Core Vocabulary
Core vocabulary is based on this.
What are high frequency words?
The type of app that can be used by people who do not read or write.
What is symbol-based AAC?
How someone could access AAC if they can't touch the screen of an AAC device, but can hold a pencil.
What is a stylus
What schools are required to do.
What is providing the technology the child needs to access learning.
What we avoid doing when teaching AAC.
What is hand over hand prompting?
What the core word Cold can talk about.
What is having a cold, feeling cold, or describing something that is cold?
Where we buy an AAC App.
What is the App Store? (just like any other app).
An access modality that uses the person's head as a mouse on screen.
What is head tracking?
What the Declaration of Human Rights says about communication.
Everyone has the right to communicate in any medium.
When we teach by showing the child what to do.
What is modeling AAC?
Words that are important to the individual.
What is personal core?
The type of app used by someone who is able to read and write.
What is text to speech?
This tracks someone's pupils on the screen of the AAC device, using infra-red cameras.
What is eye gaze AAC?
Writing the insurance report for AAC.
What can only be written by the SLP?
An online series of modules that are free and teach you about AAC.
What are AAC Essentials?
The SNUG acronym.
What is Spontaneous Novel Utterance Generation?
The platform that supports most AAC apps.
What is iOS?
What can be used by someone who cannot exert pressure to touch a button.
A proximity switch.
The idea that someone is too "low functioning".
What is a myth about AAC that is used to "gatekeeper" and deny access?
A way to test that an AAC user really understands a concept.
Descriptive teaching
The place on the device where core words are front and center.
What is the homepage of the AAC device?
The ability to press an icon to navigate to a new screen (folder) on the device.
What is dynamic display?
Auditory prompting
What is an access support for someone who is low vision?
Matching the abilities of the device to the abilities of the individual who needs AAC.
What is features matching?
Everywhere and all the time.
When should the AAC device be made available?