Communication
AAC
What is the abbreviation for Augmentative and Alternative Communication?
an example of a Personal Sound Amplifier Product (PSAP).
What is a PocketTalker/Mini/Maxi?
an injury to the head and brain usually caused by physical impact. Causes damage and dysfunction to the brain, which may be permanent in more severe cases. Types are concussion, contusion, penetration, a coup-contrecoup, and diffuse axonal.
What is a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?
a lens or combination of lenses that makes something appear larger.
What is a magnifier?
Any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of children with disabilities.
What is an Assistive Technology Device?
a visual language of the Deaf used in the United States.
What is American Sign Language (ASL)?
a microphone, an amplifier, and a speaker
What are the 3 basic parts of a hearing aid?
results from damage to the brain caused by strokes, tumors, anoxia, hypoxia, toxins, degenerative diseases, near drowning and/or other conditions not necessarily caused by an external force.
What is an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)?
a gesture-based screen reader that lets you enjoy using an iPhone even if you don’t see the screen.
What is VoiceOver?
Student, Environments, Tasks, Tools
What is the SETT Framework?
Language Acquisition through Motor Planning
What is the LAMP communication app?
LAMP is a therapeutic approach based on neurological and motor learning principles as well as clinical experiences to address the language development and communication needs of people with autism or other developmental disabilities. It provides a consistent motor pattern for words and a systematic way to develop communication skills allowing for unlimited language growth opportunities.
BTE, ITE, and ITC
What are 3 styles of hearing-aids? Behind-the-Ear, In-the-Ear, and In-the-Canal.
damage to the body that blocks communication between the brain and the body. A person’s sensory, motor and reflex messages are affected and may not be able to get past the damage. Injuries are referred to as complete or incomplete, based on whether any movement and sensation occurs at or below the level of injury.
What is a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)?
In general, the higher on the spinal cord the injury occurs, the more dysfunction the person will experience.
vision loss that is caused by damage to the pathways between the eye and the brain and the specific parts of the brain responsible for vision.
What is Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)?
12.8%
What was the overall percentage of people with disabilities in the U.S. in 2016?
a device that consists of two keyboards and screen devices that allow a deaf and a hearing person to carry on a conversation.
What is the UbiDuo?
It can be plugged into an ALD or ALS receiver, a radio, TV, some computer speakers and some telephones and is worn around the neck of someone who has a hearing aid with a telecoil.
What is a neckloop?
a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, whose symptoms may include numbness, impairment of speech and of muscular coordination, blurred vision, and severe fatigue.
What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
provides services, training and support to Vermonters of all ages, (from birth through old age) experiencing vision loss. employs teachers of the visually impaired, certified orientation and mobility specialists, vision rehabilitation therapists, and low vision rehabilitation therapists.
What is The Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (VABVI)?
guarantees equal opportunity for people with disabilities in public accommodations, commercial facilities, employment, transportation, state and local government services and telecommunications.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
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What is "The Periodic Table of AAC?"
a physician who specializes in ear, nose, and throat disorders and will investigate the cause of the hearing loss.
What is an Otolaryngologist?
A condition that occurs as a result of a brain injury sustained during fetal development or birth. It is caused by damage to the motor cortex of the brain. This is the part of the brain that affects muscle control and coordination. It is not a degenerative disease.
What is Cerebral Palsy (CP)?
a physician who is trained to perform eye exams, diagnose and treat disease, prescribe medications and perform eye surgery. They also write prescriptions for eyeglasses and contact lenses.
What is an Ophthalmologist?
Optometrists is an eye doctor who has earned the Doctor of Optometry (OD) degree. They take care of primary health care for the eye. They can:
Opticians aren’t eye doctors and can’t give eye exams. They fill the prescription your eye doctor gives you.
refers to respectful communication and interaction with people who have disabilities. Some examples include:
What is Disability Etiquette?