AAC 1 Flashcards
AAC
refers to an area of research, clinical and educational practice. AAC involves attempts to study and when necessary compensate for temporary or permanent impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions of persons with severe disorders of speech-language production and/or comprehension, including spoken and written modes of communication
rehabilitation
intervention strategies that help someone who has an acquired disability regain capability
habilitation
intervention strategies that assist to develop a capability for the 1st time.
A competent AAC usesr…
Portray a positive self-image
Show interest in others and draws others into the interaction.
Actively participate and take turns in a symmetrical fashion.
Be responsive to their communication partners.
Put their partner at ease with their AAC system
linguistic competence
having receptive and expressive language…aac user must understand language of the system
operational competence
technical skills needed to operate the system efficiently….as facilitator need to be able to program it and teach it
social competence
skills of social interaction such as initiating, developing, and terminating communication interactions
strategic competence
involves the compensatory strategies used by people who rely on AAC to deal with functional limitations w/ AAC…“strategies you have for your limitations”
device abandonment
when AAC users stop using AAC….why? frustrated, sick of always needing help
multimodal
we need to think of other modalities for our users
vocabulary
stack of words used by a particular person
vocabulary should be….
reinforcing and motivating to the user
-functional
-used frequently and regularly
-indvidualized
-flexible
include a wide range of items and communication functions
-responsive to changing needs and circumstances
-arranged differently depending on user and listener needs and abilities
greetings-message of conversation
essential for initiating social interaction
Influences: age related, gender related, social status issues
small talk-message of conversation
type of conversational exchange for initiating and maintaing conversational exchanges
-Purpose: a means of transitioning between greetings and informational sharing stage
generic small talk- message of conversation
can be used across different conversational patterns
information sharing: Story telling-message of conversation
to teach, entertain, social closeness
- first person stories: the individual experienced
- second person-those they have learned from others through listening
- official stories-used to teach a lessor or explain something
- fantasy-made up
Procedural Descriptions-message of conversation
detailed information about processes or procedures, rich in detail, sequential
content specific conversations-message of conversation
informational give and take, not scripted, vocabulary varies
Wrap up remarks-message of conversation
desire to intiate or end the interaction
vocabulary selection for preliterate individuals: Coverage vocabulary
vocabulary to communicate essential messages, covers communicating basic needs, dependent on the communication needs organized by context, can be organized into levels or themes(SGD)
Vocabulary selection for preliterate individuals: developmental vocabulary
selected for the development of language and vocabulary growth, consists of a variety of nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions
common in children: i/no/yes/yeh/want/it/that/my/you/more
vocabulary selction for nonliterate individuals
unable to spell on a letter to letter basis
-message selected from a functional basis rather than developmental perspective
symbols for vocabulary
-goal to expand their words and concepts rather than increasing their use of complex synthetics forms
vocabulary for literate individuals
able to do letter by letter and word by word spelling or retrieval of messages
core vocabulary
commonly used vocabulary used by a variety of individuals