Occasionally, we receive questions from people regarding the AAC needs of those they serve.  Please feel free to post these types of questions on the Message Board for input from all.  If anyone has any additional information on these questions, please let us know by sending e-mail to:  julie@aacintervention.com

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Do you have any good websites or listserves especially for parents of children who use AAC?

Responses:
From Caroline Musselwhite:
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*A forum for RESNA, USSAAC, & ASHA:
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*ACOLUG:  A forum for users of augmentative communication:
     listserv@vm.temple.edu

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*Funding policy forum in the area of AAC:

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What stories are out there about AAC users. I asked Sarah Blackstone, and she helped me find Sara's Surprise by Nan Holcomb....but it's a relatively old book.  I'm a Speech Pathologist on an AAC Intervention team in athe Syracuse City School District (Syracuse, NY). I'd love to find stories I can read with and adapt for my AAC users ABOUT AAC users. Also, we have many inclusive classrooms here, and I'd love books about AAC users to share with multiage groups.  Do you know of any?
Thanks!  Floris Palmer
 
From Angela Standridge, M.A. CCC-SLP:  How about incorporating literacy.  One of the
best ways to increase a teacher's/therapists library is to have the students  create/publish books/stories.  AAC users could create stories about themselves in some kind of multimedia program.  You would then have a collection of stories in electronic format that you could use text readers with as well as print in hard copy.

From Bob Conti:  Rick Creech's book, Reflections from a Unicorn.  Also Dennis Hollman has just published a book, Here's what you need to order. If ordering by phone: Call 1-800-839-8640. It's best to ask for Jennifer Orndorff.  Title: 360 Degrees of Verklemptitude:  The Living Legend of Dr. Impossible.

OR

GO TO WWW.1STBOOKS.COM

1. GENRE- AUTOBIO
2. LOOK FOR TITLE
3. CLICK ON TITLE
4. VISA/MASTERCARD
5. MAILING ADDRESS
6. BILLING ADDRESS
7. SPECIFY  # OF COPIES
8. CLICK ON SUBMIT ORDER
THATS IT

From Carol Goossens':  We Media (a lifestyle magazine for the Handicapped) is expanding their website to include an Activities section for children with special needs. I understand there is an upcoming series of 12 stories (one per month) that will center around 11 or 12 characters, several of which have special needs.
Their web address is www.wemedia.com. So stay tuned for good things to come!

From:  David Koppenhaver:  I've been carrying out an ongoing search and would love to know what titles you come up
with.  The only one I know besides Sara's Surprise is Skallagrigg, which is not in print in the U.S.  It is a novel.  Central characters are boy with down syndrome and girl with CP.  She communicates with gestures, dysarthric speech, and other nonconventional means.  I bought my copy in England.  Penguin publishes.  Author is William Horwood.