World Autism Awareness Day. ARASAAC's contribution over the past decade
With the creation of the ARASAAC portal by the Government of Aragon, people with autism, their families and the professionals who work with them have been able to get free access to high quality pictograms with which to create numerous materials and design intervention projects. This has undoubtedly marked a before and after for everybody, by providing free access to a set of resources with their own identity, responding to the cognitive and communicative needs of many people with ASD. José Manuel Marcos and David Romero have been at the forefront of ARASAAC since its origins and will accompany us in this webinar to share, from their experience, how ARASAAC has influenced the specialized intervention in Autism, helping to create visibility for people with ASD and generating a meeting point for professionals and families.
A Professor and specialist in Therapeutic Pedagogy. He has diploma in Auditory and language processing disorder (ADP) from the University of Zaragoza. A member of the Committee of Experts on Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems and New Technologies for the Ibero-American (AELFA) and Spanish Association of Speech Therapy. He currently participates in different projects related to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAA) and the development and use of new information technologies applied in this field. Highlighted among these projects, is his work as Coordinator in the Aragonese Portal of Augmentative and Alternative Communication ARASAAC (http://arasaac.org/), in which he is developing work on pictogram design, upkeep of the website, cataloguing of resources and various collaborations with entities and associations in favor of the accessibility of communication in different areas of daily life. He also collaborates with different Departments at the School of Engineering and Architecture in the University of Zaragoza and with other developers of free software in the design, elaboration and testing of free software tools for the CAA, gaining national recognition and international prestige: Projects such as; Comunica Project, AraWord, Project TICO, AraBoard, Picto Selector and IRIS Project. He participates as an advisor and collaborator, an expert at CAA, in the Orange #Soyvisual Foundation (http://www.soyvisual.org) project, along with the Tropical design team. He is co-author, together with David Romero Corral, of the ARASAAC distance learning course for the Government of Aragon.
Professor and Specialist in Therapeutic Pedagogy from the University of Zaragoza and holds a Degree in Educational Psychology from the University of the Basque Country. Currently, he is participating professionally in different projects related to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAA) and the development and use of new information technologies applied in this field. Among these projects is as Coordinator in the Aragonese Portal of Augmentative and Alternative Communication ARASAAC (http://arasaac.org/), in which he is developing work on pictogram design, website upkeep, cataloguing of resources and collaborating with various entities and associations in favor of the accessibility of communication in different areas of daily life. He also collaborates with different Departments at the School of Engineering and Architecture in the University of Zaragoza and with other developers of free software in the design, elaboration and testing of free software tools for the CAA, which have a recognized national and international prestige: Comunica Project, AraWord, Project TICO, AraBoard, Picto Selector and IRIS Project. He is an advisor, collaborator and expert at CAA, in the Orange #Soyvisual Foundation (http://www.soyvisual.org) project, along with the Tropical design team. He is co-author, together with José Manuel Marcos Rodrigo, of the ARASAAC distance learning course of the Government of Aragon.