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Please share this invitation with anyone whom you think may be interested.
In celebration of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Awareness Month October 2012, you are invited to participate in the . . . Read More For more information e-mail info@aacawareness.org
New for 2012!! This year, we are expanding our social media by starting a blog. We wish to use the blog as another way for people to get information, announcements, and updates on AAC Awareness Month. We hope that our blog will be useful for everyone, and in particular we hope it will help people who do not use yet Facebook and Twitter to stay better informed. The blog is still being designed and modified, but you are welcome to see it as it takes shape and as we learn how to use this medium effectively. The blog name is International AAC Awareness Month and the address is http://aacawarenessmonth.blogspot.com/.
Resources for conducting an AAC World hands-on event:
The creative and generous staff at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto, Canada, have shared with us the materials for their AAC World event held each October. The event has ten stations where participants interact using different AAC methods. To learn more and to explore and download templates, scripts, materials lists, and other resources, follow this link…
Singing with AAC Technology
Would you or someone you know like to sing using a communication device? We have some AAC advocacy songs to download free to communication devices that accept MP3 files. They are “If I Had a VOCA (voice output communication device)” and the “ABCs of Communication Rights”, set to familiar tunes. For more information and to download the songs, use this link. AAC music
Power of Communication Relays:
I am Faye Warren, the chairman of people who use communication devices for the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC). One of my duties is to organize the 2011 and 2012 International AAC Awareness Month task force in the United States. We are focused on raising the awareness of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and to inform the public about the many ways in which people may communicate using communication devices.
We would like to organize relays in cities nationwide to help spread awareness of multimodal communication in adults and children with disabilities. The name of relay is The Power of Communication. This event will take place every October starting in 2011. The relays will be held at a high school or college tracks and the money raised will go to local organizations to help support awareness of AAC.
Would you be interested in sponsoring our cause by donating your time, financial assistance, or snacks and beverages? It would help the enhancement of personal life skills through communication devices by supporting access to inclusive early education for children, and families with disabilities in a world of possibilities. In addition to helping the AAC community, it will also help and enhance your business or organization locally and nationwide.
I would really appreciate this so much. I will look forward to hearing from you. Please pass or copy and paste this message to everybody to whom you know especially to the companies and organizations to whom you think would be interested in sponsoring us and provide us with volunteers.
For more information, see my video on YouTube about the Power of Communication Relays http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6_Wa6d9b_k
Augmentative Communication Awareness Campaigns and Projects Around the World
Please let us know about your AAC campaigns and projects so that we may highlight them here.Please share this invitation with anyone whom you think may be interested.
In celebration of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Awareness Month October 2012, you are invited to participate in the . . . info@aacawareness.org
Hello: Talk, Listen, Take Part
Hello, the 2011 national year of communication, is a campaign to increase understanding of how important it is for children and young people to develop good communication skills. In the 21st century, the ability to communicate - to say what you want to say and to understand what other people are saying - is fundamental. Read more… http://www.hello.org.uk/
Kilometres for Communication
We're partnering with the Canadian Chapter of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC), an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Together we're conducting a public education, information and awareness campaign to change provincial policies so that vital AAC services, supports and technology are consistently available in all provinces. We're campaigning for the people who must have these services in order to fully participate in Canadian society, and our goal is for accessibility and inclusion--for the more than 3 million Canadians with disabilities--to become a national priority. Read more… http://kilometresforcommunication.com/
2010 Resources
Spotlight
Teen cycling across Canada to raise awareness about alternative communication
‘People who aren’t able to speak have lots to say’
Monday January 17, 2011 -- Natalie Hamilton
Driven to create a better world for his brother and others who speak using alternative communication methods, Skye Wattie is cycling across Canada this summer. Read more… http://www.communitylivingontario.ca/news-events/news/teen-cycling-across-canada-raise-awareness-about-alternative-communication
Information and links from AAC Awareness Month 2010
(move info and links about 2010 events, etc., to another page and link to it from the home page, so they are not lost from the site)
ISAAC 2012 conference is in Pittsburgh, USA http://www.isaac2012.org
Registration opens!
July 28-29 Pre-conference workshop and AAC Camp
July 30-August 2 Main conference
August 3-4 ISAAC Research Symposium
