Chapter 1: What is AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication)?

• Why use AAC? 
• What Does AAC Include? 
• Access Methods
• The AAC Team

Chapter 2: Assessment

• Who might benefit from AAC? 
• Cause and effect skills
• Social Communication Skills
• Symbolic Understanding
• Understanding of Spoken Language
• The expressive-receptive gap
• Visual SkillsAccess Method
• Tools for Assessment
• AAC Profile and Action Plan
• Definition of Communicative Competence for AAC users  (Janice Light, 1989) 
• Social Networks (Sarah Blackstone and Mary Hunt Berg, 2003) 
• Means, Reasons and Opportunities (Della Money and Sue Thurman, 1994) 

Chapter 3: Unaided Communication

• What is Unaided Communication?
• Assessing Unaided Methods of Communication
• Observation Schedule for assessing Unaided Communication Methods
• Developing Unaided Communication Skills

Chapter 4: Low Tech Communication Aids

• Types of Low Tech AAC systems
• Aspects of Assessment for Low Tech AAC
• Access
• Vocabulary/Language
• Social Use
• Design Issues
• The Next Step – Activities to support and develop use of the Low Tech AAC system
• Cause and effect with people (Communicative Intent) 
• Requesting item/indicating choice
• Participation in a social activity
• General Conversation

Chapter 5: High Tech Communication aids

• Types of High Tech Communication Systems
• Assessment for a High Tech System
• Access
• Vocabulary/Language
• Social Use
• Design Issues
• The Next Step - Activities to support and develop use of the High Tech AAC system
• Linguistic Skills
• Social Skills