Augcomm New Jersey Site is Live

The new Augcomm New Jersey site is live.   Please let me know if you’d like to contribute as a guest blogger.  I’m looking for product/technology reviews from SLPs, assistive technology experts, teachers and parents.

Augcomm New Jersey for Parents and Professionals – Somerset – 9/26/11

This SpeakerSelect event offered a process-oriented overview of the steps necessary to create a person-first strategy for the use of augmentative and alternative communication tools. The event addressed:

-Effectively integrating AAC into classroom routines and activities

-AAC Strategies to reduce behavior concerns and enhance quality of life

-Evaluating high-tech and low-tech AAC tools based on an individual’s needs

-Selecting  vocabulary goals to support appropriate and meaningful communication

-Parent/professional collaboration to enhance a child’s communication ability at home, in school and in the community

-Funding of AAC devices

Thanks to Prentke Romich and Saltillo for sponsoring.  Thanks to NJCART for promotional assistance and for exhibiting.  Thanks to Advancing Opportunities for providing technology demonstrations to show what’s possible with the latest devices and software, including the iPad and lots of AAC apps.