alright we're going to talk about AAC but
what I wanted to let you know is
actually not going to hear me talk about
AAC which is all our augmentation and
alternative communication for
individuals with communication disorders
I found a neat link on YouTube which is
presented by the person by Jill Andrews here
was a speech-language pathologist and
who has spent an hour talking about
things in AAC is she's talking about why
we use AAC what is a see what population
AAC used with what are some of the
options and AAC devices for individuals
with communication disorders and where
this funding come from all of this so i
think it's it's a very brief overview on
what you really need to know at this
level what AAC is and what are some
options available. There will be a couple
of slides that I have added, but most of
it are the powerpoint slides is adapted
from her presentation.
but one thing that I want you to
pay attention through her lecture is
kind of go through and see she's got
some great information on all of this
but the devices that are so far
available for AAC uses a standard voice
source so really if it's talking it
feels like even a kid speaking it feels
like an adult is speaking because of the
standard voices used in most of the AAC
devices. So there is so groundbreaking
research on that end I'm going to post a
little clip from TED talks by this
researcher who is trying to find unique
voices of to match the voices of those
individual because if you think about it
voices identify who we
are
so if you didn't see me which obviously
you've never seen me in on in the
semester at all because nobody's come for
study sessions really not had anything
but you identify me by my voice is there
was somebody else not talking even like
that isn't doctor N, and somebody else is
delivering the lecture so we have a
unique voice ability that
identifies who we are, our pitch changes
are pitch inflections that we do our
fundamental frequency that we use
everything is unique to that individual
so this person this scientist who is
working on this speech scientists she is
trying to collect a bank of different
voices of different roles she wants you
to donate your voice
not everybody not ask me to do that I
want to kind of give you an idea to
donate the voice and then she's going to
try to get those voices but use the
ability of whatever voice that the
client has left because it's even though
they can communicate variable they have
some voices that matches close to their
voice and that is something that's
groundbreaking that's happening the
field of speech-language pathology so
I'm not going to sit here and lecture
right now this is all you're going to
get from me, but what I want you to do is
you have this powerpoint followed
through
listen to the lecture by Jill Andrus
on it and it's a youtube video i'm going
to post that link for you and then the
TED talk's link that shows what is the
groundbreaking research that is happening in
making AAC very individual specific, okay
this is the end of our semester I
enjoyed reading all of your discussion
post I think there was great discussions
on there and I see that a lot of people
have that passion to be speech-language
pathologist I want you to keep that
passion when you come into grad school
because that's the start that's the
spark don't miss that because when you
come to grad school just because you
accepted it doesn't mean anything has
changed you still at the bottom water we
see if language pathologist keep that
passion keep that that passion going we
even when you learned information in
class and come to class in grad school
wherever you're accepted would love to have
you all at ETSU unfortunately we
can't have everybody at ETSU but wherever
you are accepted go with the passion go
with the passion to be to wanting to
learn to make a difference in somebody's
life
ok so i'm glad i got to teach you I taught
I think most of you in three different
courses I look forward to seeing you
some of you in grad school this year
or the following year and good luck for
the future.