communicate just to get the attention of a loved one while other…
Building Literacy: Teaching Grammar to AAC Users
Autonomous communication and boundless expression are very much the primary goals of AAC. While we focus on developing communication skills,…
Expansion of Language: Supporting AAC Learner’s Progress
We often see that one of the major stumbling blocks for an emergent communicator’s progress is the struggle to get…