Augmentative/Alternative Communication iPads (Oak Park)

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Program Outline

Program Information Provided By: Shelley Harris, (Oak Park Public Library)

What is AAC? (AssistiveWare)

Circulating iPads loaded with the top six augmentative/alternative communication apps:

  • Grid
  • TouchChat
  • TD Snap, Proloquo2Go
  • Proloquo
  • Proloquo Coach
  • LAMP Words for Life

Partnerships with Organizations outside the Library

I worked with a local speech therapy clinic to identify the communication apps that they used the most with their clients.

In-Library Collaborations

Material services, tech services, and circulation were the main collaborators. Materials had to help set the loan rules and approve circulating such an expensive item. Tech services was in charge of buying and loading the apps. Circulation is in charge of holds, and we worked with them for the best workflow: ipads on shelf would be in the Kids workroom, ipads on hold would be with the other on hold tech items we circulate in the circ closet.

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