CCATT Center

05/19/2025

Children may benefit from augmentive and alternative communication (AAC) if they have communication disorders or medical diagnoses that make it difficult to be understood by their family, caregivers and peers. AAC can be used at any age, even during the infant and toddler years.​

03/20/2025

Need to write goals for your AAC user? Make sure you are thinking about all five of the AAC competencies and how you can help your student improve across the full range!

08/27/2024

Yes. This. 👍

At the beginning of the school year it can be tempting to print out “core boards” and sprinkle them like confetti around classrooms/ the school. New students are coming in with no communication system and it can be tempting to hand them out, Oprah-style - “you get a core board, and you get a core board,” and so on. While they are a useful support and a helpful place to start when you don’t have immediate access to something robust, they are not a robust AAC system. They often lack developmentally appropriate and motivating vocabulary and intrinsically lack voice output - a highly motivating feature in an AAC device.

I also see too many district Assistive Technology teams using core boards as a pre-requisite to obtaining robust AAC. No student should HAVE to use a core board for a variety of communicative functions while combining words before they are granted access to a trial of a high tech robust AAC system. AT teams need to DO BETTER. SLPs in these districts need to start advocating for EBP practices around AAC and start demanding that their students get access to high tech, ROBUST AAC systems.

07/10/2024

** Important ** Latest news for PRC-Saltillo app users (TouchChat and LAMP) - removing support for iOS 14 (click below for more info)

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05/22/2024

We are looking for a Speech-Language Pathologist with a passion for AAC and Assistive Technology to join our team!

05/12/2024

Take every student to new heights in their literacy learning including students with complex needs with evidence-based literacy instruction from Building Wings.

05/01/2024

Check out www.marykatherinedally.com and download her free manual that shoes you how to create switch adapted toys!!! Great resource!!!

04/18/2024

UPDATE 4/19/24, 11:19 a.m. ET

On Thursday, April 18, 2024 an issue was detected that is currently preventing the Empower® software from loading on Accent® devices. Our team quickly identified the issue and has worked diligently to resolve it so that our customers’ voices can be restored. Please check out our blog https://www.prc-saltillo.com/articles/empower-notice... for UPDATED and detailed information on how to fix your device. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

04/17/2024

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Today is National Assistive Technology Awareness Day!!

https://ataporg.org/policy-and-advocacy/national-at-awareness-day/

04/10/2024

Thanks to Lauren Enders Gonzales, MA, CCC - SLP for sharing out this resource from CALL Scotland!

New on the CALL blog, an infographic poster to download and a discussion on the Who, What, and Why of Assistive Technologies and Digital Learning:

https://www.callscotland.org.uk/blog/looking-for-a-new-resource-to-support-learners-with-asn/

03/26/2024

Lauren Enders Gonzales, MA, CCC - SLP has published her infographic on all the apps that will be one sale over the next several weeks!!! Thank you, Lauren!!!

Thanks for waiting!! Check out this list of HUGE AAC and Special Education app and product deals. Mark your calendars carefully!

UPDATE 03/28/24: For a screenreader-friendly document providing all sale details and information, use https://bit.ly/AllTextSpringAACAppSales24

For a PDF with clickable links to websites, the U.S. App Store, and the U.S. Google Play Store, use https://bit.ly/SpringAACAppSales24

I’m not able to answer individual requests for app recommendations. There are no more hours in the day. 😩