This technique most closely mimics how speaking children are exposed to language and is highly effective at increasing AAC use.
What is Aided Lanuage Stimulation/Aided Language Input (modeling)?
100
This system presents language organized by functional purpose or pragmatics. It is designed to be used with a smart partner assisting the user in communicating.
What is PODD?
100
Put simply this is the rule of making the least dangerous assumption and believing in a child's or adult's ability to learn to communicate.
What is presume competence?
100
Is a commercially available communication symbol set.
What is PCS, Unity Symbols, SymbolStix, Imagine Symbols, Scelra Symbols...?
200
These words include specific and personal vocabulary and provide the context for communication.
What is fringe vocabulary?
200
Repeating back what the child has "said" without the mistake.
What is recasting?
200
The first, or at least first well known AAC app on the market its vocabulary was recently upgraded to allow for motor planning and easy growth between grid sizes.
What is Proloquo2Go?
200
Written by ASHA and TASH this set of statements such guide all those who work with individuals who are non-speaking.
What is the communication or AAC Bill of Rights?
200
These labels can be hung in your classroom, office clinic or home to aid in teaching core vocabulary incidentally.
What are descriptive labels?
300
This is one of the ways vocabulary can be organized in a communication system.
What is pragmatically, categorically, or semantically/word association?
300
This technique is called perceptual salience.
What is talking about/modeling what the child is attending to?
300
Their devices use the Unity Lanuage System which grew from the Minspeak Lanuage system.
What is PRC?
300
Also called engineering the enviroment this Imolementation technique is when the adult creates a situation where a child must use communication to have a need met or complete a task.
What is sabotage?
400
Consistent symbol placement allows for the development of this to aid in memory and fluency of communication.
What is motor planning?
400
Know as the Zone of Proximal Development it can be imagined graphically to look like this.
What is an inner tube/donut?
400
Previously know primarily for their eye gaze tracking systems this company merged with Dynavox.
What is Tobii ATI?
400
One way to describe a AAC language system which allows the user to say what they want, to whom they what, when and where they want it has the core words, fringe vocabulary and quick messages.
What is robust?
400
According to Verbal Behavior what these are two of the four functions of communication.
What is mands, tacts, interverbals, echoics?
500
One of the common color coding systems used in AAC systems.
What is Fitzgerald Key or Goosen, Eldar and Crane Color Coding?
500
Teaching in such a way that you use core vocabulary to explain important concepts and ideas and ask questions so that users can answers with the words they already have on their system.
What is descriptive teaching method?
500
Many people believe this to be the name of the symbols used but it is actually the name of the protocol used to teach a certain method of AAC.
What is PECS?
500
Evidenced by the Still Face Experiment this is the first function of language infants develop.
What is social closeness?
500
These are the four functions of communication named by Janice Light, et al.
What are social closeness, social etiquette, wants/needs and transfer of information?