June is Child Vision Awareness Month. Vision is a very important sense for all of us, but even more so for our AAC use...
What Kinds of Questions Can You Answer?
I spend an awful lot of time and energy on Wh-Questions. I always have. Being able to answer Who, What, What doing, When, and Where questi...
Shared Reading Strategies Again - Did You See My Guest Post?
This week I was a guest blogger at One Stop Teacher Shop , talking about one of my favorite subjects - Shared Reading to Build Language Skil...
A Few Words About a Few Good Words - 5 Reasons to Use Core Vocabulary
AAC needs to be approached with the idea that the user does, indeed, have his own thoughts he wants to express – and that these thoughts are...
Is There More Than the Core? Beyond Single Words for AAC Users.
Intervention in AAC needs to continue beyond basic core vocabulary building. As with all students who lag in language skills, such skills a...
Apple Watch: OS Update Adds 7 Languages
Watch OS 1.0.1 released 5/19/15 adds support for Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Thai, Turkish. This brings the total...
What's So Different About AAC Intervention? 3 Things to know.
There are a variety of schools of thought about how to begin to provide intervention and where to begin with AAC. Many believe that it is ...
Bug in Apple's Bangla Fonts
A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that Apple's Bangla fonts (Bangla MN and Bangla Sangam MN) do not display the ...
Script and Font Support in Windows
For those who run Windows on their Mac, this page which lists the script and font support provided by that OS may be useful. https://msdn.mi...
Literacy for All Students: Are You Teaching Your AAC Users to Read?
“No student is too anything to be able to read and write” (David Yoder, ISAAC 2000) Just as language and cognition a...
10.10.3 Changes Name Of Special Characters
To provide an additional challenge to Yosemite users, with the 10.10.3 update Apple has decided to change the name of the item in the Edit m...
Apple Watch: Language Capabilities Of First Release More Limited Than iPhone
According to the Apple Watch User Guide, the Apple Watch language is set independently using the Watch app on the iPhone, via My Watch > ...
Are You Ready for Social Communication?
Just a quick post to let you know, Language Learning Apps, LLC (that's my app development company, developer of Question It - THE answer...
English Language Support during exams week
Wishing you good luck with your exams. We are still here to support you.
Expanding Communication Functions and Syntax: How Many Reasons & How Many Words
I’ve spent the past several blog posts talking about expanding response length for AAC users. Once we get them past the one word/symbol sta...
Like Free Resources? Want to Add a Bargain?
I try very hard not to use this blog for marketing purposes. That's not why I write it, and not what you are looking for when you read...
Where Did the Week Go? I Lost It.
Holy cow! Last week got right by me and I forgot to post. Life’s a whirl-wind right now. Busy at work and, on top of it, developing an AAC ...
Failure and success.
Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial What do Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Edison, Michael Jordan...
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