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AAC at Home: Reading Your Child's Signals Around the Device

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Augmentative and alternative communication, or AAC, is any tool or system beyond natural speech that supports or replaces spoken communication. Picture boards, core vocabulary boards, speech-generating devices, letterboards, typing, sign and gesture systems all count.And the question most parents carry into it has a short answer. Using AAC won'
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Silence to Signals™ is a course for parents of non-speaking and minimally-speaking autistic children, built by Dr. Catherine C. Acotto, PhD, CCC-SLP, from 26+ years and 50,000+ hours of direct clinical work.
It teaches you to read your child's full communication system: the signals, what behavior is communicating, and the moments your child is most ready to connect. The articles here answer the questions parents ask most.
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