Whether you use augmentative or alternative communication (AAC), love someone who does,
or teach or support an AAC user professionally —
you deserve actual helpful AAC support.
That means real resources, warm guidance,
and a community that gets it.

Approximately 5 million Americans and 97 million people worldwide may benefit from AAC (Beukelman & Light, 2020). But that number doesn't capture the millions more with cerebral palsy, autism, stroke, ALS, apraxia, and countless other conditions whose speech is not consistently clear enough to give them true autonomy. The real number? We don't actually know. And that's part of the problem.