This Action Information Sheet follows a family's process of selecting and using augmentative and alternative communication to help their young son, Max, speak. Max is affected by global dyspraxia, which makes learning new motor skills--especially speech--quite difficult. For the first years of his life, Max could not say words. Before he and his mother found PACER's Simon Technology Center and learned about assistive devices, Max struggled to communicate even simple needs, such as wanting a snack or asking to have a friend come over to play. Now, with his augmentative communication device and intensive speech therapy, Max is speaking.