From the Coordinator

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Welcome to the first issue of Perspectives in 2009 and to our new Managing Editor, Cynthia Millikin. This issue, focusing on AAC with early intervention and preschool populations, is a valuable and highly useful resource. Thanks to Nancy Robinson for serving as our Guest Editor for this issue and coordinating this collection of articles that address early intervention and AAC. Kathleen C Sadao, Jennifer Brown, and Debbie Grant describe an assistive technology toolkit for young children with disabilities, while Patti Solomon-Rice and Gloria Soto discuss language modeling as an early language intervention approach. Sandra M. Grether presents the applications for AAC within the Response to Intervention model in preschool settings, and Nancy B. Robinson gives us a comprehensive collection of Internet resources for AAC in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Services. Finally, I am covering funding issues in assistive technology for infants and toddlers with disabilities. Our 10th Annual DAAC Conference, Pragmatically Speaking, was recently held at the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center on February 20-22. A big "thanks" goes to Jan Bedrosian, our Program Chair, who assembled an outstanding set of presentations. The keynote speakers, Dr