The following is an account of major events and activities that took place in the year 2025 and over into 2026. Over and above these highlights, it is important to note that the members, mainly trainers of trainers, had numerous interactions with teachers, parents/caregivers, Disability service providers and persons who benefit from AAC as every …
SAAC-Kenya Highlights on the Year 2025 to June 2026 Major activities Read More »
The ability to participate in active interactive communication with peers and adults in educational settings is essential for a learner to succeed in school, (ASHA, 2005). Learners with Communication Disability remain cognitively disadvantaged as a result of their inability to engage in interactive communication for learning. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is an umbrella term that encompasses the …
This boy had a rough time with the police and members of the public on suspicion of intent to commit a felony. What aggravated the suspicion was the fact that he couldn’t express himself in any way. He has no functional speech and therefore could not explain who he was and where he came from. …
We Need Communication Passports for scenarios like these Read More »
Mark N. Watuku. Mr. Mark Watuku has been known to me since he was a child having been placed at my school of the Mentally Handicapped in Nakuru, Kenya. This placement followed an erroneous Educational assessment diagnosis. whereas Mental Handicap(intellectual Disability) refers to significant sub average general intellectual functioning that exists concurrently with deficits in …
SOME HIGHLIGHTS ON THE AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION SENSITIZATION SEMINARS HELD IN MARCH 2022. Participants: 40 teachers drawn from 10 Special schools across Kenya. 2 Officers of the National Council of Persons with Dsabilities 6 AAC experts attached to the SAAC-Kenya as facilitators 2 Representatives of the Seniors without Boarders of Denmark. The Kenya Institute …
