S. 2 117th Congress Senate

AACCENT Act

Official title: A bill to support national training, technical assistance, and resource centers, to ensure that all individuals with significant expressive communication disabilities have access to the augmentative and alternative communication the individuals need to interact with others, in order to learn, work, socialize, and take advantage of all aspects of life in the United States.

Introduced: November 17, 2022 See on congress.gov

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Health programs administration and fundingHealth promotion and preventive careHearing, speech, and vision careHigher educationState and local government operations

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Nov 17, 2022

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Nov 17, 2022

Introduced in Senate

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Latest action November 17, 2022

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication Centers to Establish National Training Act or the AACCENT Act

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award three grants in geographically diverse regions to establish a network of resource centers to improve access to tools, technologies, strategies, training, and other methods used to supplement or replace speech (i.e., augmentative and alternative communication) for individuals with significant expressive communication disabilities. These are communication disabilities (other than communication disabilities that are primarily visual or auditory in nature) that prevent or significantly limit an individual from understanding or being understood using spoken words, resulting in the need for or benefit from augmentative and alternative communication.

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