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** Important ** Latest news for PRC-Saltillo app users (TouchChat and LAMP) - removing support for iOS 14 (click below for more info)

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We are looking for a Speech-Language Pathologist with a passion for AAC and Assistive Technology to join our team!

Recruitment

Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction - Building Wings Take every student to new heights in their literacy learning including students with complex needs with evidence-based literacy instruction from Building Wings.

Check out www.marykatherinedally.com and download her free manual that shoes you how to create switch adapted toys!!! Great resource!!!

Yes we want expanded languages and sentence formulation with AAC.

But if you ask a question that can be answered in a single word, requiring an AAC communicator to say a full sentence isn’t helpful. It’s frustrating. The communication was successful with a single word utterance.

e.g.,

“What do you want for lunch.”

“Pizza.”

“Make a long sentence.”

If you want to model the sentence after, by all means. But don’t just model “I want.” Model “I like pizza. Sounds good. Me too! Great idea!”

Please, don’t require a child to say “I want pizza,” to get pizza.

UPDATE 4/19/24, 11:19 a.m. ET

On Thursday, April 18, 2024 an issue was detected that is currently preventing the Empower® software from loading on Accent® devices. Our team quickly identified the issue and has worked diligently to resolve it so that our customers’ voices can be restored. Please check out our blog https://www.prc-saltillo.com/articles/empower-notice... for UPDATED and detailed information on how to fix your device. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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Today is National Assistive Technology Awareness Day!!

https://ataporg.org/policy-and-advocacy/national-at-awareness-day/

Thanks to Lauren Enders Gonzales, MA, CCC - SLP for sharing out this resource from CALL Scotland!

New on the CALL blog, an infographic poster to download and a discussion on the Who, What, and Why of Assistive Technologies and Digital Learning:

https://www.callscotland.org.uk/blog/looking-for-a-new-resource-to-support-learners-with-asn/

Lauren Enders Gonzales, MA, CCC - SLP has published her infographic on all the apps that will be one sale over the next several weeks!!! Thank you, Lauren!!!

Thanks for waiting!! Check out this list of HUGE AAC and Special Education app and product deals. Mark your calendars carefully!

UPDATE 03/28/24: For a screenreader-friendly document providing all sale details and information, use https://bit.ly/AllTextSpringAACAppSales24

For a PDF with clickable links to websites, the U.S. App Store, and the U.S. Google Play Store, use https://bit.ly/SpringAACAppSales24

I’m not able to answer individual requests for app recommendations. There are no more hours in the day. 😩

Today is Day 1 of our 2-day Introduction to AT course. Great group of educators here with us today!