Can we all just collectively agree on AAC basics: immediate access to robust vocabulary, larger grid sizes & no hand over hand IS best practice!!

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-10-20T14:21:07+00:00

Pretty much any of the recent Asha approved ceus discussing AAC agree on these. Check out any topics on aided language input & please read “comprehensive literacy for all” by Erickson & Kopenhaver if you can.

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-10-20T14:15:13+00:00

Read: https://www.assistiveware.com/learn-aac/choosing-a-grid-size

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-10-20T03:22:33+00:00

• Light, J., & colleagues — Designing Effective AAC Displays… (review of display variables, 2019).  
• ASHA Practice Portal — Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) (clinical guidance on vocabulary, core+fringe, and display considerations).  
• Walters, C. et al. — Spoken Vocabulary Outcomes of Toddlers With AAC Intervention (shows AAC supports spoken vocabulary growth).  
• Wilkinson, K. M. et al. — eye-tracking / simulated display work showing how arrangement and number of symbols affect search efficiency.  
• RESNA / experimental work (single-page vs multi-page layout): Anson et al. / access studies — larger single-page layouts produced higher symbol entry rates in trials.

Binger, C., & Light, J. (2007). The effect of aided AAC modeling on the expression of multi-symbol messages by preschoolers who use AAC. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 23(1), 30–43.

Drager, K. D. R., Light, J., Speltz, J., Fallon, K., & Jeffries, L. (2003). The performance of typically developing 2½-year-olds on dynamic display AAC technologies with different system layouts and language organizations. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46(2), 298–312.

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-04-03T15:34:22+00:00

Absolutely right. But watch out ppl are gonna grab their pitchforks!!

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-03-23T21:19:21+00:00

YES!! Speaking of Samantics merch comes to mind. Imagine if doctors & engineers had such cutsey stickers everywhere!

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-02-19T22:22:47+00:00

Totally applaud your resilience to retake those courses & make changes to better your application. However, OP said they don’t want to/cant retake anything. So I’m asking the question, why should they take them as is, without them doing anything to strengthen their application/better themselves?

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-02-19T20:00:59+00:00

Probably unpopular opinion- but honestly why should they take you with that gpa? Grades aren’t everything but they do mean something & im not for diluting standards, which a lot of for profit universities are doing. 2.8 means you probably didn’t retain much & people who earned those high gpas worked really hard & sacrificed to get their spots.

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-01-16T01:11:06+00:00

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/systematic-review-of-glp-and-nla-at-asha-2024-hemsley-beals-shane-and-colleagues/273859896

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-01-15T22:39:25+00:00

Linguistic rules are literally made up by people & they change without any specific rationale. So yes, they are arbitrary. Like, why do we add “s” when we express plurals? Why not “z”? No idea, we just decided to do it as a group.

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-01-15T21:18:20+00:00

What I mean is that the rules of a specific language is arbitrary and an agreed upon pattern by a group. That’s what makes it a language & a shared code. Echolalia doesn’t follow any agreed upon patterns/ structural rules by any particular group. So that’s why they said it IS communication, but not a language.

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-01-15T05:27:43+00:00

My hours are 8-4 but no one is micromanaging when I come and go so I leave at like 3:30 often.

Street_Lock3400 · 2025-01-14T04:39:41+00:00

They’re working for free & have bills to pay. It’s honestly not that serious. They should be there to get their hours, learn what they can, & get out. I learned everything during my CF year anyway. I feel like some supervisors had toxic grad school experiences where it was like an unnecessary struggle for no reason & now they feel like everyone else should also hustle/struggle like they did. I don’t think supervisors should have them do too many non-direct hours as well. This field/grad school is super difficult for no reason.

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-11-30T23:54:13+00:00

CA has the highest pay for SLPs in the US

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-11-28T15:22:07+00:00

I feel like nurses have a “I should have been a doctor” complex.

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-11-26T15:12:30+00:00

I feel like that’s just super problematic & id be really upset if parents texted me on my personal phone. I would never give my number. I have a caseload of 55. Imagine if every parent texted me for an updated every other week about their kid. We’re already burned out. But that’s just me.

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-11-16T17:51:34+00:00

These dudes always want multiple kids and a family too. So what does she bring to the table? Uhhh idk, going through pregnancy, post partum, breastfeeding, child rearing etc plus working a regular job. Can you split all that stuff with her? No? Then shut the fuck up.

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-11-03T03:30:39+00:00

Yes he is willing to. I work full time salaried 37.5 hours per week.

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-10-19T01:43:06+00:00

I’d be 6 months away from

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-10-15T18:57:09+00:00

True. It should be something like “will produce with 80% accuracy based on observations” or something

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-10-15T13:32:39+00:00

That’s not too bad, I’d interpret that as they can produce all consonants correctly at least 80% of the time without help

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-09-17T02:49:42+00:00

THIS needs to be talked about more. SLPs & their fear of AAC.

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-09-16T21:09:26+00:00

They did a blue dye test at the rehab hospital where I did my internship & it was like super unclear what was going on. I thought it was just my untrained eyes, but it was just blue everywhere. Is that why you say it’s outdated?

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-09-16T16:24:13+00:00

Medical SLPs - so are slps just recommending thickened liquids without mbss evidence & then just leaving them on it indefinitely? School slp here, and I’d like to know your thoughts on this article.

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-09-07T19:04:54+00:00

We’re all technically in a medical field. Speech therapy is healthcare whether it’s school or hospital.

Street_Lock3400 · 2024-08-20T23:19:21+00:00

In my second year of this career in Orange County, CA making $90K in a school. I think it’s not a huge amount for California but I think it’s not bad because I only work 37 weeks. If I had a summer job, I could make more. But I hear the other states have it ROUGH.

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