#communication booklet

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call for help from AAC users ! would like input

Hello! am doing well , not much need for AAC anymore since I only need it when am sick and am doing better now . anyway am doing a thing for TAFE , is a pretend library event about AAC for abled children to teach them how to be polite . here is what I have . is there anything am missing ? ( taken from notes app )

under cut because is long .

aac, just like me!

time allotted: 2 hours age demographic: 5-9 years capacity: 15-20 children + 1 adult per child/family guest speakers: 'elliot', a 10 year old aac user and service dog handler. 'candace', a speech therapist who specialises in aac. order of activities: acknowledgement of country/going over behaviour guidelines (see handout)/visual schedule of event, story time - a day with no words + this is how we talk, conversation about what aac is, meeting elliot (he talks about how to show active respect to aac users in conversation), hand out aac booklets (tobii dynavox my first aac booklet), meeting candace (she teaches the kids how to use their booklets), open conversation time where kids practice using their booklets, go home (kids keep their booklets).

stylistic choices: all powerpoint slide text and handout text is made up of screenshots of aac sentences (using proloquo2go). this allows children not yet confident in reading to understand what is being said, as well as introducing everyone to symbol based communication.

handout: clear instructions, positive language (as in saying what we do, not what we don't do). draft text: There will be things here that we may not be used to. Can we say what some of those things are? The words we use are simple, and each word has a picture. We know that these things can help people who might be different to us, so that everybody can enjoy our time today.   One of our visitors has a service dog. A service dog is a dog that helps our visitor with their health. The dog is working. This means we don’t pat her or call out to her, because that can make her stop helping our visitor. Instead, we have our hands in our own bubble, our voices off, and our focus on our visitor.   One of our visitors might take a long time to say things. Instead of chatting with each other or trying to guess what they will say, we wait patiently and keep quiet so that they know people are listening. If we talk when our visitor is typing, that's interrupting.

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my first try at a light tech AAC booklet !

was going to make it when had the ability to laminate , get perfect . but decided to go for it and upgrade later when I can .

it caused a lot of problems for me with the printing , but I am proud of it ! had to get rid of 2 pages ( phrase board and medical information ) because ran out of ink and tried double sided printing at first ( didn't work ) . frustrating but oh well .

( blacked out is because is my family's names and photos )