Week 11

Question 1

What is AAC?

Answer 1

Supplements or replaces verbal communication

Question 2

Compare aided and unaided AAC.

Answer 2

Aided AAC includes the use of another physical object such as a communication board, pen/paper, or a voice output system

Question 3

What is low tech AAC?

Answer 3

It does not require batteries, uses pictures on a screen, or an alphabet board

Question 4

What is high tech AAC?

Answer 4

Computer speech, uses rechargeable batteries, and dynamic display

Question 5

How do you determine which device is right for somebody?

Answer 5

This will depend on the individual’s current cognitive, visual, and fine motor abilities

Question 6

What are some common myths about AAC?

Answer 6

Using AAC will prevent the acquisition of speech, some children are too young to use AAC, and that it makes it harder to learn

Question 7

What communication skills are targeted in therapy?

Answer 7

Commenting and self-advocacy

Question 8

How does culture affect someone’s views on disabilities and communication disorders?

Answer 8

Culture will affect whether/how disabilities are treated

Question 9

What is cultural humility?

Answer 9

Ability to keep an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented

Question 10

What is a dialect?

Answer 10

A form of a language associated with a specific region or group, a dialect can be distinguished by features of semantics, grammar, and pragmatics

Question 11

How many dialects are there in the USA?

Answer 11

There are around 25 dialects

Question 12

Compare mainstream and non-mainstream dialects.

Answer 12

Mainstream are more common, and they tend to be an umbrella for smaller ones

Question 13

What is simultaneous language development?

Answer 13

Acquire two or more languages from birth, mixing languages is normal

Question 14

What is sequential language development?

Answer 14

Acquire language one and then language two, language transfer is normal

Question 15

What does language development for a bilingual child look like?

Answer 15

First words around 1-year-old, grammar and vocab develop the same as a monolingual child, important to take both languages into account

Question 16

Compare a language difference and a language disorder.

Answer 16

Difference - language style meets the norms for the primary community (if difficulties are only present in second language, then it is just a difference)
Disorder - Persistent and significant discrepancy in language skills relative to what would be expected

Question 17

What is the best way to assess bilingual children?

Answer 17

Establish language dominance, assess both languages, dynamic assessments are less biased then norm-referenced