AAC in the IEP

“Does the student need assistive technology devices and/or services?” should be marked YES!

These following description should be added within the “Supplementary Aids and Services” section of the IEP: “High-tech, dynamic-display, voice-output device running robust communication software with access to: 60+ symbols per page-set, a full keyboard, 300+ high-frequency/core words, fringe vocabulary, pre-programmed messages, and word forms.”

These statements should be added within the accommodations section:

• • • • • The high-tech, dynamic-display, voice-output device will be available and accessible in all school settings and at all times.

        • At no point will the high-tech, dynamic-display, voice-output device be withheld.

        • No hand-over-hand or prompting will be used as a means of teaching use of the high-tech, dynamic-display, voice-output device. 

        • Aided language input/modeling will be used to show ways they could communicate without the expectation of imitation or response.

        • All forms of communication (e.g., gestures, approximations, symbolic communication, facial expressions, whole body movement, etc.) will be validated and accepted. 

        • If and when STUDENT rejects modeling via their high-tech, dynamic-display, voice-output device, other forms of AAC will be used to model (e.g., different high-tech device, light-tech copy of STUDENT’s vocabulary).