How does Laura Weinberg CCC-SLP LLC work with AAC or non-verbal clients?
Non-speaking and non-verbal clients are a focus of Laura Weinberg and her family.
Each client deserves dignity, with attention to their physical abilities, preferences, and strengths. We explore what they want to communicate and how, not imposing our wants, and giving them reasons to tell us, with their voice.
Ask us about therapy, assessments, Total Communication, new electronic AAC, intermittent AAC, aphasia, apraxia, CP, ataxia, apraxia, profound autism, or anything you’ve heard about.
No, AAC will not keep someone who can use “mouth words” from speaking.
Will AAC delay speech or keep someone from talking?
Research shows that children can use AAC and later develop speech. Your mouth is portable and doesn’t require batteries, but you still use AAC. You email someone who isn’t in the room, wave down the block, or walk up to them if they aren’t paying attention. You gesture with your hands, point, talk, and share photos, and probably spell to communicate every day by text.
Will Laura Weinberg evaluate for a “talker,” AAC, or SGD?
Yes, Laura Weinberg will support you through assessment, selection and insurance or school for AAC, or Speech Generation Device (SGD).
It’s not too early; Laura helped a family advocate for a 1 ½ year old with cleft palate and apraxia. For her own son, getting replacement AAC through Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance took years.
Parents and teachers want to see people use their devices, and Laura has experience with practical and motivating uses. It isn’t a doorstop.