With more and more children, teens, and adults being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), we must learn new ways to communicate and teach. Luckily, techniques and technology have evolved to ...

The first app to use artificial intelligence to power an alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) tool for profoundly autistic and other minimal- and non-speaking users was recently unveiled ...

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) encompasses a range of strategies and technologies designed to support individuals with complex communication needs. These systems enable users to ...

CYPRESS, Texas -- Archer Calder, a teenager from Cypress, Texas, grew up unable to have a conversation with his younger sister Della. She has a rare genetic disorder called Bainbridge-Ropers syndrome ...

For people who can’t speak, there has been depressingly little innovation in technology that helps them communicate. In December 2022, a few months after learning that he’d won an Iowa Arts Fellowship ...

A communication board is a device that displays photos, symbols, or illustrations to help people with limited language skills express themselves. The user can gesture, point to, or blink at images to ...

Thirty international researchers are among those who will attend a workshop May 31 through June 2 in Buffalo focused on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), which is used by people who ...

My first encounter with the method known as “facilitated communication” (FC) dates back to 1990, at the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Conference held in ...

Speech is heard but if one cannot respond with speech themselves, are there other ways? These alternative means of communication are called Augmentative Alternative Communication or AAC tools. sign ...