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An effective strategy for listening that includes Listen, empathize, and communicate respect; Ask questions and permission to take notes; Focus on the issues; Find a first step.
What is the L.A.F.F. strategy?
An acronym for ongoing assessment of student Assistive Technology needs with focus on Student, Environment, Task, and Technology.
What is the S.E.T.T. Framework?
The number of years a child learning AAC will require to get the same experience with their language representation that a neurotypical child gets by 18 months of age.
What is 84 years?
The only prerequisite needed to teach students to read and write?
What is a writing tool?
This type of vision impairment is easily correctible with corrective lenses or contacts.
What is an Ocular Vision Impairment?
The best practice for selecting AT/AAC for a person.
What is "matching the strengths of the PERSON with available technology"?
What is Feature Matching?
A teaching model that is designed to provide communication opportunities for students who use AAC with vocabulary that is readily available on their device (core / high frequency vocabulary).
What is the Descriptive Teaching Model?
This set of word families will allow students to spell over 500 words and is a common decoding strategy for all readers/spellers.
What are Rime words?
This vision impairment is often misdiagnosed because many children with this have visual acuity that is normal?
What is Cortical/Cerebellar Vision Impairment or CVI?
What is "NONE, or ZERO"?
A critical component to AT/AAC assessment that reveals the communication demands and preferences of each social circle in a students life.
What are Social Networks?
A language support method used by an adult that repeats what a child says and provides a slightly more mature grammatical version.
What is recasting?
This literacy instruction method includes Shared Reading, Self Selected Reading, Writing, and Working with Words.
What are the Four Blocks of Emergent Reading Instruction?
This neurological pathway in the brain that answers the question "Where is it?".
What is the Dorsal Pathway?
The Federal Law that requires all IEP teams to consider the Assistive Technology needs of each student who has an IEP.
What is IDEA?
All AT/AAC assessments are conducted by this group of experts?
What is an AT/AAC Assessment Team?
Calendars, schedules, and visual timers are examples of these; which make transient unaided communication easier to understand.
These methods for "working with words" instruction are highly engaging and fun for students.
What are Raps, Chants, and Cheers?
a child-centered educational practices that aimed to use two or more languages to reinforce each other and to reinforce learning.
What is translanguaging?
The minimum requirement for a student to be considered for AT/AAC who has complex communication needs and is also deaf or blind.
What is "NONE or ZERO"?
The frequency that an AT/AAC assessment is conducted.
What is "as often as needed by the student to meet the expectations of his learning and social environments"?
How effective teachers/SLP's support students who use AAC in their classrooms.
What is modeling without expectation?
This classification method assigns a difficulty level to co-occurring events including position, communication, and cognitive demands.
What is Red, Yellow, Green?
What family members, teachers, and AAC professionals must do to create language sets on a device that match the students language needs (multilingual) as well as reflect accurate phonemic word forms.
What is "tinkering with"?