it takes 100-200 hours of tutoring with a specialist, and NOT counting time spent practicing alone, for a cognitively sound adult to learn 2,000 words on an AAC system and communicate effectively
all children who need it are given 200 hours of tutoring with a specialist
a person can start communicating as soon as they have learnt the locations for one or two messages on their communication aid
we all say the same few hunded words for over three quarters of everything we say
speech therapists know all about aac
communication is nothing to do with education, it's a health issue
the communication aid is too complex for him
sally couldn't possibly do that
it might hinder her natural speech development
he just doesn't seem to want to use his communication aid
he just comes out with gobbledegook when he does use it
AAC is not suitable for everybody, especially not [name of cohort group]
it is rarely the child's fault when an AAC system is abandoned
even more important than the freedom of speech is the freedom to speak
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