Many Stories, One Voice:
An ISAAC AAC Awareness Project

• Thematic framework: Handicap
• Geographical outreach: International
• Types of project: Awareness-raising
  
  
• Beneficiary regions :
  - Africa
  - Asia and the Pacific
  - Arab States
  - Europe
  - Latin America
  - North America
  
  
• Main responsible:
  Sarah E. Lever,
  Leadership Chair for People who use AAC
  2930 Wicklow Place
  Charlotte
  USA North Carolina 28205

Summary of the activities
The International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, ISAAC, is celebrating its second International AAC Awareness Month in October 2008. The theme this year is AAC and Literacy. ISAAC invites people who use AAC (of all languages, ages and skill levels) to write a short story, poem, or essay. The stories, which will feature AAC, will be placed on the Internet in one big collection.

The Many Stories, all written with the One Voice of AAC, are a way to promote the importance literacy for people who use AAC, and provide a stepping stone for sharing their thoughts and beliefs through writing.

In October, people who use AAC will have their voices heard all over the world when they pick any story from the Many Stories, One Voice online collection and read it aloud in a library or other public, accessible place in their community.

More information: http://www.aacawareness.org/2008events.html

Main partners
ISAAC Chapters in: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Suomi-Finland, France, German-speaking Countries, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America, Centre for AAC at the University of Pretoria.