AAC
Carrico Speech Team
GLP
Early Language Milestones
Speech & Language
100

What does AAC stand for?

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

100

This person is fluent in ASL

Rachel

100

Stage where children use long memorized phrases or scripts to express a communicative intent.

Stage 1

100

First true words typically emerge around this age.

12 months.

100

These systematic sound simplifications are used by children to make speech easier as they learn to talk.

Phonological patterns/processes.

200

Words like "go", "in", "more" are all...

Core Words/Vocabulary.

200

This person was named after a Power Ranger 

Kimberly 

200

Stage where words are "freed" 

Stage 3 

200

Two-word combinations typically appear around this age.

24 months

200

Name three formal assessments to assess receptive and/or expressive language.

ROWPVT, EOWPVT, OWLS, CELF-5, PLS, DAYC, CASL, etc. 

300

Using multiple communication methods together is called this.

Total communication / Multimodal communication

300

This person doesn't know how to ride a bike.

Tinisha 

300

Stage when learners begin breaking scripts into smaller parts.

Stage 2 mitigation

300

Pointing, waving, and joint attention are examples of these skills.

Pre-linguistic skills.

300

linguadental, voiced, fricative is what consonant.

/ð/ (voiced /th/).

400

Adults should avoid demanding imitation and instead focus on this during AAC use.

Modeling without pressure

400

This person is scared of a toothbrush.

Maddie

400

True or false: Immediate echolalia of a stage 1 gestalt still counts as a stage 1 utterance.

False (stage 0).

400

At this age (range) a child should be responding to sound. 

birth-3 months.

400

In Brown's Morphemes stages, these two grammatical forms are said to be acquired at stage 2 (27mos-30mos).

Present progressive -ing; plural /s/; basic prepositions (in, on).

500

Name at least three AAC programs

Touch chat, LAMP, Proloquo2Go, TD Snap

500

This person exclusively orders off the kids menu

Hope

500

Natural Language Acquisition was developed by this clinician.

Marge Blanc

500

At this age, children are expected to demonstrate a vocabulary of at least 250 words, with an average expressive vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words.

3 years of age.

500

Skills that transfer across languages without being explicitly taught are called this

Cross-linguistic transfer (spans from phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics).