Event

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Learn about events being planned around the world
Get ideas for organizing your community’s event
Be a part of the International Celebration
A list of 2010 events is here.  Check it out for events in your community
The reports about events during International AAC Month 2009 can be found Here

In October 2010, to celebrate ISAAC’s fourth annual AAC Awareness Month, selected stories from the Many Cultures, One Dream:  To Communicate (MMOD) online collection will be read or viewed in community settings all over the world. In order to assist people who wish to participate, the AAC Awareness Month Task Force has come up with a list of preliminary ideas of how to plan and facilitate this celebration of communication and AAC users worldwide.  These ideas are just a start, and we invite you to comment, suggest new ideas, and let us know about your plans for celebrating by emailing us at events@aacawareness.org .
Thank you.

• Sarah Lever, the Chair of International AAC Month Committee

Please note that a volunteer task force for AAC Awareness Month planning developed these ideas.  We welcome suggestions and feedback at events@aacawareness.org.

International AAC Awareness Month 2010 – Many Cultures, One Dream:  Communication Without Barriers

The AAC Awareness task force has several exciting projects for the 2010 AAC Awareness Campaign.  It has developed a video to promote the campaign:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfDHahudrxk

Also, it is issuing two challenges to encourage more participation around the world.  It challenges every country and state:

• to submit at least one entry to the online writing and video collection  (Date due:  June 1) and
• to conduct and report on at least one AAC Awareness event in October. 

Please help spread the word about these two important challenges.  Help bring information and advocacy for AAC to all parts of the globe. 

A new project for 2010 is the AAC Awareness Songs—Inclusive Singing Videos Project.  People who use AAC are invited to use their AAC to sing or sign one of our AAC Advocacy songs with family and friends and capture it on video:  “If I Had a VOCA” or “ABCs of Communication Rights”.  The task force will merge videos from around the world to make two harmonies of communication and singing with technology.  Date due:  August 15.  

You may follow International AAC Month on Facebook and Twitter. 
Find out more at http://www.aacawareness.org/ 
Please e-mail inquiries to info@aacawareness.org