A bill to support national training, technical assistance, and resource centers to ensure that all individuals with significant disabilities affecting communication have access to augmentative and alternative communication devices, services, and supports the individuals need to interact with others, in order to learn, work, socialize, and take advantage of all aspects of society in the United States.
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Latest Action · June 13, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Access to Free Speech for All Act or the AFSFA Act
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to support national resource centers, as well as to establish an advisory committee, to address augmentative and alternative communication devices, services, and supports (which supplement or replace speech or sign language for individuals with disabilities that inhibit those forms of communication).
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