Feature Matching Flashcards
Enumerate the process of choosing an AAC System
- Summarizing AAC Ax results
- Determining AAC System requirements
- Feature Matching to determine potential AAC Systems
- Trialing potential AAC Systems
- Selecting AAC systems
- Personalizing AAC
What are the three things we consider when Summarizing the AAC Ax results?
- Unmet Communication Needs and Priorities
- Capabilities of the Individual
- Environmental Supports & Constraints
T or F:
Familiar partners do not need extensive shared knowledge and only require the AAC user’s message to be understood.
False.
Unfamiliar partners usually do not need extensive shared knowledge and only need to understand the message of the AAC user. The Familiar partners are those who may have shared knowledge and get to interpret wider range of modalities
What are the three (or five) capabilities of the individual?
- Motor Capabilities
- Sensory Perceptual Capabilities
- Cognitive, Linguistic, & Literacy Capabilities
Under what capability can you determine the type of representations, the appropriate type of layout, and vocabulary organization?
Cognitive, Linguistic, & Literacy capabilities
This is a collaborative process that involves the application of AAC expertise.
Feature Matching
What makes feature matching effective?
Have knowledge of the full range of AAC options available and the features of these options
This process may be required by the funding agency to establish the benefit.
Trialing Potential AAC Systems
What are the Performance Measures when it comes to Trialing AAC systems?
- Identifies priority context(s) for the trial
- Sets up the AAC support for the individual’s use within this context (i.e., appropriate vocabulary, representation, organization, layout, access technique, and output)
3.** Introduces the AAC system** to the individual and communication partners (e.g., family, educational staff, personal care attendant)
- Provides instruction in the operational skills to use the system
- Provides instruction in functional implementation for communication
- Provides opportunities for practice and use over a period of time
- Collects data to determine the impact of the system
In personalizing AAC systems, the team must…
- Select appropriate vocabulary to meet the individual’s communication needs
- Determine appropriate representations of this vocabulary (for both unaided and aided modalities, as appropriate)
- Choose appropriate organizations and layouts for aided AAC
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Determine approaches to navigation
5.** Consider encoding or prediction techniques** as required - Decide on access techniques
- Finalize output
At what phase is communication performance measured for adults with acquired conditions?
Early Phase
In this phase, efforts are made to preserve natural speech and langauge effectiveness
Early Phase
True or False:
In the middle phase, individuals and their families are educated about AAC options and the timing of AAC interventions.
False.
It should be done in the Early Phase
It is in this phase that we do the process of selecting and personalizing AAC
Middle Phase
Enumerate the process under the Late Phase
- **Changing communication needs **related to a variety of factors, including the medical condition, personal care needs, and residential setting (e.g., transfer from home to residential care)
- Changing capabilities of the individual who relies on AAC
- Changing AAC support from family members or caregivers.
