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A drawing of a simplified person wearing a harness that has a talker on it. The talker is turned on with various multicoloured buttons. on one side black letters say 'AAC'. on the other black letters say 'IL'

About AACIL

For people who use symbol-based AAC, a drawing of a tablet and two floating hands. one hand is holding the left side of the tablet, and the other is pushing a button on the aac app.

the symbols or images️ we have access to decide what we can say and how we can say it. an emoji yellow person tapping their blue talker. a blank speech bubble comes from it.

Most symbol libraries leave out symbols a person touching their face next to their mouth with their index finger. a thought bubble is floating above their head. It has a key on a keychain and a question mark in it.

about things that are very important to be able to talk about, like:

types of pain
disabilities and supports
types of abuse and bigotry
details about adult activities
ways of telling people 'no'
aspects of identity
and specific interests.

A person holding a tablet AAC device, using it to shout at another person. The other person has their arms folded, and is facing away from the AAC user.

We've had enough of nonDisabled people deciding what we get to talk about and how we get to talk!

At AACIL, every single image is coded into the website a grey computer mouse, with the left button light red, and three yellow action lines coming from the button.
by a symbol AAC user. a fat person with light skin and brown hair holding an AAC device (vague details only - could be low tech or high tech) to their chest and beaming. they are wearing glasses, a purple T-shirt, and two bracelets, one of which is a medical alert bracelet. Around them are hearts and sparkles.

Every single image is drawn by a Disabled person. Someone waving using their prosthetic arm, which starts at the shoulder and has a strap that goes around their torso.

Most images are drawn by AAC users. a featureless emoji yellow person holding a pink tablet, with a speech bubble containing scribbles coming from the tablet.

Who can use the pictures on this website?

Any AAC user a drawing of a tablet and two floating hands. one hand is holding the left side of the tablet, and the other is pushing a button on the aac app.

can save the pictures on this website and use them for their AAC.

About the website

The images are stored in categories. Artwork depicting a triangle with the wide end at the top and the thin end at the bottom. The triangle is divided into 7 stripes, colored in rainbow colors. Next to the triangle is a circle with a paw print, leaf, and microorganism inside.

Sometimes, it might be hard to know where to find an image, or know what images are on the website. an emoji yellow face with three blue question marks around their face.

We know this can and should be better, and are working every day to make AACIL better.

Every day, we also add new images. 1 blue dot a plus sign and then 6 blue dots.

Some of our symbols can be found here at GlobalSymbols, with a search bar that means you can seearch for specific symbols.

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