Users of Assistive and Augmentative Communications (AAC) systems sometimes have difficulty: (a) participating in conversation outside of a script they already know, (b) repairing a derailed conversation, or (c) engaging in the quick and varied banter demanded of many social situations. This chapter presents tools being developed to remedy these challenges, and the “phatic” approach on which they are based. In contrast to most AAC vocabularies, phatic vocabularies are characterized by providing a variety of expressions for the same meme. In addition, vocabularies developed via a phatic approach may use language to convey gesture, affirmation, or emotive support as much as or more than to convey wants, needs, or narrative. The intent of this chapter is not to argue for the replacement of standard AAC vocabularies, but instead to show how phatic vocabularies, through the use of tools, can be successfully used to enhance a user’s language development, particularly social language and social development, by creating vocabularies that encourage a user to engage in social settings.