#aac ideas

[actuallyaj]

Today I wanted to share just a little bit of my AAC device. I use the app called coughdrop on my Amazon kids tablet. I have basic communication boards like the ones shown including my home board. Something cool I recently added was a visual support section with coping skill graphics and reminders for myself while waiting, talking and taking turns in conversation, and much more.

[sniffanimal]

fantasy AAC (augmentative and alternative communication). a book with words and pictures on the pages that, when tapped with it's matching planchette, produce the word in the caster's True Voice. small stones that when gestured with produce colored sparks, one in each hand used to indicate yes and no. a chalk slate that words and pictures drawn on it float up off it and hover in the air for a moment before dissipating, like captions or thought bubbles. a little more abstractly: a set of scrying dice that when rolled by the user, land face-up on pictograms that could be interpreted to mean the users statement they intended (For example, if the user wished to say 'i want to leave' the dice rolled may indicate I, Desire, Journey, Negative Emotion).

[schar-aac]

"ideas of reference"

Image: An emoji yellow person with a red square on their chest is next to a blue rectangle, and has a thought bubble coming from their head showing a blue rectangle with an emoji yellow person with a red square on their chest in it.

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thank you @petrichoremojis for excellent delusion symbols, used to help work out how draw this

[perplexingluciddreams]

I have a whole list of things I want to write about. Always I feel like I am only just keeping on top of basic body needs, plus the constant dysregulation. I am constantly brain overfull, no capacity left. And with every skill I lose, it gets harder.

I also have a list of edits I want to make to new AAC (mainly words I want to add, but a few notes on how to rearrange). It takes a lot of energy to make edits on this AAC, the settings are complicated and new. And physically takes strength to lift arms a lot, and fine motor control to tap tiny tiny places on screen.

I hope for more days where I have more brain space and more calm and more can control body. So I can write more things I want to write. And make edits on AAC so I can use it more to help write!

And hope for feel less dysregulated so I can properly rest my body when it is tired and sore, not just swing swing swing, to try and stay closest to calm as possible.

AAC can be so helpful for words and writing, but only if it works right for me. There is so many aspects that go into making AAC work for me, it is hard to make it fit perfectly. But I am working on it slowly.

Supercore 50 is already closest fit to perfect that I find so far (out of all options that I know about)! And I currently work on WordPower 100 to make visually better - I want to learn it for with keyguard. I really really try.

I just have so much in my head is abstract and fragments and cannot get out with words. Frustrating. I want to write!!!

[kittentism]

does anyone know cute AAC related pin ? and where able get them ? before kitty used look at etsy but it been going downhill been told qwq

[cryptid-aac]

Can 👉👈 someone give me name ideas for our AAC device? Found out I am very objectum for them xhdhhhx

[frog-sorta-speaks]

Accommodations shouldn’t only be respected when you’re on good terms with the person. I mostly text to communicate, and my parents are fine with it. Until I’m in trouble, which happens to be one of the times I find talking hardest.

Just because you are mad at someone doesn’t take away their deserving of respect- it tells them, and others you care about in their same position- that your support is conditional. That the second they do something that upsets you that support and respect is gone.

If you dislike someone, no matter the reason, that Never gives you the right to be ableist (or any other kind of bigoted) towards them.

[taffetathedoll]

flip phones and low tech - blogpost x rant

In a world where i dream of a flip phone once again, and a simpler less distracting life, simple because it is designed smoothly, and has little features, am i reaching for overconsumption in the hope of long term underconsumption, happiness, meditation, and clarity?

I want a flip phone, but then I would need a music player, a new car navigation, pedometer, and a laptop. And if i want to keep things even simpler possibly keeping an iPad to serve its own purpose.

But with this overconsumption, does simplicity and happiness actually outweigh that? And with less screen time and lessened ability to look at what one can buy, will we buy less fruitless objects in the long run? We will be spending more time in the real world of course.

And even though people have come to the agreement it is impossible to live without a smartphone, I did until November 2022. Life was harder at times, of course, but what if i did abandon these modern ways, slowly, without buying other things to test the limits of my abilities, start looking at paper maps maybe, only allow myself to use my phone for music, text, and call. Mount a gps in my car, and only use it when necessary. When i can, use a paper map of my town, and have a few on hand of cities near by. Would that be possible? Would it make traveling to other states, exploring new states, solo travel altogether horrible because there’s so much else to worry about? And leaving the country, basically impossible.

But if one was to do this, one of the intentions must be with being more aware and appreciative of our experiences especially new ones, so solo travel must then be more exhilarating with ur low tech lifestyle. But at the same time, less spontaneous, unless u carry the car gps in ur bag, and possibly even then, u can not just go to some new place it requires more forethought and planning, unless u know trusted people u may be with.

My personal dilemma may be everything is far too complicated, i wish for it all to be very simple, not just aesthetically, but functionally, i wish things to do less. But is that cause I wish to over consume? Or i actually want to connect with everything deeper and more meaningfully? I adore music and the aesthetics, and have a hatred for music streaming, so i have been planning to get a modded ipod, but then u still have to have some sort of app to listen to a new podcast episode on, so intern, because u theoretically switched ur iPhone to a flip phone, u must have to use ur iPad/laptop for another use, making it less simple already and defeating the purpose.

And is all of this just fruitless in general? Is the real answer getting rid of most of ur belongings, livening in perfect minimalism, and being as precisely organized as a brain surgeon? But that, is actually more of a commitment then getting new things, that u can simply stop using if u so choose and take ur iphone out of whatever drawer it sat dormant in the mean time. Is this an overall frustration with society, myself, or something more deep-seated? Or is it actually simple, and its the rust of memory making me long for my childhood? And even if it seems i want less, im left curious if i actually want more.

[give-me-aac-imagery]

applesauce container

(source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inertia_demonstration_applesauce.gif)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also a special shoutout for real like wendy epic ableism moments when she stops talking directly to winston and expresses this is b/c he communicates too incorrectly (here too literally or whatever, once again whether he misinterpreted her or she misinterpreted him, it's put on him) and thus he doesn't deserve that

[noisycowboyglitter]

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[valengory1234]

Doing some research and found that even though I can fiddle with different voices for the aac app on my phone it’s odd to hear it and not have it match my own

[sniffanimal]

I'm obsessed with this Instagram account called parrot kindergarten where a woman is teaching her cockatoos to use an AAC app on their iPad and these birds are so fuxking funny. they video call their grandma 20 times in a row to complain the lamp in the room is off. they get existential about death. I love birds and how chaotic they are

[wheelie-sick]

this but with the exception that ASL is a preferred language not a preferred AAC.

I love Deaf autistics

I love Deaf autistics who don't know their speaking ability because they were raised signing and without oral speech

I love Deaf autistics who do know they are nonspeaking because their lack of speech extended to signed language

I love Deaf autistics who are forced to use AAC in English because signed language is inaccessible to them

I love d/Deaf autistics who feel alienated from the hearing autistic community

I love Deaf autistics whose autistic traits make their signing hard to understand

I love Deaf autistics

[spooksforsammy]

Everyone love autism until the person needs someone to remind them or help do things like bathe, change clothes, and use the bathroom.

Everyone love autism until they need to be told what to do in social interactions and still can’t do it correctly.

Everyone love autism until they can’t communicate in the way you deem appropriate. Until they need other ways to communicate because they can’t verbally do it. They love autism until they can’t communicate even if they have aac. until they have NO (no) ways to communicate because they don’t understand they can.

Everyone loves autism until they can’t sit down and stop moving. Until they grunt or moan or make random sounds. Love until moves around and not even realize that their moving.

Everyone loves the idea of autism until it’s not level one low support needs. And not fair that high support needs, medium support needs, level 3, level 2 autistics get so much hate for things can’t help. They should still be loved!

[hellsitegenetics]

So tumblr user demoncatapology's ask about praying to whatever silly critter got assigned to them is such a delightful idea. Dear Hellsitegenetics, may I also be assigned a little critter to help me through finals season please?

It is very much kicking my ass right now. Thank you in advance!

String identified: t catag' a at ag t at ctt gt ag t t c a gt a. a tgtc, a a ag a tt ctt t tg a a a? t c cg a gt . Ta aac!

Closest match: Dendronephthya gigantea dynein heavy chain 1, axonemal-like (LOC114531818), mRNA Common name: Cherry Blossom Coral

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