Unlock your communication powers!

ICAN™ Talk Clinic is offering a mini-camp this summer for campers as an intensive language and literacy experience. No more than 20 campers will be accepted and matched with clinicians and volunteers for fun and exciting individual and group activities over 3 days at the Crowne Plaza South and in the Pittsburgh community to build language, literacy and overall confidence using their AAC systems.  

Besides the excitement, comradery, and opportunities for campers to talk with their technology out and about in Pittsburgh, campers will leave with a portfolio notebook that contains:

• Work created by the camper
• Completed Early LAMBaseline or Core Word Baseline
• Summary of effective evidence-based intervention strategies
• AACTion Point handouts to share with the campers’ school team/healthcare support team
• Examples of IEP and/or Transition Plan goals/objectives
• Parent training materials and resources
• Recommendations from parent consultation meeting: will be given by the conclusion of camp or mailed out later

The application process is open for our ninth annual summer of providing a community-base camp in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  

June 24-28, 2019*

Volunteers will start training on June 24th.

Campers and Families: Please plan to arrive on June 25th for our mandatory Welcome Ceremony in the evening.

*Campers will be placed to create peer groups for activities at similar levels that are age appropriate. 

If you want to discuss specific concerns or questions you may have about your child’s AAC use, individual 30-minute consultations with Dr. Katya Hill, Executive Director of the AAC Institute and Mike O’Leary, ICAN Talk Clinic’s Clinical Director during the camp are available (an additional fee is required).

To see the entire Camp Program: Schedule

Volunteer Information:The volunteer’s program is currently full. We are no longer taking applications for volunteers.

The AAC Institute gratefully acknowledges that the Will Taylor AAC Camp volunteer student training and supervision program is made possible by a donation from the Taylor Family in memory of their son William, an AAC speaker and the Georgia Language Computer School.   A special thanks to Dr. Carolyn Higdon at the University of Mississipi (Ole Miss) for helping to organize this valuable donation for camp.

As a non-profit organization, we depend on the assistance of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and graduate students in communication disorders and rehabilitation sciences to volunteer to host our campers. If you have an interest in volunteering, click here to find the application. Please note that if you have dietary restrictions, we will do our best to accommodate you. We always suggest to bring food that you would be agreeable to you. If you have any questions, please contact us at volunteers@aacinstitute.org.