What is AAC?

AAC stands for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, which describes the many ways people can communicate who find it difficult to communicate with speech or writing. AAC may involve the use of gestures, signing, letter or word boards, symbol or picture displays, and/or specialized computers with computer-generated voices. These methods may be helpful to anyone who has difficulty communicating with speech, whether it’s because of a learning disability, cerebral palsy, stroke, ALS, MS, an acquired brain injury, aphasia, autism, dementia or any other condition or disease which interferes with speech.

Check out these videos about AAC, and about some of the people who communicate in alternative ways:

1Voice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ZlUnU8Oeo

Many Methods, One Goal: Communication

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCfC4ew8i08

AAC: What Does It Mean to You?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1QIhWa_4_A

The AAC Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VzzqnzXmOQ

I Want to Ride my Bike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1XTjlP-kSM

Singing with AAC: “If I had a VOCA”