CommunicationFIRST and the The UCEDD at OHSU want to hear from you as a first step in their national plan for AAC peer support models.

If you are an AAC user, please consider completing this short survey to share your experience with peer support ➡️ bit.ly/49SxTKr

If you are an AAC-user, please take this anonymous, short, five-question survey about your experience with peer supports. We need as many responses as possible as we begin our grant about AAC peer supports project! #AAC

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AAC users, please consider sharing your experience with peer supports!
Take our 5-question survey here: forms.gle/oRBUQMu7c6XhiF…
With CommunicationFIRST, we have been awarded a contract from Association of University Centers on Disabilities to develop a national plan for #AAC peer support models. Let's get started together!

Good news about an issue CommunicationFIRST was deeply involved with from 2020 to 2022, at the beginning of the pandemic:

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Our proposal with the Oregon Health & Science University UCEDD to form a national consortium of AAC users and others to develop peer support models for people who need and use AAC has been accepted! #AAC aucd.org/template/news.…

FUUUUUCK

IN ER NOW

FEEDING TUBE RUPTURED

ABDOMEN TENDER & DISTENDED

CHECK IN PERSON COUGHING PERSISTENTLY WITH PAPER MASK ON

WAITING ROOM FULL

IT NEVER HAD TO BE LIKE THIS

DONT BOTHER ME, FAMILY, FRIENDS

'We need to include input, experiences, and insights from people affected by conditions like brain injury in the entire research process, including leadership positions that set the funding agenda, conference planning, and studies.'

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We need AAC users meaningfully employed within policy, tech, education, healthcare, and more.

Putting this thought into the world for 2024 and beyond!✨

Happy New Year! We are hiring a Director of Communications! Please see the job announcement here and share! communicationfirst.org/job-openings/

Please consider a tax-deductible, end-of-year donation to help us continue the fight for communication rights and for people who need and use #AAC ! We are grateful for anything you can give. communicationfirst.org/donate/
#BecauseCommunicationIsAHumanRight

The Census Bureau needs to start counting people who need and use #AAC
#BecauseCommunicationIsAHumanRight
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We can learn so much by listening!

I am chuffed to have made it into the Disability Power 100. Even more to be a to 10 finalist in the community advocate category. To be acknowledged as a top influencers in the UK is amazing. #AAC 1/3 #DemandTheChange #DisabilityPower100
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“Most people who need AAC — regardless of whether they have access to it — have no or meager access to websites, apps, digital content, or other information and communications technology.”
#AAC
#BecauseCommunicationIsAHumanRight
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“Flaws and biased ‘research’ conducted over the years and paid for with federal funds continue to be used to justify the unspoken indignities, mislabeling, abuse, and violence many of our members endure endlessly.” #AAC communicationfirst.org/federally-fund…

Recruitment for the AASPIRE Outcomes Project is Open Now! Be a part of our study where we see how outcomes (that matter most to autistic adults) change over time. We also hope to better understand what supports/services may help autistic adults thrive! aaspire.org/projects/outco…

All new guest essay for @disvisibility by Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

What Are You Looking At? Ableist Abuse in Public Spaces

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The FCC Needs to Address Digital Discrimination Against People Who Need AAC communicationfirst.org/the-fcc-needs-… via CommunicationFIRST #AAC #BecauseCommunicationIsAHumanRight #LISTEN