October is AAC Awareness Month
October 2026 is AAC Awareness Month. We support everyone’s right to communicate in ways that work for them. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), including communication boards, can support people who have difficulty using or understanding speech. To celebrate AAC Awareness Month and promote Communication Access, we’re sharing a free dementia communication board to help more people communicate, connect and be understood.
Communication Board Service
Communication Boards for Disability Access and Inclusion
Get best-practice communication boards, co-designed by people with communication disability and Certified Practising Speech Pathologists.
Communication boards help more people to:
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enjoy choice and control
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access goods and services
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build relationships and connection
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participate in community programs
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experience more inclusive and accessible services
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reduce communication breakdowns and frustration.
NDIS Speech Pathology Supports
Embrace Access partners with NDIS participants, families, and support coordinators to create personalised communication boards tailored to each participant's unique communication needs, lifestyle, and NDIS plan goals. Our Certified Practising Senior Speech Pathologists specialise in designing boards that maximise usability to help adults with communication support needs to communicate confidently with the people who matter most. Download our NDIS Communication Board Service Information Pack here.
Ruby Yee, Director
Ruby is a certified practising speech pathologist who believes in autonomy for people with communication disability. Ruby has extensive experience working across Melbourne, Victoria as a community-based NDIS speech pathologist, specialising in the design and implementation of AAC for adults, including communication boards.
Ruby's work began in 2017 with Scope's award-winning Communication Access service, teaching inclusive practice to Australia's leading providers across transport, utilities, sports and recreation, essential services, banking and finance, non-profit and government sectors.
As a firm believer in evidence-based practice, Ruby co-authored academic research in 2019 revealing how staff training can help people with communication disability to speak up about abuse and neglect using communication boards.
With additional tertiary qualifications in education and psychology, Ruby's mission is to create person-centred supports, build the capacity of others, shift attitudes within families and teams, and spread communication disability confidence.
Ruby founded Embrace Access to challenge how we see communication disability. Rather than changing the 'disabled' person, Embrace Access changes the environment—ensuring people can communicate using their preferred method and communication partners respect difference, and adapt confidently to meet diverse customer needs.