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Yoosun Chung speaking at ISSAAC
Today we are pleased to welcome Yoosun Chung, USSAAC’s past Vice President, People Who Use AAC and their Families, to share her thoughts on this summer’s International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) conference.
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I recently came...
Achieving Goals for Independence
On July the 4th, many of us celebrated our country’s independence with fireworks, parades, and barbeques. Today, Tracy Rackensperger, PhD, USSAAC’s Vice President of People Who Use AAC and their Families, shares her firsthand perspective about achieving her own personal...
My AAC Family
Today we are pleased to welcome Rebecca Sobolevsky to share her firsthand perspective about how becoming a parent to a child using AAC has changed her practice as a speech-language pathologist (SLP).
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As a young speech-language pathologist (SLP) working with...
It Takes a Village: The Importance of an AAC Community
USSAAC’s members are diverse and include augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) researchers, device manufacturers, therapists, teachers, families of individuals using AAC, and people who use AAC. SpeakUP strives to be “The Voice of AAC” by including posts by all...
Reaching for the Stars
This picture is from a video model on repair strategies that I acted in during my internship.
Today we are pleased to share a piece by a dynamic college Sophomore, Hannah Foley. In this post, she writes about her own personal AAC journey and how it has shaped her career aspirations.
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Pinpointing your passions and determining what you want to do for...
What I Learned at Gap
Today we welcome Mike Hipple, USSAAC’s director of membership, to share his personal experience from this year’s Closing the Gap conference.
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I went to the 35th annual Closing The Gap (CTG) conference this October. The conference is known for having great...
Red Tape: The Hurdles I Face Trying to Obtain a Speech Generating Device
#AACAwarenessMonth is drawing to a close and the Dogers are in the World Series for the first time since 1988. Today’s guest author, Sarah Morris, is a freelance writer for Major League Baseball Advanced Media where she regularly writes about the Dodgers. In today’s article,...
AAC in the Classroom: One Brother's Inspiration
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In today’s SpeakUp post, Janelle Hite shares the story of her son’s illuminating experience with AAC in the classroom and the powerful impact it had on their #AACFamily.
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Our eleven-year-old boy, Logan, is no stranger to dreaming big things, not only for...
