Symbols
Tangible symbols (real objects, miniature objects, partial objects, artificially associated shapes), Textured Symbols, Pictorial Symbols (photos, line-drawings)
What are types of aided symbols?
150-250 words per minute.
What is the conversational rate of a communicator without an impairment?
The type of display in which the symbols and items don't change when a selection is made.
What is a static display?
The type of assessment model which is ASHA-endorsed and considered best practice where the AAC interventions are ongoing and long-term processes.
What is the participation model of AAC assessment?
The goal is to broaden skills, opportunities, and and language learning.
What is the goal of AAC for tomorrow?
Braille or Fingerspelling
What is an example of orthography/orthographic symbols?
15-25 times slower.
What is the AAC communication rate in comparison to spoken speech rates?
The type of display in which a picture or photo that represents a situation, a place, or an experience.
What is a visual scene display?
The type of opportunity barrier which may be the result of procedures or conventions that have become the norm in a family, school, or workplace .
What is a practice barrier?
A behavioral intervention that uses motor learning principles to access consistent motor plans to locate vocabulary.
What is Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP)?
This combines speech, manual sign and graphic symbols.
What is Makaton?
The type of word or message code that uses numbers only.
What is numeric coding?
The type of selection technique in which you can use physical contact, physical pressure or depression, or pointing to choose the option directly from the set (pointing, handing a pic, etc).
What is direct selection?
The assessment resource which divides the effectiveness of speech for communication into 10 levels.
What is the Meaningful Use of Speech Scale (MUSS)?
A way to promote carry over in the classroom.
What is developing teacher relationships, training/education, knowing the curriculum, pushing in for therapy, printing out target words, using classroom labels?
Using a piece of cotton to symbolize time to get pajamas on for bedtime.
What is an example of a textured symbol?
An international system that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent letters, punctuation, and numbers to convey message.
What is Morse code?
The type of scanning in which it goes around like the second hand on a clock.
What is circular scanning?
Within access barriers, this is the most important aspect to consider, in terms of constraints, and deals with issues with things like portability, durability, appearance, intelligibility of speech output in SGDs.
What is the constraint of the preferences of the user and his/her family?
A way to promote carry over in the home.
What is training/education, respecting the family communication style, helping develop a realistic plan for use, printing out target words, helping family program the device in the beginning, group support, including family in communications?
Using a fork to symbolize time to eat.
What is an example of a tangible symbol/real object/associated symbol?
Letter=category; number=arbitrary specific message
What do the numbers and letters represent in the message code of alphanumeric?
Most dynamic display devices provide this type of feedback in the form of a display of the symbols as they are activated in a sequence.
What is message feedback?
The third aspect in the framework for making decisions about AAC design and implementation, as well as measuring effectiveness.
What is tasks?
An example of a measure or outcome for AAC intervention.
What is number of communication intentions, responses to partner messages, making choices, engaging in social conversation, repairing communication breakdown?