AAC users' discourse in the workplace
A number of attempts have been made to capture the discourse of AAC users (Beukelman, et al.
1984; Vertanen & Kristensson, 2011) but only one corpus exists that explicitly focusses on the
language of AAC users and non-AAC users in the workplace. In this chapter, we will discuss the
work that has been done to describe AAC users’ discourse and research conducted using the
AAC and non-AAC workplace corpus (ANAWC) (Pickering & Bruce, 2009). This work has
shown that AAC users often prefer to vocalize instead of using their devices in interaction in