AAC Sellers Market Cards in Ethiopia

Dr. Cate Crowley and several students from Teachers College, Columbia University traveled to Ethiopia to visit the Ethiopian National Association for Intellectual Disabilities (ENAID).

(Amharic) Amharic Book Illustrations

(Amharic) Amharic Book Illustrations

Below are the beautiful illustrations by Tina Yeung for our Amharic cleft palate books written by Alem Esheu Beyene. Each book elicits practice with a specific set of target phonemes for post-surgery cleft palate therapy. Ethiopian Amharic Cleft Palate Book Team...

Vocational Training in Ghana- AAC Strategies

This video describes the steps needed for bags that children in Ghana with intellectual disabilities and autism create: from buying the needed materials; creating patterns; cutting, ironing, and sewing; stamping the bags to identify where the bags were made; and tagging the bags so the student who created the bag and the teacher who gave support are identified.

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Approaches Pamphlet

This pamphlet offers several augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies that have been adapted for people with communication disabilities in Ghana, and have been implemented successfully there and in other countries in Africa to facilitate their participation at home, in school and in the community.

Ghana January 2014: Continuing to learn at Korle Bu Hospital

Today was an exciting day! We headed to Korle Bu Hospital bright and early and immediately started seeing patients. We saw many new and some old faces as some of our previous patients came back for a second or even third day of therapy. Throughout the day we continued...