High-tech vs Low-tech AAC

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Kicking off AAC Awareness month with some differences between high tech and low tech AAC!

While it is always a good idea to have low tech available as a backup, remember there is NO prerequisite for high tech (and robust!) AAC systems, meaning kids shouldn't start with PECs (which only focuses on requesting) or have to 'prove' that they are ready for a more complex communication system.

​Just like speaking children hear and learn from a complex adult language system, we need to provide the same models and access to children who are non- or minimally- speaking through THEIR modality. 

by Halle Demchuk, SLP

Paediatric SLP | GLP-Trained Clinician | Owner of HAEPI SLP