We are running a TechTalkers® workshop. The program is designed to build your skills and confidence using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) with the person that you support, to help them achieve their communication potential. The program is informative, interactive and a chance to meet others who support AAC communicators. You will be equipped with research based strategies that you can do during your everyday activities. The TechTalkers® program was created in 2016 by highly experienced, Rocky Bay speech pathologists and has had amazing results and feedback from participants. 

Who is it for? 

• Parents and carers who want to learn how to better support their child to use their AAC  
• Other people in the person’s life who use AAC with the person (e.g. other family members, support workers)  
• The person you support must already have an AAC system such as high tech AAC (e.g. ipad with communication software or dedicated AAC device) or a low tech system (e.g. PODD book, PECS, communication board)  
• The information is useful regardless of the age of the person using the AAC system (e.g. adult or child) and is not specific to any particular type of AAC system 
• This is a program for communication partners so the person who has the AAC does not attend the workshop sessions 

What’s included?

• 6 x 2-hour workshop sessions (communication partners only) 

• 2 x 1:1 sessions with you and the person you support (pre-program assessment and mid-way through program to practice skills) 

Start date: Tuesday 29^th April 2025 (1:1 sessions) 

Time: 12:00pm (group sessions run for 2 hours, 15 mins) 

Venue: online 

Time for individual sessions: to be negotiated 

Please note that Tech Talkers is a program for anyone communicating with a child or young person who uses an AAC system. The child or young person does not attend any of the sessions. 

To undertake the program, the child or young person you are caring for must already be using an AAC system such as high-tech AAC (eg, an iPad with communication software or dedicated AAC device) or a low-tech system (eg, a PODD book, PECS, communication board).

Tech Talkers® was developed by Rocky Bay speech pathologists in 2016 and has helped thousands of children and their carers around the world. 

If you have any questions at all, please fill out our expression of interest form via this link or contact cassandrayee@lifestart.org.au.