AAC Intervention

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According to Light and McNaughton (2012), AAC intervention is considered the the last resort as a form of therapy and is typically implemented after years of traditional speech therapy. There have been many changes to AAC since it first became available. The changes to ACC include: the population that uses AAC, the change in the scope of communication needs, the different types of AAC available, and the changes in expectations by individuals who use it. In the past, only a small amount of AAC manufacturers developed, produced, and supported a small amount of AAC speech generating devices. Since then, there has been an explosion of with mobile technologies, including tablets and iPads. Since the advance in the mobile technologies,

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