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Blogs with tag Advocacy

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AAC users deserve more than crumbs
This is a transcript of Dr. Alyssa Hillary Zisk's keynote, delivered at ISAAC’s Virtual Conference 2025 Opening Ceremonies.
14 minute read
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You are not broken
Even as we have shifted from the idea of autism awareness to focus on autism acceptance, many of the campaigns out there have focused on how those around autistic people can learn to accept their autism.
3 minute read
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Speaking and AAC use - ability, capability, and capacity
This article explores the subtle difference between ability, capability, and capacity. How to distinguish them, and how they act as a foundation for identifying and resolving barriers to communication.
6 minute read
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Nonspeaking people have more to say
For AAC Awareness Month 2025, we are revisiting #MoretoSay, a campaign that challenges assumptions about people who cannot speak. Assumptions that they have no opinions or anything to add to a conversation. Pam Harris, an AAC expert and Josh’s mom, found that her son had more to say.
2 minute read
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Modeling Autistic Pride
Teaching autistic children Pride is like teaching them to use AAC. You have to model pride for them and put them in the right environment.
3 minute read
Autism Acceptance Month 2022 - hands supporting the autism infinity symbol
6 ways to become an autism ally
As an autistic person, Autism Acceptance Month can be rocky. It is thirty days of striving to be heard over the voices of non-autistic people. This year, we at AssistiveWare want to focus on how you can be a better ally to autistic people.
4 minute read
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AAC users need vocabulary to talk about sex, sexuality, and body parts
At AssistiveWare, we want to make sure that AAC users can say anything, anywhere, at any time. Following this mission, Proloquo2Go 7.7 includes symbols and vocabulary for body parts, sexuality, and intimacy. In this blog post, Donnie TC Denome explains why this vocabulary is essential for all AAC users of all ages to have access to.
5 minute read
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#OneDayForUkraine
The AssistiveWare team is donating one day of our revenue to support Ukraine. Join our #OneDayForUkraine campaign to make a difference and donate one day of your income too!
2 minute read
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AAC Awareness Month 2021: Presume competence, always
At AssistiveWare, we make Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) apps. Still, there is far more to AAC than downloading an app to an iPad or printing out a communication board and sticking it to the wall. That’s why this AAC Awareness Month, we want to focus on one of the guiding principles of AAC - presuming competence.
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