![]() I tend to get most of the “challenging patients” which means that I often get the patients who need AAC implemented, I think the patients and I tend to work well together as we are both autistic, and I just am constantly gathering intel about their sensory needs and sensitivities and following them to their “world?” (For lack of a better word, my brain is glitchy and chaotic right now as my meds wore off a few hours ago yay!) and like spinning, scripting, stimming, or squishing or whatever with them in ways that engage patients that are often considered “hard to engage”, but I love a patient finally having a means of communicating what I know they have receptively, but just aren’t using expressively, like I have an 8 year old who had minimal signs, and just recently (because I just got them maybe a month or two ago) has begun to use Proloquo2Go to communicate his wants, and needs, I have lots of available other vocab to him, but he’s so far motivated by a few things like spinning, ABC’s and some toys, so I have those there and common commenting phrases along with the core such in the default state that I’ll organize better soon! (I model so much when he lets me, he’s begun to verbal or auditory? stim with it too! Which I know because he has the items right easily within reach and he presses it multiple times even if I give him models of other options of preferred items/activities or needs), hopefully soon insurance will approve his need for this device at home! And I’ve had more kids using core boards, then AAC apps (usually verbally or Proloquo2Go). I’m the only other SLP besides my director, the other few of my coworkers are SLP-A’s with limited work experience and even less with AAC B. I work in a private practice serving primarily children, we have huge amount of patients who are autistic, and a fair amount who are not using verbal language functionally! I am considered the “AAC expert” currently, but that’s really because A. I have a lot to learn, but feel confident I can help others with my current experience! I am SO pumped to begin specializing in this. I start my position in a few weeks, and I will be getting to know a wider variety of programs and access methods. That light-bulb moment is what I chase after and seeing self advocacy emerge! I legit could do nothing but LOL and change activities when a young man looked at me and activated "boredom" using LAMP. I fell in love with the process of pairing a child up with a system and watching them gain access to language. Other than a terrible 7 month long stint in a SNF after I got done with graduate school, I've mostly worked with kids and young adults, the majority using AAC. Wanted to make a group where we can share knowledge with each other and nerd out. I created this sub because I do see a lot of questions around AAC over in the slp subreddit, but they tend to get lost in the wave of everything else. Hi everyone! I've been an SLP since 2016, but a couple of says ago I accepted an offer as an AAC consultant/assistive technology specialist.
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