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[quote=Anonymous]For our mostly nonverbal 5 year old, we use both AAC and sign. As several PPs have said, it is TOTALLY INCORRECT that you need to wait until your son learns to type to use AAC. If an SLP told you that I would take everything they say with a grain of salt because they really don't know what they're talking about. Our son uses an iPad mini with the Speak for Yourself app, which is a great system that can be used by kids as young as 1 or 2 up to adults: http://www.speakforyourself.org/ For signing, we have the Signing Times DVDs for 3-8 year olds: https://store.signingtime.com/signing-time/#top I don't think there's any reason to pick one over the other necessarily. I will say that if your child may never have verbal speech, being able to use an AAC device will allow him to communicate with a lot more people than will sign, because not as many people know sign. Best of luck OP. It's great that you're exploring [/quote]
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