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What is an environmental adaptation intervention? Describe an example.
What is evidence-based practice? Why is it important in AAC intervention?What are the three main components that are used to make evidence-based practice decisions?
What is meant by the principle of planning AAC intervention for today and tomorrow?
Describe visual difficulties that might be experienced by individuals who rely on AAC. Describe the potential impact on designing AAC supports.
How does the AAC team assess the individual’s motor capabilities to determine potential access to unaided and aided AAC?
What are the goals of seating and positioning? What are the key principles that should guide appropriate seating and positioning?
Why are literacy skills important? What specific literacy skills should be considered for assessment? Describe at least one approach to assess each skill.
Describe five different formats that can be used to assess symbol representation skills. What are the advantages or disadvantages of these different approaches?
Why is assessment of receptive language skills important? What procedures can be used to assess receptive language? What are the advantages or disadvantages of these different approaches?
What are norm-referenced assessment and criterion-referenced assessment?Why is criterion-referenced assessment usually preferable to norm-referenced assessment for making AAC decisions?
What are the five types of opportunity barriers? How might they impact the individual’s communication? What are the implications for intervention?
Why is it important to assess the participation patterns and unmet communication needs of the individual? How can this be accomplished?
What are the key components of the Participation Model? What is the goal of each of these components? Why are they important?
What are some of the key considerations for ensuring that an AAC assessment is reliable and valid? What are some of the key considerations when assessing individuals from different cultural and
Who should be involved in AAC assessment? Why is it important to include the individual who relies on AAC and his or her family?
What content from the quotes of people who rely on AAC impressed you the most?
How does social closeness communication differ from social etiquette communication?
How does the communication of needs and wants differ from information transfer?
Why are those who interact with people who rely on AAC referred to as“communication partners” rather than “listeners”?
What is the role of an AAC finder, and who might fill this role?
How do the roles of an AAC specialist and an AAC daily facilitator differ?
What types of individuals should be considered for AAC support?
A patient who cannot speak or write can only communicate using her eyes.However, her spouse has difficulty interpreting her eye pointing, so you decide to teach him eye linking. How would you
If you were responsible for the selection of AAC support materials for an ICU, what items would you select, and why would you select them?
If you were responsible for the selection of yes/no eye signals to be used in an ICU, what signals would you propose, and why? Would you insist that all staff use the same yes/no eye signals or allow
Why is it useful to identify the communication needs of patients in an LTACH unit as part of an AAC intervention?
Why do patients with a tracheostomy require AAC support?
How commonly do nursing staff in ICU and LTACH settings interact with patients who have AAC needs?
What are the differences between ICU and LTACH medical units?
How might the cognitive and learning problems experienced by some individuals with TBI interfere with AAC use?
How do the goals of the early stage differ from the middle and late stages of intervention for individuals with TBI?
What are the goals of the early stage of intervention following TBI?
What is alphabet supplementation, and how does it affect speech intelligibility of a dysarthric speaker?
If an individual is unable to speak following a severe TBI, how likely is it that the individual will recover functional natural speech?
What communication problems are often associated with a severe TBI?
How would you design an intervention program to teach communication partners how to alter their communication style to meet the needs of a person with dementia?
Describe two strategies to use augmented input to enhance comprehension for people with dementia.
Can you think of multimedia software or web sites that you could use to construct a multimedia biography similar to those described in this chapter?
What are the benefits of beginning dementia intervention, such as developing a memory book, in the early stages of the condition?
What is the rationale for starting intervention early in the course of PPA rather than waiting until the communication impairment is more apparent?
In what ways should treatment for PPA and nonprogressive aphasia not be the same? Explain your answer.
In what ways should treatment for PPA reflect interventions for nonprogressive aphasia? Explain your answer.
Describe at least two types of interviewing activities that you might use to identify the communication needs and changes in participation patterns of an individual with severe aphasia.
Describe how you would assess the capabilities of an individual with aphasia who cannot meet all of his or her communication needs through verbal communication.
List some examples of specific-need AAC communicators’ AAC strategies or systems.
Describe some high-tech approaches that can be used for scaffolding the generative writing of a person with aphasia who has moderate difficulty with spelling errors, word selection, use of pronouns,
Describe one low-tech activity you could use to support functional writing for an independent AAC communicator with significant language formulation difficulties.
Describe one teaching activity in which you would facilitate an independent AAC communicator’s competent use of both AAC and natural speech communication in a real-life context.
How would you select messages and vocabulary for an independent AAC communicator’s AAC system?
How do stored-message and generative AAC communicators differ? How would this difference influence your selection of a low-tech or high-tech communication strategy?
What is the primary communication skill that transitional AAC communicators do not have? Describe one teaching activity in which you might facilitate the development of this skill.
How would you design an intervention program to teach communication partners how to alter their communication style to converse with a person who is a contextual choice AAC communicator?
Describe two strategies to use augmented input to enhance comprehension for people with severe aphasia.
What fundamental communication skills would you work on with an emerging AAC communicator? List two communication contexts, or interactive scenarios, that you would develop to support teaching these
What are the two broad categories of communicators with aphasia? Describe how they differ.
List five general functions of AAC (low-tech and high-tech) for people with aphasia or apraxia of speech.
Your older brother has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Do you expect that he will require AAC at some point in his life?
What is meant by the term locked-in syndrome? What is the impact of this syndrome on communication options?
What is the goal of Early Phase AAC intervention for someone with brainstem stroke?
What percentage of people who experience brainstem stroke require longterm AAC supports?
Your neighbor has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He asks if he will need “one of those talking machines.” What do you tell him?
How do the goals of Early Phase, Middle Phase, and Late Phase AAC intervention for ALS differ?
What is an AAC facilitator? Do most individuals with ALS who rely on AAC need AAC facilitators? Who typically fills the facilitator role for people with ALS?
What speech characteristic in an individual with ALS best predicts the need for an AAC assessment to take place in a timely manner? Does a diagnosis of spinal versus bulbar ALS affect the usefulness
Your aunt has been diagnosed with spinal rather than bulbar (brainstem) ALS.How is that diagnosis likely to impact her walking, eating, and speaking?
Your uncle has recently been diagnosed with ALS. What is the probability that he will maintain functional speech throughout the remainder of his life?
What two key questions can be asked to evaluate the extent to which the Participation Model (Figure 5.1) has been applied successfully to support inclusive education?
What are the three principles of Universal Design for Learning, and what are their relevance to inclusive education for students with CCN?
Describe a process for writing standards-based IEPs for students with CCN.
What is the purpose of a student profile, and what questions should be answered in compiling one?
What are six natural response options that teachers often use in classrooms, and how can these be augmented for students with CCN?
What are six natural supports that teachers often use to support comprehension in classrooms, and how can these be augmented for students with CCN?
What are four common instructional arrangements in inclusive classrooms, and what are the implications of each for students with CCN?
What are three key strategies for facilitating the transition of students with CCN from preschool to kindergarten?
Describe at least four indicators of membership and of social and academic participation in a general education classroom.
Define inclusive education.
Identify the four domains of competency that are necessary for building reading comprehension skills. What are the implications of an impairment or limitation in one of these domains, and how might
Identify the seven domains of knowledge and skills that are necessary for learning to write. What are the implications of an impairment or limitation in one of these domains, and how might
What are the benefits of direct instruction for teaching basic literacy skills?What are the benefits of applying basic literacy skills in meaningful authentic literacy activities? What are the
What are the five key components of effective literacy instruction for children with CCN? For one of these components, describe a challenge commonly experienced by children with CCN, and suggest
Describe the knowledge and skills that children typically acquire during the emergent literacy stage of development. What are some of the challenges in providing emergent literacy experiences for
What are the key extrinsic factors that can impact literacy learning, and which of these factors may be of special concern for individuals with CCN? If an individual has a limitation or impairment
What are the key intrinsic factors that can impact literacy learning, and which of these factors may be of special concern for individuals with CCN? If an individual has a limitation or impairment
What are some of the skills that good readers require? For one of these skills, describe the implication of a skill that is missing or insufficiently developed.
What are the two basic types of repair strategies, and how can conversational repairs be taught?
What are nonobligatory turns and regulatory phrases, and how can both of them be taught?
What are five strategies that can be used to enable people to initiate and establish conversational topics?
Describe two strategies that can be used to teach the use of yes and no.
Describe the six main steps involved in teaching basic rejecting.
Describe two strategies that can be used to teach basic requesting.
What are elicited and self-initiated choices, and how can they be taught?
How can language modeling be used to support the development of grammatical morpheme use in people who rely on AAC?
How can strategy instruction and language modeling be used to support semantic development in people who rely on AAC?
What are the five principles underlying grammar interventions for people who rely on AAC that were proposed by Fey (2008)?
How can explicit instruction and language modeling be used to support semantic development in people who rely on AAC?
What are the four components of communicative competence proposed by Light (1989b), and why are they important for AAC intervention?
Describe the three main language modeling techniques, and discuss their similarities and differences.
What are the eight steps involved in strategy instruction?
What are the main components of the conversational coaching cycle?
Describe four incidental teaching procedures, and give an example of each.
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