CommunicationFIRST Program Associate Ren Koloni shares their experience in graduate school as a multiply disabled AAC user. Ren discusses access for our community and their research on ableism in medical settings.
At an Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services listening session, the plea of attendees was clear: don’t weaken oversight of equity in special ed. Learn ways to advocate and how OSERS has supported students like our Board Chair Jordyn Zimmerman.
In this guest blog, Glenda Watson Hyatt answers our questions about her recent master’s thesis on the employment (and discrimination) of people with speech disabilities, including those who use AAC.
Every student deserves to be safe at school. House and Senate leaders reintroduced the Keeping All Students Safe Act to protect students from seclusion and dangerous restraint in school. Learn how to help and learn about KASSA’s impact on our community.
We interviewed our own Dr. Lateef McLeod about his dissertation on peer mentorship between AAC users. He showed the importance of offering mentorship by us, for us, and co-created mentorship spaces accessible to people who use a variety of forms of AAC.
Earlier this week, Virginia adopted its first law expressly addressing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Read our summary and statement of the law here.
Twelve-year-old AAC user Leo True-Frost participates in virtual learning with his father, Jim True-Frost, supporting him. In November and December…
In response to multiple requests, we’ve prepared a resource to help our student members (US residents who cannot rely on…