This collection presents papers from the 1989 Southeast Augmentative Communication Conference. Papers include: "The Augmentative Communication Pre-School Program: Consultation Model" (Barbara Armstrong); "Affect and Its Communication In the Closed Head Injury Population While Using Augmentative Communication Devices" (Banajee, Sands and Schwery); "Strategies for Augmentative Communication Techniques in the Classroom" (Linda Burkhart); "Augmentative Alternatives" (Yolanda Evans and Audrey Lane); "A Whole-Aided Language Approach: Educational Teamwork Which Incorporates Language, Computers, Play, and Early Readiness Skills into a Story Framework" (Pati King-DeBaun and Kelly Lampman); a brief autobiographical sketch by Thomas Kramer (who has severe mental retardation); "Getting the Word Out to Those in the Trenches" (David Krolikowski); "Assistive Technology: Creating a Parent Network" (Andi Lennon and Pam Harden); "Augmentative Communications for the Post-Lingual, Nonverbal Adult" (Melissa Mahone); "Topic Setting: Generic and Specific Strategies" (Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite); "Reducing Learned Dependency in Potential and Early Augmentative Communication Users" (Lynn Sweeney); "Using Communication Technology with the Severely/Profoundly Cognitively Handicapped" (a case study by Gail Van Tatenhove); "Communication Techniques for the Quadriplegic Patients with High Spinal Cord Injury" (Carolyn Wiles Watkins); and "Use of Augmentative Communication Techniques in a Preschool Language Program" (Diane Williams). (PB)