Kate and Tim from Radiowaves came to film our group FaCE at Chilton Community College. They are filming one Shine reporter from each region. FaCE stands for Facilitating Communication Everywhere. We do Art & Multimedia projects about language and AAC.
Here is me interviewing Andrew about his talent for Shine Week:
Monday, 6 July 2009
19-21 June: 1 Voice Teenage Project: Moving On Up
1 Voice Teenage Project 'Moving On Up' was at the Hayes Conference Centre, Derby 19-21 June.
We were given an outline of the workshops so we could programme our communication aids before the weekend with introductions, special interests, who we like talking to, who our role models are, and the different ways role models can tell people about AAC.
We talked about reasons for using communication aids with different people in different places, and made a collage with photos we brought with us and some we took on the day.
I interviewed the speech therapy students to find out what they had learnt about about AAC after volunteering on a 1 Voice weekend.
On Sunday we gave talks and practiced the presentations we will be giving at the Communication Matters conference in September. Nadia tells us the history of 1 Voice:
Watch more 1 Voice movies on YouTube. Our YouTube username is 1voicemovies.
1 Voice is a group of children and young people who use communication aids and their families, friends, role models and volunteers.
Some of us have been coming to 1 Voice events for 10 years now and we graduated as AAC Role Models at the weekend.
We were given an outline of the workshops so we could programme our communication aids before the weekend with introductions, special interests, who we like talking to, who our role models are, and the different ways role models can tell people about AAC.
We talked about reasons for using communication aids with different people in different places, and made a collage with photos we brought with us and some we took on the day.
I interviewed the speech therapy students to find out what they had learnt about about AAC after volunteering on a 1 Voice weekend.
On Sunday we gave talks and practiced the presentations we will be giving at the Communication Matters conference in September. Nadia tells us the history of 1 Voice:
Watch more 1 Voice movies on YouTube. Our YouTube username is 1voicemovies.
1 Voice is a group of children and young people who use communication aids and their families, friends, role models and volunteers.
Some of us have been coming to 1 Voice events for 10 years now and we graduated as AAC Role Models at the weekend.
Sunday, 31 May 2009
31 May 09: Samuel Sennott's Web
Today Sam posted a link to Caroline Musselwhite's videos on YouTube. I met Caroline, and Sam, at the ISAAC Conference in Montreal last August, and I was at Caroline's Literacy Study Day in Dunfermline 11 May.
If only our teachers and speech therapists would learn from AAC specialists like Caroline!
Sam's site: http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/
Movies from Caroline on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CMusselwhite
If only our teachers and speech therapists would learn from AAC specialists like Caroline!
Sam's site: http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/
Movies from Caroline on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CMusselwhite
AAC Awareness 2009: Many Methods, One Goal: To Communicate
ISAAC is celebrating its third International AAC Awareness Month in October 2009.
This year's theme is Many Methods, One Goal: To Communicate.
People from all over the world who use alternative communication will be sharing photos, videos, slideshows and stories to show us the different methods they use.
The closing date is 15 September if you would like to send something in.
For more info visit http://www.aacawareness.org/
Email info@aacawareness.org with any questions.
Submit your work to contest@aacawareness.org
ISAAC - International Society for Augmentative & Alternative Communication http://www.isaac-online.org/
Sunday, 17 May 2009
7-10 May: Silence is the Loudest Voice
'Silence is the Loudest Voice' - AAC Photographic Exhibition by Dawn Davies, Discovery Centre, Bishop Auckland.
Dawn invited us to share her space at the exhibition. We took along our stories and artwork from 'Many Stories, One Voice', our Word Wall, communication book, PowerPoint voice output communication aid, and some DVDs from 1 Voice and Communication Matters.
Dawn's project was to meet families around County Durham who have children with communication impairments. Her aim was to find out how many of the chidlren have a communication aid, and if local professionals (teachers, speech therapists, doctors) were telling the families about AAC.
They are not, but they should be, and we hope Dawn's project and our AAC work will raise awareness of what is available and that these children do have a right to a voice.
1-3 May: Headlines Weekend
A great time together with friends I only see once a year, altho last year we met up again in July for climbing, caving and abseiling, and we're doing it again this July - looking forward. Always enjoy the Holiday Inn. It's good for a swim and TenPin bowling and LaserQuest nearby.
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