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
Decoding Skills
- Once an individual has acquired ____ and knows ___, he/she has the skills to learn to decode written words
- Curriculum that incorporates _____ has shown to be more effective than the traditional sight word approach
- To decode:
a. Learner “looks” at the letters in a sequence
b. Recalls the ___ of each letter
c. ____(may be subvocally)
d. Determines ____(indicates via sign, vocalization, selecting a symbol)
- sound-blending skills and knows some letter-sound correspondences
- phonological awareness and decoding
- a. sequence
3 b. sound
3c. Blends them together
3d. target word
Sight Word Recognition Skills
- Pair instruction of ____ with ____ and decoding instruction
- Use ______ to teach sight words, include prompting, prompt fading, and repeated opportunities to practice
- Individual learns to match the _____ to a ______ when possible (exceptions: the, there, etc. teach in direct association with spoken word)
- sight words, phonological awareness
- direct instruction
- target written word,
picture, photo, or other AAC symbol
Application of Decoding and Sight Word Recognition Skills During Shared Reading
- **As soon as the individual knows a few words in ____, he/she should have the opportunity to apply his/her skills during ____
- Literate partner ___ and ____
- Learner may use _____
- isolation
book reading - reads story and pauses on target words
- speech approximation, sign, or symbol
Reading and Understanding Simple Sentences and Stories
- Once an individual can reliably and fluently decode and/or recognize by sight a range of words, they can start ____
- Requires learner to:
a. Track through the words from left to right
b. ____ each word in the sentence
c. Recall the ___ of each word
d. Process the words together to ____ - Must also be able to relate information to ____
- Start with understanding basic literal comprehension skills then move towards teaching ___
- reading sentences and stories independently.
2a. Track
2b. Decode/recognize by “sight”
2c. meaning
2d. derive the meaning
- prior knowledge
- inferential skills
Teaching to Read and Understand Simple Sentences
- Instructor presents 3 or more photos, pics, or illustrations from a story. The pictures include one that ____
- Learner reads the sentence ____
- Learner selects the picture that represents its ____
- illustrates the meaning of the written sentence, and the others are foils.
- independently
- complete meaning
Interventions to Teach Basic Writing Skills
- **This process is more complicated than ____
- Intervention requires:
a. Access to appropriate ____
b. Appropriate and effective ___
- learning to read
2a. “writing” tools
2b. instruction
Access to Writing Tools
~Pencils and markers with ____
~___ access
~Letter cards/word wall/word bank (Literacy Suites)
~adaptations
~Keyboard
Instruction and Opportunities to Use Basic Writing Skills
- Instruction should include:
a. **____
b. Numerous opportunities to ___ - Once students have acquired phoneme segmentation skills and know some letter-sound correspondences, instruction can include:
A. Instructor _____ encoding by saying a word slowly aloud, extending each sound, and selecting the letters for each sound as it is said
B. Instructor provides ____: says word while student selects each letter as they correspond
C. Instructor gradually ____
D. Student develops ___
E. Instructor provides ___ as appropriate
1a. Direct instruction
1b. apply skills
2A. models single-word 2B. guided practice 2C. fades oral scaffolding support 2D. competence with practice 2E. feedback
Employ Techniques that Reduce Some of the Demands on the Learner
- Read books with ____ and have students use the repeated lines to create their own stories:
~Red pig, red pig, what do you see? - Use ____ as a basis for writing, use prompts for beginning, middle, end (color coded, tangible)
- Provide students with ___
~Word bank/wall - ____ wherein instructor and student co-construct the story
~Word Prediction?
- repeated lines
- highly motivating photos
- words
- Shared writing