{"id":4715,"date":"2021-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2021-09-30T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:57:51","slug":"amplifying-aac-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4715","title":{"rendered":"Amplifying AAC Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">The United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (USSAAC) has launched a new campaign called &#8220;Amplifying AAC Voices,&#8221; designed to provide people who rely on AAC more opportunities to be heard. The initial initiative involves the creation of an online \u201cAAC Speakers Connection,&#8221; a web portal that facilitates the matchmaking between AAC speakers and those that wish to engage them as paid speakers for a wide variety of purposes.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">If you or someone you know use AAC and enjoy public speaking, consider joining USSAAC&#8217;s AAC Speaker Connection! Sign up at <a href=\"https:\/\/speaker.ussaac.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/speaker.ussaac.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633012203640000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG19woVnVcPmhiPn4izst-4w8IIng\">https:\/\/speaker.ussaac.org\/<\/a><wbr>&nbsp; You can use this site to <em>find<\/em> a speaker as well.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">You can also participate in USSAAC&#8217;s first fundraiser to support and maintain the portal: a Virtual Auction taking place from October 1-15, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silentauctionpro.com\/bidonlinegrid.php?groupId=1860\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to take a sneak peek at the items collected for the auction so far!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4715\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (USSAAC) has launched a new campaign called &#8220;Amplifying AAC Voices,&#8221; designed to provide people who rely on AAC more opportunities to be heard. The initial initiative involves the creation of an online \u201cAAC Speakers Connection,&#8221; a web portal that facilitates the matchmaking between AAC speakers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4716,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}