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Helping Your Child Start Using their AAC System

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Helping Your Child Start Using their AAC System

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  1. Why Modeling is the Key to Helping Your Child Start Using their AAC System AAC stands for alternative and augmentative communication. There are many types of AAC systems that your speech language pathologist might recommend. Some types of AAC will be “low tech,” which can range from using manual signs to using picture boards and PECS (the picture exchange communication system). Other types of AAC will be “high tech,” which include a range of iPAD apps and other speech generating devices.

  2. No matter which type of alternative communication system your speech language pathologist has recommended, modeling is always the best place to start. The key to helping your child want to use their device to communicate is showing them HOW. As your child watches you use their device to talk to them, they will start to learn the purpose of the device. Imagine if someone held up a board with a bunch of words in another language and said “tell me what you want.” You would not know what to point to! This is how our children feel. They will not know how to communicate with their device without watching it happen. Visit Today here..

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