; (ii) racial, ethnic, gender, and linguistic identities; (iii) disabilities, including intellectual disabilities, ages, and geographic locations; (iv) levels of income; and (v) forms of augmentative and alternative communication relied upon; and (C) is subject to each of the following conditions: (i) The initial council members shall be identified in the grant application by the partners of the eligible entity. (ii) Each member of the advisory council shall be appointed for a period of 5 years. (iii) The Chair and Vice Chair of the council shall be selected by the council members at the first meeting and thereafter as the council determines to be appropriate. (iv) The council shall fill any vacancy in accordance with section 7(b)(8)(C). (2) Augmentative and alternative communication The term augmentative and alternative communication means any tool, method, technology, strategy, service, training, coaching, and other support used to supplement or replace speech. (3) Competitive integrated employment The term competitive integrated employment has the meaning given the term in section 7 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ( 29 U.S.C. 705 ). (4) Disability The term disability has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12102 ). (5) Eligible entity The term eligible entity means a partnership of at least 2 organizations— (A) for which the controlling partner of the partnership is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States that vests power and authority in individuals with significant expressive communication disabilities in terms of management, staffing, decision making, operation, and provision of services; (B) that includes at least one other organization headquartered in the United States that is either an institution of higher education or an association of professional service providers or educators in the field of significant expressive communication disabilities; (C) that has a cross-disability and cross-generational focus