Partner-Augmented Input in the Classroom: Bringing Modeling to Your School Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) can be invaluable in allowing children with complex communication needs to express themselves at school. However, simply giving a student a communication board or device will not make him or her a communicator any more than giving a girl a piano makes her a musician or giving a boy a basketball makes him an athlete. Rather, to achieve communicative competency, students need instruction in the language of their AAC systems. An evidence-based strategy for teaching the language of AAC is partner-augmented input (PAI), which is […]
