The CSWN Newsletter is published twice each year, with its goal being to offer practical information to those interested in AAC and assistive technology in areas of the world where these fields are still emerging. It aims to present new ideas that are easily adaptable across settings.

• Co-editors Signhild Skogdal (Chair of ISAAC Council) and Miroslav Vrankic (Chair of ISAAC BUILD Committee)

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, June 2023

CSWN Archives

The CSWN Newsletter began in 2009 under the name ACWN News (Augmentative Communication World Network News), initially edited by the late Anne Warrick, and succeeded by Dorothy Fraser. It was a publication of the Central Coast Children’s Foundation (CCCF) by Sarah Blackstone and Harvey Pressman, ownership was transferred to ISAAC in early 2017.

To view CSWN (formerly ACWN) newsletter archives, please choose from the issues listed below: 

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, December 2022

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, June 2022

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, December 2021 (PDF, 6 MB)

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, May 2021 (PDF, 2 MB)

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, December 2020 (PDF, 1 MB)

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, May 2020 (4 MB)

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, December 2019 (4 MB)

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, July 2019 (3 MB)

Linked articles:

• Portuguese Emergency Boards (PDF, 5 MB)
• RATA Newsletter, January-February 2019 (PDF, 611 kB)
• 2nd East Asian Regional Conference on AAC: Information and Call for Papers (PDF, 145 kB)

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, December 2018 (PDF, 3 kB)

Linked articles:

• Evaluating an AAC training for special education teachers in Sri Lanka, a low- and middle-income country By Nimisha Muttiah, Kathryn D.R. Drager, David McNaughton & Nadini Perera (PDF, 2 MB)
• Russia AAC Awareness Photos and Link to Exhibition (PDF, 725 kB)

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, April 2018 (PDF, 3 MB)

ISAAC CSWN Newsletter, November 2017 (PDF, 3 MB)

Linked articles:

• Preschool Education for Children in Sub-Saharan Africa by Victor Musowa (PDF, 731 kB)
• Bringing AAC To Ghana’s Special Needs Teachers: Finding Ideas That Work by Harvey Pressman (PDF, 1 MB)
• Egyptian AAC Challenges by Dr. Yvette Abdel Malek (PDF, 1 MB)
• Bridge School AAC by the Bay Conference Reaches Out Globally by Harvey Pressman (PDF, 1 MB)

ISAAC CSWN, July 2017 (PDF, 2 MB)

CSWN, Issue 2, 2016 (PDF, 2 MB)

CSWN, Issue 1, June-2016 (PDF, 3 MB)

CSWN Special Issue: Special Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2015 (PDF, 2 MB)

CSWN, Issue 2, December 2015 (PDF, 4 MB)

CSWN, Issue 1, June 2015 (PDF, 3 MB) *First issue as CSWN Newsletter

International Patient-Provide Newsletter,Volume IV, Number 1, 2015 (PDF, 2 MB)

ACWN, December 2014 (PDF, 2 MB)

ACWN, June 2014 (PDF, 2 MB)

ACWN, Issue 2, December 2013 (PDF, 3 MB)

ACWN, Issue 1, 2013 (PDF, 1 MB)

ACWN, Issue 2, November 2012 – Polish (PDF, 2 MB)

ACWN, Issue 2, November 2012 (PDF, 1 MB)

ACWN, Issue 1, 2012 (PDF, 1 MB)

ACWN, 4th Quarter 2011 (PDF, 582 kB)

ACWN, 3rd Quarter 2011 (PDF, 1 MB)

ACWN, 2nd Quarter 2011 (PDF, 3 MB)

ACWN, 1st Quarter 2011 (PDF, 522 kB)

ACWN, 4th Quarter 2010 (PDF, 701 kB)

ACWN, Fall 2010 (PDF, 141 kB)

ACWN, Summer 2010 (PDF, 198 KB)

ACWN, April 2010 (PDF, 328 kB)

ACWN, February 2010 (PDF, 84 kB)

ACWN, December 2009 (PDF, 96 kB)

ACWN, October 2009 (PDF, 83 kB)

ACWN, August 2009 (PDF, 76 kB)

ACWN, June 2009 (PDF, 42 kB)

ACWN, April 2009 (PDF, 50 kB)

ACWN, February 2009 (PDF, 29 kB)