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Masters' students from McGill University will be collaborating to revise and expand the article on Augmentative and alternative communication with the help of the project coordinator User:Poule, to whom questions can be addressed.

Much of the following information was blatantly copied from User:jbmurray's North of the Rio Grande project at UBC.

Members

Co-ordinator

Students

Insert your username here, as I did above, using the format {{user2|yourusername}} (see instructions below)

Non-students

We welcome participation and help from other Wikipedia editors. You may wish to add your username below.

Steps to a great article

Step I

  • By February 1st, please register a username: using your real name is not recommended for privacy reasons. However, giving an email address, though optional in the registration process is a good idea, just in case you forget your password. You won't get any spam etc. Once you have registered, send me a email with your username and list it above in the "Members" section.
  • Get familiar with Wikipedia. You might find this tutorial helpful. Make some trial edits, however minor (but helpful!). Try out the WP:Sandbox where you can fool around to your heart's content. Demystify the process. Leave behind any sense of intimidation. As Wikipedia puts it, learn to be bold. Learn basic editing skllls and look over some of the material and resources listed below.
  • Start thinking about some of the core policies in encyclopedia writing: most notably, unlike papers and essays, everything we add needs to be sourced to another, reliable source (see verifiability and reliable sources), and we cannot insert our own opinions into the text (see WP:No Original Research and neutral point of view). Since we are going to need to reference everything we add to the article, it is a good idea to add a citation tool to help you. To do this go to "my preferences" at the top of the page; select the "Gadget" tab, check "Reftools" and save. You can now easily cite books, journal articles, etc etc using the blue button on the far right of the blue editing menu bar.


Step II

Sign up for responsibility for article sub-sections. Some sections will need to be longer and more detailed than others; so some sections would benefit from multiple editors, while others probably only need one person. You will figure some of this out as you go along, so it is fine for this list to change as things go along.

  • Introduction including definition: Poule
  • Team:
  • Unaided AAC:
  • Aided AAC:
  • Low Tech: jesszahav
  • High Tech: liyush
  • Symbols (e.g. objects/photos/bliss/pcs/tangible etc): Jerseylicious
  • Organization of symbols (messaging e.g. core/fringe, activity based)
  • Access
  • Rate enhancement strategies: Pam_pull_MOOSE
  • Specific groups of AAC users
  • Users involvement/experience:
  • Effect on speech development:
  • Language learning in AAC:
  • Literacy:
  • History of AAC: gir711
  • Multicultural aspects:
  • Outcomes:


Things to consider when doing research and writing:

  • This is an encyclopedia article, and it needs to summarize the best current information about AAC for a general audience (not professionals, clients, families), including avoiding too much technical jargon. You can find out more here WP:MOSMED One thing that can help is to "link" more difficult words to other articles here in WP. For example if I type a word with two square brackets around it (like this [[Aphasia]]), it makes a nice blue word Aphasia that links to the article about the subject.
  • Everything we include needs to come from a reliable source. In our case, this means journal articles (particularly review articles about AAC published in scholarly journals) and books. We could also probably include information from websites of organizations such as ISAAC, CASLPA, ASHA etc) though ideally this should kept to a minimum, and better sources found whenever possible. You can find out more about this here WP:MEDRS and WP:SOURCES. It is preferable that a variety of sources are used for the article.
  • This encyclopedia is a global one: it is going to be important to write it from a global, multicultural perspective, not just from a North American one. We need to think about including material relevant to people in India, Uganda, UK, Australia etc.

Resources

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