109 SG 7 Flashcards
Non oral communication enhance and enlarge available, though deficient oral language
Augmentative communication
Non oral communication replace absent or minimal oral language skills
Alternative communication
- Includes any visual, tangible, or auditory aid that assist a person in communicating; it doesn’t require battery or any external power of any kind
- Ex. communication boards, PECS, dry erase boards
No tech aided communication
- Simple devices dedicated to serving only as communication needs; digitized speech output
- Ex. pocket talkers, voice amplifiers
Low tech aided communicatio
Display is changed manually
Static display
- All inclusive systems, integrated systems, that can be used only for communication, but also for climate and environmental controls and accessing the internet
- Ex. ipad/iphone, dynamic display
High tech aided communication
Behavior that is purposefully directed toward another person with intended meaning, requires dual orientation to both the communication partner and the topic or referent
Communicative intent
An understanding of the relationship between a symbol and its referent (the object or concept a symbol stands for)
Symbolic representation
- The degree to which a symbol resembles a referent
- Most iconic: actual object
- Least iconic: printed word
Iconicity
How the user with access the AAC system
Interface
User directly selects the symbol
Direct selection
The most commonly employed method of this is scanning. The user selects from an array of symbols presented auditorily, visually, and tacitly
Indirect selection
The user selects from an array of symbols presented auditorily, visually, and tacitly
Scanning
Facilitators provide a prompt before the choice is made, and fade the prompt ASAP)
Errorless learning
- 80% of what we say throughout a day comes from a small bank of 400-500 words
- Forms the foundation for the AAC system
Core vocabulary
20% of what we say comes from a of bank of thousands of these words
Fringe vocabulary
Constructing a set of specific, rather than general, vocabulary that relate to a specific activity
Scripting
Teach vocabulary and prompt responses before the activity
Frontloading
Children and adults who:
- Have no oral speech or language production
- Have extremely poor intelligibility of speech
- Have difficulty producing sustained phonation
- Have difficulty producing sufficient intensity of voice
Who needs AAC?
Cerebral palsy/ other neuromuscular disorders
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Down syndrome/ other conditions associated with intellectual disabilities
Developmental apraxia of speech (DAS)
Physical challenges (blind, deaf)
Child populations likely to need AAC?
- Have no reliable symbolic communication
- Needs the support of communication partners
- Beginning to use simple and concrete symbols
- Communicates best in familiar or motivating activities
Emerging communicators
- Can use symbolic modes but remain dependent on familiar partners
- Use symbols spontaneously, usually to communicate wants and needs
- Beginning to understand more abstract symbols
- May be beginning to acquire basic literacy skills
Context-dependent communicators
- Can interact with both familiar and unfamiliar partners of any topic
- May have literacy skills that are equal to same-age peers
- Can talk about a wide range of topics in an age appropriate manner
- Combines words, phrases, and complete sentences to generate novel messages
Independent communicators
Two types of approaches?
- Unaided:
Clients own body is used (ASL, gestural systems) - Aided:
Some tool outside of the clients own body is necessary
- Generally understood gestures (pointing, yes/no headshake, thumbs up, shoulder shrug)
- Idiosyncratic signes/gestures (made up)
- Sign language
- Manually coded english (Signing Exact English, SEE)
- Finger spelling
Examples of unaided AAC?