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Campsie View School  21 Teachers  34 Support Staff  78 Pupils  Adam 3

High School Musical The Stars Nominated Oscar Winners  Mason Eadie Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy  Epilepsy  Cerebral Visual Impairment  Gastrostomy Fed   Ben Albrow Autism  Learning Difficulties  4

High School Musical  Holly Sorbie Cri Du Chat Syndrome  Learning Difficulties   Grant Hutchinson Cerebral Palsy  Hearing Impairment – Cochlear Implant  5

High School Musical  Lewis McKechnie Otohara Syndrome  Severe Learning Difficulties  Epilepsy  Gastrostomy Fed   Dylan Campbell Autism  Learning Difficulties  6

High School Musical  Lynsay MacPherson Severe Learning Difficulties  Language Delay   Fiona Kellie Learning Difficulties  Epilepsy  Visual Impairment  7

High School Musical  Cameron Gibson Cerebral Palsy (Dystonic Athetoid)  Epliepsy  Gastrostomy Fed   Morgan Taylor Aicardi Syndrome  Epilepsy  Gastrostomy Fed  8

High School Musical  Joshua Taylor Undiagnosed Neuro Muscular Disorder  (Probably Mitochondrial Cytopathy) 9

About Scotland  Scotland is part of the UK  Scotland is a small country – population approx 5,295,000, covering approx 78,000km²  About 70% of the population live in the “central belt”

Speech and Language Therapy in Scotland  Speech and Language Therapists are employed by the NHS  Speech and Language Therapists work with children in schools, in pre-schools, in children’s homes, clinics and hospitals  Speech and Language Therapists work with teachers, parents – and other professionals

What is AAC?  Augmentative and Alternative Communication : any method of communication used to supplement/ augment/support the more usual methods of speech and writing, when these are impaired. AAC can be used both to facilitate a means of expression and to aid comprehension.

AAC service delivery in Scotland  Most Speech and Language Therapists know about AAC – they know that there is a range of AAC options for children and adults  There are 5 main specialist AAC assessment services in Scotland

AAC Assessment Services  TASSC in Aberdeen  FACCT in Fife  Keycomm in Lothian  CALL Scotland in Edinburgh  SCTCI in Glasgow

How many people need AAC?  There is not much information available about this!  Approximately 0.5% of the total population may need AAC (low-tech and high-tech) – and 0.05% of the population need high-tech AAC http://www.communicationmatters.org.uk/sites/default/files/downlo ads/standards/AAC_Service_Specification_final_comm_champi on_oct_2011.pdf

AAC - internationally  The UK is part of an international organisation: ISAAC  www.isaac-online.org  The UK branch of ISAAC is Communication Matters  www.communicationmatters.org.uk

Communication Matters resources  Communication Matters have produced a lot of different resources – including leaflets  AAC Evidence base  http://www.aacknowledge.org.uk/

SCTCI  Based in Glasgow – and provide an assessment service to 10 of the 14 Health Boards  SCTCI staff are: – 2 speech and language therapists – 1 clinical technologist – 0.5 administrator  We work with children and adults

What does SCTCI do?  AAC assessment for children and adults – with the local team – in the child’s or adult’s local environment  Training in AAC for professionals and carers  Advice and information on AAC

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