aac 12 Flashcards
Implementing Effective Instructional Techniques to Teach Key Skills
Most effective instruction combines ______ and ____
direct instruction in key skills
numerous opportunities to apply them
Direct Instruction
- Instructor ____ target skill
- Instructor provides _____, including prompts
- Learner does the skill during ______
- Instructor provides corrective _____ throughout
~models
~guided practice
~independent practice
~feedback
Providing Adaptations for Individuals with CCN
- -To Accommodate Speech Impairments – Accept/Encourage/Teach alternative responses like ______
- -To Accommodate Motor Impairments – May require alternative access to content like _____
- -To Accommodate Sensory/Perceptual Impairments – See slide: AT for Reading
–manual signs, approximations, AAC symbols, letters, words
–eye pointing, scanning, partner-assisted scanning
AT for Vision
- -Increase ____/higher contrast
- -_____/magnify
- -Add ______
- -Use _____/output
~lighting
~Enlarge
~sound or speech
~tactile labels
AT for Hearing
1
2
3
4
~Clear visual display
~Volume control
~Vibration alert
~Visual signal
Building Positive Rapport and Ensuring Student Motivation
- -The support and encouragement of adults who believed in their ability to learn was fundamental to their successful acquisition of ____
- -Believe the student can be ____ and communicate that to them.
- -Incorporate the person’s interests into the ____
~reading and writing skills
~successful
~literacy activities
Monitoring Effectiveness of Intervention
- -Assess to determine ___, if instructional techniques are working, and where to go from here
- -Page 328, Table 12.4 shows potential causes of and solutions for instructional difficulties while teaching literacy skills
progress
Intervention to Teach Basic Reading Skills
-Target in Order:
- ____ and letter-sound correspondences
- Decoding and ____, and application of these skills
- Independent reading of simple texts and ___
- Phonological awareness skills
- sight word recognition skills
- reading comprehension skills
Phonological Awareness Skills
- -Individual’s understanding and awareness of the ___ of language
1. ___
2. ___ words into component sounds
3. ___ sounds to form words
4. Determining _____ in words - -Individual’s with CCN CAN acquire ____
- -Most individuals with severe speech impairments do have deficits in these skills
–sound structure
- Rhyming
- Segmenting
- Blending
- beginning, middle, or final sounds
phonological awareness skills
Instruction in Sound Blending
- -Instructor says a word ___, extending each phoneme for 1-2 seconds
- -Learner ____ the sounds in his or her head
- -Determines ____
- -Responds by ___________
–slowly
– blends
–target word
–signing, speech approximation, or selecting an AAC symbol
Instruction in Phoneme Segmentation
~If a learner has already acquired letter-sound correspondences:
- Instructor says the word ____
- Learner listens then ___ out the target sound
- Selects the letter that represents it from a _____
- out loud
- segments
- keyboard or array of letters
Instruction in Phoneme Segmentation
~If learner has not yet acquired letter-sound correspondences
- Instructor presents an array of AAC symbols all starting with ____
- Instructor says the ___ of one of the symbols
- The learner ___ the initial sound of each of the symbols subvocally or “in his/her head”
- Learner selects symbol whose _____
- different sounds
- initial sound
- segments
- initial sound matches the target
Adapted Sound Blending Activity
~Some learners may benefit from the use of printed letters as visual supports
- Instructor points to each letter in a ____ and says its sound ____, extending each phoneme for 1-2 seconds
- Learner ____ the sounds and indicates the target word
- sequence
slowly - blends
Letter-Sound Correspondences
- Instructor says a _____
- Learner selects the ____ corresponding to this ____ from an array of letters/keyboard
- Individuals of various ages who have a wide range of disabilities and rely on various types of AAC can successfully acquire ___
- Length of time required to acquire letter sounds ___
- Learners may benefit from introducing the sounds _____
- phoneme or sound
- letter, sound
- letter-sound correspondences
- varies
- incrementally (one at a time)
Letter-Sound Correspondences
- May teach in the following order:
a m t p o n c d u s g h I f b l e r w k x v y z j q - ___ are taught first
- Letters and sounds that occur more frequently in _____ are taught first
- Letters and sounds that are similar ____ are separated in the instructional sequence
- ____ are taught before ____
- Single letter-sound correspondences are taught before _____
- May focus only on the ____ and not their names initially
- Lowercase
- children’s books
- visually and/or aurally
- Short vowels
long vowels - consonant clusters
- letter sounds