Communication Matters Journal
Editors: Sally Millar & Patrick Poon
The Communication Matters Journal offers a multidisciplinary perspective of AAC, and is published three times a year in the UK. The Journal is usually 28 or 32 pages long and contains a collection of articles written by people who use AAC, parents, and experienced AAC practitioners – teachers, therapists, engineers, researchers and others – mostly from the UK. There are usually about eight major articles (each about two to four pages long) in each issue. The articles are on a mixture of different topics, including both low and high tech AAC, and AAC use by children and/or adults:
- clinical/educational practice
- case studies
- newly developed AAC systems
- recent or in-progress AAC research
Although the content topics are specialist, most articles are quite practical, and the style of the magazine is informal and easy to read. Articles written by people who use AAC and parents/families are actively welcomed. As much as possible, articles are accompanied by photos, tables, graphs, symbols and other illustrations. The Journal comprises:
- Articles, papers & case studies
- News and reviews of new books, software and AAC products
- News about ISAAC, and ISAAC events and publications
- Feedback from readers: for example, Letters to the Editor, items stimulating and inviting discussion, and or replies and discussion on earlier items or articles
- News from the UK branch of ISAAC and information about courses, conferences, etc. taking place in the UK (this is on a ‘pull-out’ sheet in the middle of the journal, so that readers from other countries who are not interested in UK items can easily remove that part)
- A few pages of advertisements of AAC equipment from British manufacturers/suppliers
You can find back issues of the Communication Matters Journal in our eLibrary.
The Editors are keen to receive and publish articles (written or translated into English) by ISAAC members from outside the UK.
How do I subscribe to the Journal?
If you live in the UK, you can get the Journal by becoming a member of Communication Matters.
If you live outside the UK, you can subscribe to the Journal by contacting the ISAAC Chapter in your country and paying in your local currency. If your country doesn’t yet have an ISAAC Chapter, you can get the Journal by contacting ISAAC International and paying in US or Canadian Dollars.
