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• Q&A on augmentative communication methods Impaired speech may be replaced or augmented by gesture and body language, hand signs, spelling, and specially developed communication aids. These strategies may all be described as augmentative communication, or AAC (which stands for Augmentative and Alternative Communication—‘augmentative’ communication is added on to speech, ‘alternative’ is used instead of speech).



• TASH



• Facilitated Communication Institute



• Autism National Committee



• S.A.B.E. – Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered



• National Joint Committee for the Communication Needs of Persons With Severe Disabilities. Position Statement on Access to Communication Services and Supports: Concerns Regarding the Application of Restrictive "Eligibility" Policies.



• DEAL Communication Centre provides services to people who are unable to talk, or to talk clearly, as a result of conditions such as cerebral palsy, strokes, acquired brain damage, autism, Down syndrome, or intellectual impairment - anyone whose speech is not clear enough, fluent enough or reliable enough to allow them to get across everything they want to say. Rosemary Crossley, A.M., Ph.D. is the Director of the DEAL Communication Centre.