Penn State AAC Mentor Project - Sharing the Knowledge of AAC Users
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Step 2: Decide how mentors and protégés will "get together" regularly

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Penn State's Experience:  How did mentors and protégés in the Penn State AAC Mentor Project "get together"?

The mentors and protégés who participated in the Penn State AAC Mentor Project lived all across the country. Very few of the participants in our project lived near each other. Traveling to meet one another would have been very expensive and difficult to arrange; meetings would have occurred infrequently. Using the telephone would have been difficult because of the expense of long-distance calls and the participants� slow rate of communication.

Therefore each mentor and protégé were linked together through e-mail. This is different from other types of Internet connections, like instant messaging or chat rooms, where there needs to be a set date and time to meet. By using E-mail, each mentor and protégé could write whenever they needed to, which meant that any time a problem came up the protégé could contact his or her mentor. Using E-mail also meant that mentors and protégés could read and write messages at their own convenience free from the time constraints of face-to-face communication.

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