Welcome to the 24 Hour AAC Read-a-Thon / Internet Chat BLOG



Welcome to the 24-Hour AAC Read-a-Thon* / Internet Chat BLOG


In celebration of October Augmentative and Alternative


Communication Awareness (Advocacy, Education, Activism) Month . . .



You're invited to participate in the 6th Annual 24-Hour AAC Internet Chat / Read-a-Thon* on October 22, 2014 starting at 8AM Eastern Daylight Time in celebration of AAC Month


Let's get people around the whole world for 24 hours talking about, learning about, and advocating for access to communication for all


People in countries all around the world celebrate AAC Awareness during the month of October. This year, individuals who use assistive technology to communicate, together with families and friends, professionals, and other supporters will participate in the Sixth Annual 24-Hour International AAC Internet Chat on Skype, on Facebook (24 Hour Global AAC Chat / Read-a-Thon 2014 event page; International AAC Month; International AAC Awareness Month), and on Twitter. This year, the Event will launch at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight time (12:00 PM Greenwich time). Hosts this year are Judy Bailey, Justin Bergers, Terry Gibson, Veronica Montanaro, and others to be announced later.



We are looking for more people to host for an hour or more from various time zones around the world. Contact us via judybailey@aol.com if you wish to host for a while during this event in one or more of the venues (Skype, Facebook, Twitter).


The AAC Awareness campaign team will keep the online chats open and active for 24 continuous hours so that people around the globe may join in to chat and share stories, information, resources and advocacy for a little while or as long as they want.


Here are some ways you may join in:

Facebook: 24 Hour Global AAC Chat / Read-a-Thon 2013 event page (post information and links, follow the postings, comment) or International AAC Month page or International AAC Awareness Month page--or on your own page!


Skype: 24 Hour AAC Chat (send your Skype name to judybailey@aol.com or connect with Judy on Skype judy.bailey3. You will need to confirm contact with one of the task force members so we may add you in. Please do this ahead of time to avoid last minute confusion.


Twitter: Post and follow tweets with the hashtag #AACchat, which has been chosen for the 24-Hour AAC event tweets


Check in on the 24-Hour AAC Read-a-Thon website: -- Check the resources and video links posted there and also find the link to the Chat Room. http://aacmonth.webs.com/



AAC Awareness Website: Read and share the stories in our online AAC Collection - https://www.isaac-online.org/english/aac-awareness/archive-material/


Everyone with an interest in AAC is welcome to participate: people who use AAC, parents, friends, siblings, professionals, supporters, students. In previous 24-Hour AAC Chats, we have had participants from at least seven countries. We hope to break that record this year, with participation in every time zone and active chatting around the clock.

AAC activists in France are also planning a chat in French. For information, check the Caa Francophone event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/325041017639295/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming



For more information on this event, check our Everyone Communicates Facebook page. If you wish to commit to helping host this event in your local time zone, let us know via judybailey@aol.com.





Our goal is to get people talking all over the globe about AAC during this 24-hour period in a format that works for them. You may prefer to set up your own chats, too, if that works better for you. We would love to know how you are participating in your part of the world.



Hoping you will join us on October 22, 2014.



Judy Bailey, Co-Chair, AAC Awareness Month Task Force


Questions, ideas and comments: info@aacawareness.org or judybailey@aol.com





Facebook: 24 Hour Global AAC Chat / Read-a-Thon event and also International AAC Month and International AAC Awareness Month




AAC Month website: See ISAAC.org AAC Awareness Month page https://www.isaac-online.org/english/aac-awareness/international-aac-awareness-month/


Website for 24-Hour AAC Read-a-Thon / Chat info: http://aacmonth.webs.com/



*Why have we sometimes called it a Read-a-Thon? That's because the chats and resources have been visible in print on Skype, Facebook, and now Twitter. If you have audio and video capabilities, of course--or prefer to chat in person--then your chat could be with speech, speech output, typing, symbols and/or signing. The event will be a marathon event of communicating, writing, typing, learning and advocating about AAC and the power of commnication -- with each person's contribution happening at any time during the 24 hours. So, whether you call it an AAC Chat, an AugCom Chat, or a Read-a-Thon, it's about communicating, learning, and advocating for access to communication for everyone using the methods that they choose--in our lifetime!









Thursday, October 18, 2012


Song request list for AAC Chat day music, October 17, 2012 and for encore on October 31, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (Colorado) (1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (New York)

We have assembled a list of songs requests for the AAC Skype Chat music server today that was set up and hosted by Justin Bergers.  Unfortunately, the music server broke down in the early afternoon, and we did not get to play the entire list of requests on the 17th.  So that you might enjoy some of the songs which we would have been playing, we have added YouTube video links to the songs with lyrics where possible.  Many of the songs have lyrics within the video or in the description section at the link.  For those that did not, we have provided a second link which has the lyrics.  Also, Justin will play an encore of the music program on October 31.  Please join him online here:  http://rmv.listen2myradio.com

We hope you will enjoy these songs and let us know if you have other songs to suggest for our list.  We will be adding to our list for next year’s AAC Chat day music.  We hope to fill the 24 hours with songs that promote reflection, joy and hope, and bring an appreciation of communication, connection and relationships. 

Change is gonna come, Norah Jones

The Letter, Carly Simon

The Reasons Why, J. Ralph 

Killingly Hard, Antony and J. Ralph 

Given to Us, Ben Taylor 

Flower and the Lion, Vashti Bunyan

Birdsong, Judy Collins

Anastacia Left Outside Alone lyrics video

Entenderse, Lila Downs (in Spanish; about understanding and hope)

No Easy Walk to Freedom by Peter Paul and Mary

Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

RESPECT by Aretha Franklin

Woman with the Strength of 10,000 Men by Peter Himmelman

Lean On Me, Bill Withers 

Together We Can Change the World, African Youth Choir SIFA 

All You Need Is Love by The Beatles
 
Send a Message by Starship

Let That Be Enough by Switchfoot 

With a Little Help from My Friends by Joe Cocker

Cool Change, Little River Band

Stand By Me, Ben E. King 
It’s Only Words, Bee Gees

Listen to the Music, Doobie Brothers (Got to get a message, Get it on through)

I Am . . . I Said by Neil Diamond 

Something in the Way She Moves by James Taylor
“It isn’t what she’s got to say
Or how she thinks or where she’s been.
To me, the words are nice, the way they sound.
I like to hear them best that way -
It doesn’t much matter what they mean,
Well she says them mostly just to calm me down.”


Judy Bailey

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