October is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month. Braylee uses one of these devices/apps to help communicate with her parents and others that she comes into contact with. Here are some companies that have a discount on their apps or devices as of today 10/14.

Discover Tobiidynavox Learning Hub and grow your knowledge and skills at your own pace - whether you’re a parent, caregiver, clinician, educator or augmented communicator yourself. Many of our resources also offer the option to earn ASHA CEUs (continuing education units).

Speech Cube is a monthly subscription box that sends you themed activities for you and your child. Designed for Pediatric Speech Language Pathologists, but can be used by the whole family

Many university programs in speech-language pathology that offer clinical training as part of their graduate training transitioned to a telepractice service delivery model in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to survey speech-language pathology graduate student clinicians on their knowledge of and comfortability with telepractice before and after participation in a telepractice training program.

Dr. Shameka Stanford, PhD, CCC-SLP/L, is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Howard University. She specializes in Juvenile Forensic Speech-Language Pathology and the impact/confluence of cognitive and communicative disorders (CCD) on academic success and status offense charges in youth placed at-risk for delinquency. Her training addresses the knowledge and awareness of CCD and its impact on academic success and the school-to-confinement pipeline.

Losing your ability to communicative verbally,whethere through an accident or stroke or living with the barriers to expressing yourself due to developmental disorders can be viewed by obstacles to personal progress ande quality of life

As New Brunswick's education and health departments continue to deflect responsibility for re-imposing masks in schools, the province's chief medical officer of health made note of a seemingly high percentage of preschoolers with communication issues.