The Ecological Inventory to Access Vocabulary and Participation is an assessment tool with a guided example and fill-in sections to evaluate your own student. It helps identify functional vocabulary, communication modalities, participation expectations, unmet communication needs, and discrepancies across everyday environments to inform individualized AAC planning and support meaningful engagement.

El Inventario Ecológico para Acceder al Vocabulario y la Participación es una herramienta de evaluación que incluye un ejemplo guía y espacios designados para que usted pueda evaluar a su propio estudiante. Permite identificar vocabulario funcional y significativo, así como oportunidades de participación dentro de los entornos y rutinas cotidianas. Este recurso apoya la planificación individualizada de CAA al facilitar la selección de palabras y apoyos de comunicación relevantes para promover el acceso, la participación y la autonomía comunicativa.

A checklist design to guide ongoing AAC reassessment It helps educators, families, teams etc., monitor changes, identify new needs, and ensure the AAC system continues to match the individual’s abilities, environments, and goals.

Initially, AAC implementation progress may appear subtle; sometimes the signs are unconventional, or we might not be observing closely enough. Here is a Checklist with several signs in attention, social engagement, operational skills, among others, not to miss!

This is a list of 75 AAC Terms in English and Spanish—a quick guide for translations in IEP meetings and a guide for interpreters/translators.

Esta es una lista de 75 términos de CAA en inglés y español. Una guía rápida para traducciones en las reuniones del IEP y una guía para intérpretes/traductores.

This communication board helps children understand immigration-related vocabulary. Featuring 35 visual icons, it’s perfect for educators, therapists, and families supporting language development, inclusion, and emotional understanding.

AAC INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

FOR A FAMILY-CENTERED APPROACH

These questions serve to guide and prepare for AAC assessment and intervention planning. The Download includes 10 questions in English and Spanish.

This mapping tool can serve the IEP team identify a student’s daily classroom activities (i.e., arrival, circle time, reading, recess, lunchtime, show and tell, etc.) along with the identified communication strategies that will be provided to the student during the classroom activity.

Fillable PDF chart to help define the roles and responsibilities of the AAC team.

Free Digital download: English and Spanish

This schedule aims to highlight the following:

1. Modeling is an essential strategy for teaching and learning AAC.

2. Modeling is most effective when we do it at every chance and in different environments. It should be natural how we talk with our vocal speech.

3. When selecting vocabulary/targets to model, we should focus beyond only requesting. For example, we can comment, describe, label, etc.

4. When selecting vocabulary or phrases to model, we want to use a variety of nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, quantifiers, etc. and make sure we are modeling those in different contexts.

Communication Board with Christmas Vocabulary in Spanish/English. Perfect for holiday activities.