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Assistive Devices for people with Hearing, Speech and Language Disorders

Assistive Technology is any item customized to increase, maintain or improve function capabilities of a child with a disability. An often use technology for hearing, speech and language disorders is an Augmentative and Alternative Communication Device (AAC). This device is used tp help people with communication disorders to express themselves. These devices can range from a single picture board to a computer program that synthesizes speech from the text. Individuals who use AAC have severe expressive communication disorders that characterized by impairments in speech, language, reading, and writing.AAC includes all of the ways we share our ideas and feelings without talking. We all use forms of AAC every day. You use AAC when you use facial expressions or gestures instead of talking. You use AAC when you write a note and pass it to a friend or coworker. We may not realize how often we communicate without talking.

AAC is a set of tools and strategies that an individual uses to solve everyday communicative challenges. Communication can take many forms such as: speech, a shared glance, text, gestures, facial expressions, touch, sign language, symbols, pictures, speech-generating devices, etc. Everyone uses multiple forms of communication, based upon the context and our communication partner. Effective communication occurs when the intent and meaning of one individual is understood by another person. The form is less important than the successful understanding of the message. http://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ebip/augmentative-and-alternative-communication/

How to use the ACC

Family members, caregivers, and school staff should be trained on how best to support your child's use of AAC. Training should be done by a person who is knowledge in AAC.

Proper Training: -Showing you how to use AAC with your child -Help you choose appropriate vocabulary for your child -Teach your program and operate your child's communication device

Where to purchase the device and the price?

https://www.rehabmart.com/search/landing.asp?q=Augmentative+and+Alternative+Communications+Device

Hyperlinks for more research: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/07434618.2010.481092?scroll=top&needAccess=true& http://www.amazingkids.org/Therapy-Services/Augmentative-Alternative-Communication https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/communication-disorders/understanding-language-disorders

YouTube video to site how the AAC is used in a educational setting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2VlH1JdubI

Digital Equity

Digital Equity : Digital equity is known as equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources.

Key issues teachers must consider to appropriately provide equitable technology access and learning opportunities for all students

They tend to be inclusive, not exclusive. They work best in context with other ideas and concepts, not in isolation. They often focus on students working within social situations rather than alone. Their activities, techniques, and goals are interactive and interdisciplinary, realistic rather than esoteric. Possibly most important, they empower students to be actively involved in the processes of their own learning, rather than passively receptive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tygjtJxaHXM