There will be an exciting silent auction at ISAAC Cancun – and new this year we are going mobile! This fun feature at our in-person conference helps raise money to support ISAAC Conference Travel Assistance Grants. Think about contributing an item you can put in your suitcase and bring to the conference, such as items…
ISAAC Pre-Conference activities with workshops, AAC Camp, and Executive and Council Meetings
ISAAC CANCÚN, the 19th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
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.
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…
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.
Meet other USSAAC members and get updates about the organization
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.
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.
There’s a broad range of strategies and devices that individuals may use for communication if their speech isn’t functional.
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