Terms of AAC
The acronym for the AAC competencies LOSS means
What is linguistic, operational, social, and strategic?
A tool that extensively details familiar communication partners (e.g., family members, caregivers, teachers) knowledge of how a person with a complex communication profile expresses and understands information
What is, Hear Me into Voice?
An intervention that necessitates that the communication partner follow through with a request even if the communication partner knows the request is not what the person really wants to express
What is, Theory of Natural Consequences?
An interventionist may decide to "focus on the message" the AAC user is expressing OR "follow up and practice that message in the same or different way"
What is acknowledging communicative intent versus therapeutic intervention?
Recognizing culturally responsive and salient forms of this critical element on a tool or device matters in the implementation and generalization of use of AAC
What are symbols
The four purposes of communication in AAC
What are wants and needs, information sharing, social etiquette, and social closeness?
A tool that details language skills of a child with a complex communication profile
What is, Functional Communication Profile?
An often, assumed to be easy, response expected of a person when in reality the person must understand the difference between the words, know the context, remember the options, have an opinion, and know that opinion will be acted upon
What is yes and no?
One of the greatest challenges in AAC and often a goal for AAC users in which the focus is the opposite of a response. Best practices indicate a way to foster with skill is through commenting more and questioning less
What is initiation?
The term that represents the ways we support development of semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, and pragmatics for an AAC or an oral verbal communicator
What are the domains of language?
This spectrum of AAC technology has a broad array of tools from paper and pencil up to dynamic display computer systems.
What is low tech up to high tech?
A tool that details abilities in order to match assistive technology to support children (but can be used for adults)
What is, WATI - Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative?
Teaching this selecting skill can be done in many ways such as options for visuals, objects, preferred and non-preferred, self-initiated, or elicited
What is choice making?
For a person who is getting started with communication and AAC, people need to look for ways to bridge action with communication by acknowledging the person's behavior by being this...
What is, being responsive?
Ways to consider how you will run an intervention center that may foster greater joint attention and resulting communication
What is an adult-centered, child-centered, or a combination intervention approach?
These terms refer to how an AAC display may remain stationary or change when accessed by an individual
What is static or dynamic?
A tool that details how - and with what -a person communicates across different types of people
What is, Social Networks?
An important skill to learn that is a part of self advocacy, gaining attention, direct attention, negation, refusing, or protesting
What is rejecting?
This set of people, other than the AAC user, require training and support to maximize communication.
Who are communication partners?
These words are common to most people and words that are unique to a person, place, or thing
What is core and fringe vocabulary?
These terms refer to the two types of voice output for AAC speech generating devices
What is digitized (programmed human voice) and synthesized (computer generated voice)?
A tool that supports feature matching based on a person's physical and sensory profile
What is, AAC Tech Connect?
A critical intervention strategy in which the communication partner speaks a message and models the message using the individual's AAC tools or devices
What is aided language stimulation?
Many think that having a word on an icon equates to this skill. SLPs know that this skill must be explicitly trained.
What is literacy?
A population for which an SLP recognizes that less is more when developing communication supports (e.g., routine specific, either a simple image or a word, saliency when using a map, calendar, list, drawing, or photograph)
What is a population with degenerative cognitive-linguistic skills?