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Hosts Niki Lampi and Tamara Pogin interview Masonic Children’s Clinic SLP Corinne Schmidt about the clinic’s AAC consultation and outreach work, including device trials for families, training other SLPs, and lessons from the Closing the Gap conference. Corinne emphasizes that there are no prerequisites for AAC and describes supporting minimally speaking autistic children by accounting for analytic and gestalt language processing. She outlines key considerations for children with medical complexities plus the funding process through trials with possible grants when coverage is limited. She also shares parent-coaching priorities.