3.0.0 2904 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z Senate S S 2023-09-21 118 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-09-21T19:37:03Z 118 5705 HR 2023-09-27 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. Related bill CRS 2023-09-21 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2023-09-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA N S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2023-09-21 True F000479 Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA] John Fetterman D PA K. 2023-09-21 True M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2023-09-21 True Social Welfare Social Welfare 2023-10-11T20:30:22Z

00 2023-09-21 Introduced in Senate 2024-02-20T20:54:37Z <p><b>Augmentative and Alternative Communication Centers of Excellence and National Technical Assistance Act or the AACCENT Act</b></p> <p>This bill establishes a grant program to create national resource centers on augmentative and alternative communication.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award three grants in geographically diverse regions to establish a network of these resource centers for individuals with significant expressive communication disabilities, particularly through improved access to tools, technologies, strategies, training, and other methods. </p> <p><i>Significant expressive communication disabilities</i> 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.</p>

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