Symbols
An example of an unaided symbol.
What is gesture, sign, facial expression, and/or vocalization?
What the acronym PODD stands for.
What is Pragmatic Organization Dynamic Display?
Assigning a code to retrieve a word or message.
What is encoding?
The type of access in which a person who relies on AAC indicates the desired representations directly from the selection set.
What is direct selection?
When an individual using AAC hears "beeps" as the cursor or indicator highlights items or choices.
What is message feedback?
Using a piece of dog's leash to represent "walk the dog" is an example of this sort of symbol system.
What is using a partial or associated object (a type of tangible symbol)?
An organization method that is typically organized around a personally relevant, contextually rich photograph (but can also be done with a room layout).
What is visual scene display?
A rate enhancement technique in which an AAC device or partner offers options of letters, words, or phrases to communicator as they are formulating a message.
What is prediction?
The length of time in which a person who relies on AAC sustains visual or physical contact on an item to activate it.
What is dwell time?
When partners offer information to people who rely on AAC through speech, gesture, writing, printed materials, or aided AAC to improve the receptive understanding of the communicator.
What is Augmented Input?
A symbol system that uses logic and abstract drawings in a systematic way that was originally created to promote world peace.
What are Blissymbols?
Organizing a display based on events (routines or activities) within an individual's day (vs. using a simple grid to organize a display).
What is activity display or schematic layouts?
The code "OD" for the message, "open the door," is an example of this type of encoding.
What is salient letter encoding (a type of alpha-letter encoding)?
Some examples are circular, linear, and group-item.
What are scanning patterns?
The technology in which a machine can take the individually typed letters "C - A - T" and produce the word CAT.
What is text to speech synthesis (or synthesized speech)?
Age, culture, experience, pictorial competence, language, literacy skills, sensory capabilities.
What are some factors in symbol selection related to individuals with complex communication needs? or What are factors to consider in selecting a symbol system for a person who uses AAC?
Organizing a grid display according to superordinate categories, for example, putting all foods together.
What is a taxonomic grid display?
Other names for this include Minspeak, semantic compaction, or Unity/LAMP.
What is iconic encoding?
When an individual hears a typically quieter prompt about an area of the display or an item before selecting it.
What is auditory scanning (a type of feedback)?
Messages such as "Sleep tight" "You're a nut!" and "Meemaw loves you" could be examples of these kinds of messages.
What are social closeness messages?
A symbol type that is useful for individuals who have dual sensory impairment -- people who are both deaf and blind.
What are tangible symbols?
A grid display organized according to parts of speech , i.e. organizing with the Fitzgerald Key is a type of this approach.
What is semantic-syntactic grid display?
When accessing a hotspot within Visual Scene Display, written text is displayed and a word is spoken aloud.
What is the "transition to literacy" (T2L) feature?
When an indicator or cursor moves only when the individual holds down (activates) the switch and makes a selection when the switch is released.
What is directed or inverse scanning?
A combined symbol system that incorporates both manual signs and aided symbols with speech following spoken word order.
What is Makaton Vocabulary?