Autism and AAC

The focus of this week's episode is the family experience of supporting an Autistic family member who is an AAC user.

In this week's episode of the Unfiltered Autistic Podcast Amanda speaks with Roseanne McQuillan. A mammy of 3 from Dublin. She became passionate about AAC advocacy through her personal experience supporting her son Senan who is an AAC user.

Through her Instagram account @come.with.me.aac she highlights how AAC has impacted her son's life and indeed the entire family. Because of the lack of awareness, lack of support and lack of training available to parents in Ireland she has made it her mission to spread the word about AAC to other parents of children with communication differences and to support them by creating a community of parents who are on this path.

Additionally she is involved in a parent support group that meets up weekly and a parent WhatsApp group chat that was set up to link parents from across the country, supporting each other to support their children with aac.