Areas of assessment for AAC
language, vision, hearing, motor skills, cognition, literacy
What are foundational skills for writing?
Spelling, punctuation, syntax
Narrative development, phonological awareness, writing, reading, spelling
What are some interventions to address metaskills and executive functioning skills that support writing?
story organizers and evaluative rubrics
Literacy intervention that focuses on explicit instruction of individual morphemes for reading fluency, reading comprehension, and spelling
Morphological awareness intervention
This approach to literacy development makes use of the natural environment by incorporating daily activities that support literacy
Embedded
teaching metaskills, making predictions, forming questions before reading, looking up words, summarizing after each paragraph, using graphic organizers and visual diagrams
This approach to supporting literacy is structured, adult-directed, and has specific targets
Explicit
Spelling intervention techniques
practice identifying incorrect and correctly spelled words, word sorts, and intervention for particular areas of weakness: morphological skills, phonological awareness, visual storage, orthographic knowledge