Lately, I’m seeing more and more of my colleagues doing teletherapy.  For many speech-language pathologists, it is the ultimate solution fo...

I recently had a mom whose adult child is living in a group home ask me to provide some guidelines for staff to help them with using AAC. ...

Recently I was contacted by a local magazine who wanted to interview me as part of a series of local women to know. I was flattered, of cour...

Communicative competence was defined by Janice Light (1989) as: "– the state of being functionally adequate in daily communication ...

We all use acronyms way more than we’d probably like.  There are acronyms everywhere; television stations, directions, and, of course, in o...

Much has been made of using modeling to teach AAC use to children.  The term Aided Language Stimulation was first coined by Carol Goosens e...

This blog post is going o begin with one of those, “If I had a nickel for every time I heard….” lines.  Over and over parents and professio...

In an on-line discussion recently a speech-language pathologist was looking for research that specifically discussed why we do NOT move sym...

I’m talking some more today about narrative skills in students, including those who do not speak. I can’t stress enough the importance of d...