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If 10 years ago, you had asked me what AAC is, I would have thought it was yet another teaching acronym! After all, educators and therapists are well known for creating one too many acronyms! [...]

By Lauren McGinley People often ask me what I find the most challenging about being physically disabled and my answer is having a speech impairment. Relying on others and/or equipment to help me [...]

by Noah Callan | AAC and Technology Coordinator – Kids Plus Many of us love going to shopping centres to spend money on all kinds of things, some we need and others we just want.  But how [...]

Meet Noah Callan Noah is our newest team member at Kids Plus, taking on the role of AAC and Technology Coordinator in our team. We asked Noah to tell him a bit about himself!…. I have [...]

Lachie was 4 months of age when he started coming to Kids Plus. We spoke to Lachie’s mum, Kylie, about how Kids Plus and Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) has changed their [...]

My son Jesse is a delightful little 6 year old boy. He makes up our happy family of four, including his doting big sister who is 8 and not including our old cat who is a ratbag with a mind of his [...]

  By Jenna O’Brien (Senior Speech Pathologist – Kids Plus Foundation) and Eleanor Francis (Speech Pathologist, Therapy Consultant – Liberator). It seems hard to quantify just how [...]

Being a good communication partner becomes especially important when you are communicating with someone who uses Alternative and Augmentative communication (AAC) and when you are stuck at home [...]