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Friday, 4 JanuaryTutorialCarol Tenny (Industry Linguist)Eric Nyberg (Carnegie Mellon University)Overview of proposed framework and functionality for AAC language databankWe are planning the creation of a central databank for AAC language data, after the model of CHILDES and AphasiaBank. Thedatabank will be available to clinicians, researchers, AAC-device designers, and AAC-speakers alike. We hope the database willbe a forum for the AAC-speaker community, and a place where interested AAC-speakers and linguists could meet. We hope thedatabase will contribute to bringing linguists into the field of AAC research, improving scientific knowledge about humanlanguage ability, and inspiring new research into the interaction between grammar and modality in normal language function. Itcould also provide an interface where clinicians and scientists can interact and learn from each other, helping to bridge the gapbetween research and practice. In this session we describe the state of development of the project, and give an overview of thedatabase’s proposed framework and functionality. We welcome interest or participation from the LSA.102