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  • Similar "Augmentative and Alternative Communication" tools can cost $4,000 to $7,000 dollars and run on computer-like devices rather than the iPad, says Mr. Niemeijer, chief executive and founder of AssistiveWare, a private company that specializes in technology that assists people with disabilities.

    Playing on a Tablet as Therapy Shalini Ramachandran 2011

  • Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices enable individuals with speech impairments and those who are non-verbal to communicate.

    Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2010 » April 2010

  • For example, the coming decade could see a vast expansion in Augmentative and Alternative Communication technology, an end to sub-minimum wage employment for people with disabilities, or a further expansion in Olmstead enforcement leading to even more states deciding to move away from the institutional model of service-provision.

    Seth Mnookin: Autism Roundtable: Cross-Disability Solidarity, Goals for the Future, and What it Means to "Fit in" Seth Mnookin 2012

  • For example, the coming decade could see a vast expansion in Augmentative and Alternative Communication technology, an end to sub-minimum wage employment for people with disabilities, or a further expansion in Olmstead enforcement leading to even more states deciding to move away from the institutional model of service-provision.

    Seth Mnookin: Autism Roundtable: Cross-Disability Solidarity, Goals for the Future, and What it Means to "Fit in" Seth Mnookin 2012

  • Lisa held the National Conference Program Chair of the U.S. Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, and made it possible for all of us to attend their conference on assistive technology in Florida when Jesse was nine.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • Lisa held the National Conference Program Chair of the U.S. Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, and made it possible for all of us to attend their conference on assistive technology in Florida when Jesse was nine.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • We repeat that the peculiarity of Augmentative and Diminutive terminations (with the exception of the Augment. _on_, which denotes only increase) is that besides the idea of increase or diminution a further disparaging or endearing meaning is implied although not

    Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

  • The Augmentative and Diminutive terminations have no determinate meaning: they are vague and indefinite and consequently when preciseness is required we must use the adjectives "grande," "pequeño," etc. (which can be employed conjointly with the terminations), as --

    Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

  • Besides Augmentative and Diminutive terminations, there are some terminations which, without indicating increase or decrease, are used to indicate disparagement pure and simple --

    Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

  • The Augmentative and Diminutive terminations (especially the latter) are found added to adjectives and, although more rarely, to other parts of speech also.

    Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

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