ISAAC Cancun Pre-Conference Activities
ISAAC Pre-Conference activities with workshops, AAC Camp, and Executive and Council Meetings
ISAAC Cancun Main Conference
ISAAC CANCÚN, the 19th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
ISAAC Silent Auction
A Silent Auction is held at each ISAAC biennial conference to raise funds for ISAAC Conference Travel Assistance Grants. This year we are going mobile! Get ready to participate in a virtual auction at ISAAC Conference Cancún.
“411 on Training 911 Responders”
DESCRIPTION: Following a conversation with a firefighter in 2014, the presenters realized emergency firstresponders were not being trained for interacting with individuals who have complexcommunication needs. This session will discuss the creation and implementation of a trainingprogram which began in 2016. Information will include a “how to” guide for contacting firstresponder departments and a brief…
Closing the Gap
The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategies.
USSAAC Meet-up at Closing the Gap
Meet other USSAAC members and get updates about the organization
SSI/SSDI/Benefits and Employment for AAC Users
This seminar will educate the target audience of adult individuals who use AAC, families, and professionals who support AAC users on the barriers to employment for people who receive SSI and SSDI and how to address those barriers. The audience will hear from an AAC user on how working has affected her SSI benefits.
Re-thinking the Role of Hand Gestures During Communication
Hand gestures are clearly not random movements; they are movements that often accompany the
spoken modality and are communicative devices. Gestures and spoken output often exhibit
semantic, pragmatic and temporal synchrony (McNeill, 1985; Kelly 2010). However, the role of
gestures during language production has not been well understood and gestures are often assigned
a compensatory role. This webinar will aim to discuss the types and the functions of hand gestures.
It will discuss the stages of development of gestures in children, and the nature of the gesture-
spoken language relationship in children and adults with or without communication impairments.
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Let’s Talk About…Camps!
AAC summer camps are becoming more and more common across the U.S., giving
AAC users the same opportunities and benefits that their typical peers enjoy. These benefits include
improving AAC usage and interpersonal skills, forming life-long friendships, taking risks in a safe environment
and meeting mentors. Options include family camps, day camps and independents. All offer opportunities
for children who use AAC to spend time with other individuals who communicate in similar ways and have
many shared experiences. Families and the professionals who spend time at AAC camps also benefit from
these experiences. In this webinar, participants will hear from two adult AAC users who will share their own
experiences as campers and mentors, a speech-language pathologist whose professional career was greatly
impacted by her work at an AAC camp and a parent who will share how attending a family AAC camp shaped
her understanding of communication and helped forge life-long friendships
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