text: Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is a major interest of mine. About six months ago I created a post that was the compilation of all the AAC-related posts at that time, partly so people who share my interest can find them all easily and partly because it helps me check if the things I’m writing match up nicely with what I *think* I’m writing.
  Six months later, I’ve done quite a bit more writings, so here is the updated post. There are about 10 new entries (I think) and I’ve put a star next to each of them so people who saw the last post know what is new.
  I talked about the ‘Hacker model’ of disability in this post. There are a couple of posts tying examples of AAC into that view.
  Open formats in AAC: Part 3 (openness in access) – I spent some time here being quite angry about Dynavox until Bob Cunningham popped up and clarified a few things that pointed to oversimplification on the part of the Dynavox sales staff, almost an argument for blogging one’s thoughts on it’s own!
  My first chapter in a textbook was published this year, on the topic of AAC and digital privacy, but putting disability in the vanguard rather than the rearguard, comments (and, of course, citations) welcome.
  *NEW! Leading not following: disability as a vanguard. In response to comments I wrote a much more easy-access summary as a blog post.
  If you enjoy that you might also like the pdfs that are in my publications section (Warning, I’ve not sorted that section so AAC papers are next to some quite dense work on processor design and language theory…)
  Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Wales – I (finally) got around to releasing the Welsh section of the Domesday Dataset, so if you are interested in AAC-purchases by the NHS in that area then fill your boots 🙂
  Guest post: FoI Appeals – The Burden of Proof – this is kind-of-related, I wrote a couple of guest posts for a freedom of information blog about some issues I encountered when building the Domesday Dataset…
  Visiting the House of Commons – also kind of related, in that I was in the House of Commons to talk to NHS England about some of the issues raised by the Domesday Dataset – but there isn’t much data in the post at the moment.
  *NEW Telepresenting: The only way to fly: A presentation I did about some infrormation you can get out of the Domesday Dataset.
  I gave three presentations at CM2013 this year, I also blogged the parts of each day I found interesting…
  Everyone should go to the Unspoken Outspoken fundraising event on Saturday! – this is now out-of-date, I’d love to know what happened… review anyone?
  Recording communication – here I’m using AAC to make a point about something else (benefits and ATOS related, included for completeness)
  In the Press – some links to news stories that have picked up my work on AAC, or Narrative (mostly narrative)
  
  Galerie Martin Janda presents the fourth solo exhibition by Joe Scanlan. The exhibition is based on a very simple, even basic, idea of furniture. However, no “furniture” in the conventional sense can be seen in the exhibition. Scanlan’s definition of furniture exceeds that of objects. He considers furniture rather as a political or philosophical concept. Furniture is not just tables and chairs but rather a state of mind that provides information about what it means to be structural, to play a leading role, to be in the background, to be important, yet to remain practically anonymous.
  You can see, for example, clotheslines that form drawings in the room; spatial arrangements of colored structures. The wooden frames that make up Möbel (for Knoebel) [2011] are simple stretchers: rectangular frames of various sizes with bevelled edges for stretching canvases. However, the use of fine wood and the elaborate production create independent objects that forego the need to become paintings in order to be considered works of art. In addition, these objects have legs and arms that allow them to sit on a wall; their posture is more like furniture than pictures.
  Cameo is a small object that can be mounted on a wall. Horizontally it acts like a shelf, as a stage for various objects (such as a coffee cup, a wad of packing tape, a notebook), which make a brief guest appearance on it. The English word “Cameo” refers to a guest appearance of well-known actor in a film that remains unmentioned during the credits. In its vertical interpretation Cameo slips into the role of a picture and thus stages its own cameo.