AAC Foundations
Give an example of a type of symbol.
What are pictures/objects/line drawings/words/manual signs?
This is a feature within high-tech AAC devices that allows activation of a particular item or button on the screen, resulting in linking to a new page of vocabulary which is either relevant to a particular topic or continues a sentence structure.
What is dynamic display?
This occurs when different disciplines work in collaboration toward a common goal. It involves integrating knowledge from different disciplines.
What is interdisciplinary collaboration?
___ is a diagnosis based on substantial limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. However, ___ is a neurodevelopmental diagnosis.
What are:
1. Intellectual Disability/ID
2. Autism/Autism Spectrum Disorders/ASD
This is the outward expressions that are obvious to anyone observing the individual.
What are externalizing behaviors?
This provides the AAC user space to communicate by giving them time to process what you’ve just modeled.
What is wait time/invitation and wait time?
These devices used solely for the purposes of communication and AAC. These devices cannot access other apps.
What are dedicated devices?
This type of collaboration may take place by meeting with other team members, observing a session, or in a case conference meeting.
What is indirect collaboration?
When a child is diagnosed with ASD, their diagnosis includes one of these three levels of support.
What are:
1. Requires support
2. Requires substantial support
3. Requires very substantial support
These neurons send motor axons to the cranial and spinal nerves.
What are Lower Motor Neurons?
This type of AAC is beneficial for individuals who have a high receptive language than expressive language, are experiencing rapid growth on other types of AAC, or have difficulty accessing manual commuication.
What is high-tech AAC?
These are photos, line-drawn images, or text to represent words or concepts.
What are symbol sets?
These are the areas of counseling where SLPs can provide counseling, per ASHA Code of Ethics.
What are communication, feeding, swallowing, and hearing?
According to your textbook, 85% of the ID population falls into this type of severity. These individuals can generally learn reading, writing, and math skills between third and sixth grade levels. They may have jobs and live independently.
What is Mild?
This is used to evaluate the patient's swallowing skills. The SLP prevents different textures and consistencies to determine if further evaluation is needed.
What is a Bedside Swallowing Evaluation/Clinical Swallowing Evaluation?
This is a treatment strategy used to show language to the AAC learner. It provides language stimulation in the same modality that we are expecting language acquisition to develop.
What is aided language stimulation?
This is the process where the AAC user explores touching symbols, listening to the voice output, testing out buttons, and finding where symbols are.
What is babbling/exploration?
This is an example of counseling in the SLP field. It occurs when the SLP gives the patient and/or their family information and informs them regarding a diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment.
What is education?
This treatment strategy includes structured learning opportunities in the natural environment by using the child's interests and natural motivation.
What is incidental teaching?
This Assists treatment team with understanding the reason/motivation underlying the behavior, under what conditions the behavior does and does not occur.
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)?
This is part of the AAC evaluation process, which strives to evaluate the patient's current communication to match the appropriate array of AAC options to meet the individual's needs.
What is feature match analysis?
This when the patient and family are given time to explore an AAC, test it out, and evaluate if the device could be an appropriate match. This ideally takes place over at least 2-4 weeks with a variety of devices and communication apps.
What is a device trial?
This is an example of counseling in the SLP field. It occurs when the SLP provides recommendations to the family about other helpful services and gives them information about those services.
What is a referral?
1) This test is considered to be the gold standard used in diagnosing Autism.
2) This term addresses the unique ways an individual's brain works. It rejects the idea of ableism, while supporting independence.
1) What is the ADOS?
2) What is neurodiversity?
This is a surgical placement of plastic or metal tube in the trachea to create the airway. You may see this in patients with CP, because of how motor weakness impacts respiration.
What is a tracheotomy?