Supports & Considerations for Multilingual AAC Users
15 June 2023
via Zoom courtesy of RCSLT
10.00 Welcome and Housekeeping
10:10 What Does Voice Output AAC Offer Bilingual Symbol-based Communicators? Ruth Bettany, Assistive Technology Clinical Specialist, Barnsley Assistive Technology Team
11:15 Break
11:25 Dr Sean Pert, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Speech and Language Therapy, The University of Manchester
11:40 Abdur - an AAC User’s Experience
11:45 Experience of Working with Clients who are Multilingual - Examples & Lessons Learnt Katherine Small, Senior AAC Consultant, Ace Centre
12:30 Supplier Sessions: Features to support bilingual AAC users: Jabbla, Therapy Box, Tobii Dynavox, Liberator
1:00 Lunch and Breakout Rooms for Supplier Q&A
1:45 State of Play - Languages with Text to Speech Technology in AAC: Will Wade, Research and Development Manager & Gavin Henderson, Software Engineer, Ace Centre
2:30 AAC SIG AGM
2:45 Communication Matters Conference Draw
3:00 Wrap up