Forms of Communication
A powerful form of communication that often implies no, frustration, or contemplation
What is silence?
The purpose of communication that is often over represented on AAC tools and devices
What is wants and needs?
A tool with one button that may be on a tablet or stand alone device that has a programmed digitized message
What is a single message speech generating device?
What are routines?
Skills, either physically, emotionally, cognitively, or linguistically that a person must have to use AAC
What are prerequisite skills?
A form of communication that uses the body or face without voice
What is nonverbal communication?
A purpose of communication in which AAC is used as a compensatory strategy to get meaning across such as using speech and a communication board or using a SGD to say, I need a minute to answer your question
What is "strategic competency"?
A device that may have 1 to 84 icons (often 4-24 icons) that have digitized speech output with an accompanying overlay of icons. Many static devices have 5-8 levels to program speech specific to pages of icons
What is a static display speech generating device?
What is activity-based?
The many ways a person may express themselves.
What is multimodal or multimodal communication?
A form of communication that individuals use to express themselves that others often think AAC users do not use
What is oral verbal communciation?
A competency in which a person tells others what they are thinking, often commenting on a topic, situation, or context
What is sharing information?
Sometimes considered instructional technology, these forms of AT, offer low tech access for communicators
What is a pencil and paper or dry erase marker and board?
A set of words each AAC team member targets for a given period of time.
What is vocabulary by month?
AAC is for communication. AT is to support a person access their world. A tool like a visual schedule may have icons but is not meant for communication but is meant for self-regulation.
What is, the difference between AAC and AT?
A form of speech production produced through computer generation
What is synthesized speech?
The act of physically using the fingers for sign language or the act of programming words or manipulating functions on a SGD
What is operational competency?
A form of AAC tech in which a device has folders that open up to additional vocabulary and may function as a stand alone communication tool or also operate as a fully functioning computer
What is a dynamic display?
A way to identify and implement a word or concept in the moment it happens.
What is Just-in-Time therapy or JIT?
Often neglected because, It won't happen to us, but must be addressed in the form of an AAC Go Bag in the best interest of the individual who uses AAC and the family/caregivers
What is AAC emergency preparedness?
What is digitized speech?
The competency in which the person who uses AAC has access to vocabulary representing their receptive and expressive language(s)
What is linguistic competency?
A page that may be static or dynamic in which a scene or context is used to express messages rather than one isolated icon
What is a visual scene?
Words that are commonly said or written by most people.
What are high-frequency words?
What is the best AAC device?
What is, the device that meets the communication need given the context in the moment?