MU Department of Communication Disorders AAC Service ProjectÂ
Graduate students from Marshall University’s Department of Communication Disorders celebrated
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month by serving the community. They modified battery-operated toys so they could be activated by children with a wide range of motor abilities. Under the instruction of Kelly Young, speech-language pathologist and assistant professor at Marshall University, the students learned a cost-effective method for adapting toys to support diverse motor and learning needs.
This marks the fifth year the department has celebrated AAC Awareness Month with a switch-adapted toy donation. This year, the graduate students were pleased to donate the toys to the special education classrooms at Burlington Elementary School in South Point, Ohio.