AAC Instruction
A picture exchange system where the individual exchanges pictures for desired items.
What is PECS?
All people use these when communicating with others.
What are gestures?
The most common type of augmented input support.
What is VAS (visual activity schedule)?
To find discrepancies between communication needs and capabilities
What is the purpose of an AAC assessment?
AAC used to facilitate the ability to understand communication from others
What is augmented input?
Described by the book as the easiest communication to teach because of its motivation and how essential of a skill it is.
What is making choices between desired items?
This type of AAC requires a physical support.
What is aided AAC?
VAS supports language comprehension related to this.
What is temporal sequences?
Focuses on identifying an individual's current and potential strengths and needs to guide planning for interventions for now and in the future.
What is the Participation Model?
AAC used to facilitate the ability to communicate more effectively to others.
What is augmented output?
These techniques are described by research to show that typical developing children acquire language by observing.
What is aided modeling?
Referred to as a natural language sign.
What is a manual sign?
Represents a sequence of steps within a task or activity.
What is a within activity VAS?
Not one type of AAC has been found to fit best for an individual with this.
What is ASD?
SGD is the acronym for this.
Speech-generating devices
The four basic types of messages communicated with AAC
What are wants and needs, information sharing, social closeness, and social etiquette?
A study referred to in this chapter states that this type of AAC intervention had the largest effects on communication skills in individuals with ASD.
What is aided AAC?
This is shown to enhance language comprehension when paired with speaking.
What is written text?
AAC is selected for individuals with ASD on an individual basis using this.
What is a multidimensional process?
These motor movements are less complex than vocal movements.
What are manual signs?
Instruction is provided for this intervention teaching in naturally occurring contexts, by the parents teachers or peers, whoever the target skills are meant to be used with.
What is Naturalistic Teaching?
Schuler and Baldwin were among the first to suggest that individuals with Autism were meant to use symbols because of this strength.
What is visual-spatial strength?
enhances predictability for an individual with ASD
While in some cases, AAC is used to resolve communication constraints, in other cases it is used to ________________.
What is accommodate?
This percent of individuals with ASD do not have the speech to meet communication needs.
Between 10%-25%