Welcome to the WI AAC Network summer newsletter by Mike Hipple. When I was a kid, we couldn’t get through a year without a terrible thing happened to our country. Between 9 11, the war in The Middle East, Virginia killing, political things, and many more events. You might think that keeping...
Welcome to the spring 2022 newsletter of WI AAC Network(by Mike Hipple; WI AAC Network founder; https://wisconsinaacnetwork.org) For WATRN this quarter we will be discussing students transitioning from school. I thought hey I should write about that topic for the newsletter. For most people in...
Welcome to the first quarter of 2022 Wisconsin AAC Network newsletter. As I am writing this opening message, I am at my mom’s parents’ house. I bet you loved going to your grandparents’ house when you were younger, because you never knew what you would bring back and what memories you would...
Welcome! Welcome to the Wisconsin AAC Network Fall 2021 newsletter and we wish you a happy AAC awareness month. In August the International Society of AAC conference was held online. I was worried that we might lose some of the magic of an international conference, but we didn’t and we ...
Welcome to Summer 2021 The first part of the newsletter I always write about something that is about AAC or education, but today I’m going to talk about family members, especially grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. We discuss all of the time about the importance of coaching...
Welcome and happy autism month. We have known for a long time there are many many people with autism who can benefit from using AAC. The percentage of children and adults who are AAC is getting bigger and bigger each year. Facebook has a group for adults who have autism and use...
Welcome to the Wisconsin AAC Network first quarter newsletter. We made it through the challenging year 2020. I can not tell you how thankful I am to be in the new year. Parents and educators we can not thank you enough for your hard work last spring and this fall educating your...
Hope you enjoyed AAC Awareness Month! Welcome to the fourth quarter newsletter for 2020. I am sorry this is late getting out but my October AAC Awareness month was so busy. Let’s talk about adulthood and AAC. Adulthood and having a complex communication need is a tough...
Welcome to Summer! Welcome to the 3rd quarter newsletter for WI AAC Network. As I am writing this the whole world is trying to get back to normal and understanding everyone’s communities. Together we will get through this and be more understanding of what different groups of people might be...
Welcome to Spring! Welcome to the 2nd quarter newsletter for WI AAC Network. We hope everyone is safe and healthy during this time. We certainly find ourselves in unusual circumstances. We have all had to manage thru being off of school for one to two snow days but did you ever...
Welcome to Winter! Welcome to our winter newsletter. Wow, can you believe it is 2020. There have been so many advancements in the area of AAC. I received my first communication device in 2001 and there were maybe two choices. They were both big, expensive speech dedicated devices. Speech generated...
Welcome to spring! Welcome to the spring newsletter! Let’s talk about family roles. I feel that families need to be what drives the bus because if you don’t have a good communication line with the family you will have a hard time. Each family looks different. ...
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