From the perspective of speech and language therapy, AAC is a component of therapy and expressly mentioned in the ?Description of Services in Speech Therapy? of the Therapeutic Products Guidelines. As part of a current research project by the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA), new forms of care are being tested in the AAC context. It can be shown that changes at the levels of the structure, process and result quality are required so that a comprehensive and quality assured AAC supply becomes possible.