Your clinical guide to AAC in hospital settings
Help patients communicate throughout their hospital stay.
Hospital-based SLPs don’t always have much time to assess communication needs, introduce AAC, and train the care team on how to use it.
A Clinical Guide to AAC for Hospital-Based SLPs brings together real cases, evidence-based guidance, and practical tools to help simplify AAC in acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and LTACH settings.
A Clinical Guide to AAC for Hospital-Based SLPs brings together real cases, evidence-based guidance, and practical tools to help simplify AAC in acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and LTACH settings.
Inside the guide, you’ll learn how to:
- Recognize when a patient may benefit from AAC, even during a short hospital stay
- Explore quick-start AAC options for the ICU, dysphagia, and neurological diagnoses
- Integrate AAC during dysphagia assessments, treatment, and patient education
- Navigate ethical considerations and documentation requirements
- Address barriers such as limited time, follow-up, and funding
- Build a practical AAC toolkit for your next patient
Every section draws from research, standards from The Joint Commission, and real SLP case examples — so you can connect what you learn to the work you’re already doing.
