What are gestural behaviors that can be translated, or defined, by a few words or a phrase and that can be used without speech to convey messages?
100
Selection Set
What is includes the visual, auditory, and tactile presentation of all messages, symbols, and codes that are available at one time to a person who relies on AAC
100
Types of AAC teams
What is:
Multidisciplinary
Interdisciplinary
Transdisciplinary
200
"The person who is deaf", "The child with autism", "The person with a cochlear implant"
What is "people-first" language?
200
Needed to communicate essential messages necessary to cover an individuals basic communication needs
What is coverage vocabulary?
200
emphasize word or phrase
depict referent or spatial relationship
depict pacing of event
illustrate verbal statement through repetition/substitution
What are illustrators?
200
Physical Characteristics of Selection Set Displays
What is
Number of Items
Size
Spacing and Arrangement of Items
Orientation of Display
What is: Practicing, Monitoring, and Processing Interpersonal Skills
300
D physical, sensory, or mental condition that substantially limits one or more of a person's life activities
What is a disability?
300
Words that the individual does not yet know and are selected to encourage language and vocabulary growth
What is developmental vocabulary?
300
Tangible symbols may also be constructed by selecting shapes and textures that can be ______________ with a referent. _____________, a subtype of artificial symbols, may be either logically or arbitrarily associated with their referents.
What is: artificially associated and textured symbols?
300
Types of Synthesized Speech
What is
Text to Speech
Digitized Speech
Combination Speech
300
Discussing individual philosophies, goals, roles, and needs
Identifying learning and work-style needs
Agreeing on mutual team goals
Creating positive resource, role, task, and reward interdependence
What is positive interdependence?
400
A barrier or problem created by society or the environment
What is a handicap?
400
Messages selected for nonliterate AAC users are nearly always chosen from a _________ rather than a developmental perspective.
What is functional perspective?
400
The principles and strategies for combining symbols enable expression of thoughts not on the communication board. The symbols are conceptually based and constructed using consistent, systematic rules.
What are Blissymbolics?
400
Rate of speech
Output methods
Noise
Nonnative speakers of English
Older adults with hearing loss
Practice
Synthetic speech via telephone
What is: Factors Affecting Speech Intelligibility?
400
Areas of expertise for an AAC team
What is:
Speech-Language Pathology
Medicine
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Engineering
Education
Psychology
Social Services
Vocational Counseling
Computer Technology
500
A visual, auditory and/or tactile representation of conventional concepts
What is a symbol?
500
Words or messages that occur so frequently and are so lengthy that the use of an encoding strategy to retrieve them results in substantial keystroke savings for the AAC user.
What is message acceleration?
500
This is not an [AAC] system itself, but rather an organizational approach to the teaching of language and communication, which can be combined with any modality
What is Makaton Vocabulary?
500
Visual Input
What is:
Unaided Symbols
Aided Symbols
500
Use of ________________ to evaluate functional outcomes of AAC, particularly those revealing evidence of increased participation and enhanced quality of life. Such measures should be useful to, and valued by, the individual who uses AAC and/or significant others in his/her daily life.