Ask an Autistic #11 - What is AAC?

What is AAC? How can AAC benefit Autistic people? What are some common methods of AAC? Does the use of AAC inhibit the development of vocal language in Autistic children? Who should use AAC? Answers to all of these questions and more in this episode of Ask an Autistic!
AAC methods mentioned:
American Sign Language
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American...
www.lifeprint.com/
www.signingsavvy.com/
Signed English
sign.com.au/
www.jumpstart-autism-therapy.c...
lifestyle.iloveindia.com/loung...
Letter Board
Rapid Prompting Method
www.halo-soma.org/main.php?
Text-to-Speech (Vox)
www.dynavoxtech.com/conditions...
blog.laptopmag.com/best-autism...
How to make a letter board at home:
www.amyspeechlanguagetherapy.c...
Free AAC apps that I recommend:
verballyapp.com/
www.ispeech.org/text.to.speech
www.taptotalk.com/
appsforaac.net/app/voicesymbol
Studies on AAC and the development of vocal communication in Autistic children:
Blischak, Lombardino, And Dyson, 2003
aacworkshop.pbworks.com/f/Myth...
Miller, Light, and Schlosser, 2006
jslhr.pubs.asha.org/article.as...
www.rockybay.org.au/wp-content...
My blog: / neurowonderful
My facebook page: / amythestschaber
The captions for this video were provided by the wonderful Laurine Groux-Moreau.
The track used in this video was "Like Music" by pheraph
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