Teaching Communication
Communication partner models spoken language and selective AAC vocabulary simultaneously without expectation.
What is Aided Language Input?
E.g., An individual opens their lunch after watching the adult open their lunch.
What is modeling?
Using a variety of different activities (both new and familiar) throughout the session.
What is task variation?
Notion that social difficulties stem from a mismatch in styles with Autistic and non-Autistic individuals (a difference in styles rather than one being disordered).
What is the Double Empathy Problem?
Complex process which involves recognizing how our body is feeling, identifying our emotion/body state based on the situation, choosing a strategy to match our needs and the task at hand, then implementing it.
What is self-regulation?
All the ways that someone communicates besides talking.
E.g., an individual can complete all steps to wash their hands with a task analysis taped to the bathroom mirror.
What is independent with an environmental support?
Showing the individual what to do.
What is modeling?
Placing focus on creating opportunities for targeting objectives by embedding teachable moments within daily routines and activities that are both meaningful and functional for the individual.
What is experiential learning?
Environmental modifications, task modifications, using items to increase/decrease sensory input to meet sensory needs, etc.
What are sensory processing accommodations?
Something used to support understanding rather than expression. NOT meant to be faded.
What are visual supports?
E.g., an individual puts on their shoes when an adult points to their shoes.
What is a gestural support?
Something that an individual receives after completing a difficult task to help increase motivation to participate (should be used very mindfully).
What is reinforcement?
Using a variety of different modes to model communication for an individual (e.g., AAC system, spoken words, visual supports, sign, gestures, etc.).
What is Multi-modal communication?
A restricted approach where the adult uses physical assistance (e.g., moving the child's hand) to complete a task.
What is physical prompting?
E.g., Using declarative language, communicating within meaningful/motivating contexts, not worrying about selecting every word specifically when modeling, etc.
What are strategies for implementing Aided Language Input (ALI).
What is a visual support (real object)?
Allowing an individual time to process and complete a task independently before jumping in to prompt.
What is waiting?
What is Functional Behaviour Analysis?
When one individual supports another to become regulated during a continuous interaction.
What is co-regulation?
Slow Rate. Model. Respect and Reflect. Repeat. Expand. Stop.
What is SMORRES? (i.e. how we do Aided Language Input)
What is a verbal prompt?
The process of teaching a step by step skill one step at a time either backwards or forwards.
What is chaining?
Supporting learning by providing tasks that are just outside of the individual's current skill range and that can be successfully completed with support.
What is the Just Right Challenge?
Teaching strategy whereby the development of a new skill by reinforcing behaviours that are close and closer to the desired skill (e.g., toilet training - first, changing in bathroom, then sitting on toilet with a pull-up, etc.).
What is shaping?