Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Giving Students with Complex Access Needs a Voice

Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Assistive Technology

(upbeat music) - For many students with complex access needs their main and most comfortable means of communication is not using spoken language. So they will need some augmented way, or alternative way, of communicating their thoughts, their emotions, their wants, to ask questions. In other words, to fulfill all those sort of communicative functions.

In this video, Cheryl Jorgensen, an expert on inclusion for students with the most complex access needs, discusses giving students a voice with AAC. This video aligns with the Rubric of Effective Practices Quality Indicator V: Social Communication.

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