Why Use AAC for Toddlers or Children?
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What is AAC and why is it important for toddlers and children?
Hey everybody, this is Carrie Clark, and you are listening to episode number sixty-four of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast. This is the podcast with resources and activities for speech therapists as well as for parents of children with speech and language delays. Today we are talking about AAC, also known as augmentative or alternative communication. And we're gonna talk about how you would use this with a child, why you would use this with a child, and when you would use it. So we're gonna be talking about all the nitty-gritties of AAC and just kind of giving you a good overview. This is a topic that I've touched on before on the the website and the podcast, but it's something that always comes up as um
something that people are looking for more information for. So hopefully this will be a nice updated version for those of you who have listened to the previous information about AAC. But I'm going to give you some really good in-depth information today. Now, before I get there, I want to share a resource with you. And this is my late talker ebook. So I have an ebook that is specifically for parents of children who are late talkers. And these would be kiddos that are late to talk. So they're not saying as many words as they should for their age. Typically, we're looking at younger children for this, although I have had parents use this with older children as well. Well, yeah.
When should parents and clinicians consider AAC for a child?
Basically what it is is it's an eight week program that you do at home and it it essentially will just teach you better ways to communicate with your child that will be more likely to help that child learn language. So it's not so much something that you're going to be expecting your child to do, but it's just teaching you a different way to communicate that's going to be more helpful for that child in his quest to learn language. So if you are interested in that ebook, it is a digital download. So you can purchase it and then download it right away and get started. You can head on over to speechandlanguage kids dot com slash late talker book. So that's all one word, no dashes there at the end, just late talker book at the end.
Speechandlanguage kids dot com slash late talker book. That will take you over to the Jumpstart Your Late Talker book. Uh it gives you all kinds of good activities to try at home to try to improve your child's communication. Plus, it's also something that I've had a lot of speech therapists download either to send home as homework. So they'll send the sheets home as homework or they'll use them as their lesson plans for their speech therapy session. So head on over and check that out. But for now, let's hop on into our information about AAC. Okay, so just so you know, I'm gonna give you a lot of information today and there are notes for all of this over on the website. So if you go to speechandlanguage kids dot com slash episode six four, that will take you to the show notes for this episode, which will
also allow you to allow you to download the AAC sh cheat sheet. Gosh, I'm having trouble. The AAC cheat sheet, which will give you all of the different types of AAC with some pictures so you can kind of figure out the difference between the different types of systems and devices. So Let's jump in. So let's start by just talking about what is AAC. So AAC stands for augmentative and alternative communication. And this is a term that's used to describe any form of communication that a person can use that is not speech. So it's not speaking with your mouth. So this can include using pictures of what a person wants. It can be using sign language. It can be using a device that will speak a message when a specific button is pushed.
There's all kinds of different AAC. It's basically just anything that's not speech but allows us to communicate with others. So when should we be considering AAC for a child? Well, AAC should be considered for any child whose speech output, so their ability to speak, is not adequate to communicate everything that that child wants or needs to communicate. So the obvious choice here is if we have a kiddo who can't speak at all.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is AAC and why is it important for toddlers and children?
0:00–1:22
2
When should parents and clinicians consider AAC for a child?
1:22–4:44
3
What are common misconceptions about prerequisite skills for AAC?
4:44–6:08
4
What different types of AAC devices and systems are available?
6:08–8:41
5
How can families get a proper AAC evaluation and choose a system?
8:41–11:14
6
What are the step‑by‑step strategies to introduce AAC to a child?
11:14–13:45
7
How should adults reinforce AAC use and keep the device accessible?
13:45–16:15
8
Why is training all caregivers essential for successful AAC use?
16:15–25:44