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A man has recently been diagnosed with ALS. What is the probability that he will maintain functional speech throughout the remainder of his life? What are the implications for intervention?
What are commonly encountered barriers to community participation for people with complex communication needs? How can intervention provide support to community partners who may interact with people
What key communication skills are important to successful patient-provider communication for people with developmental disabilities? How can intervention support the use of these skills?
Describe at least three ways in which health care services change for many children with developmental disabilities as they transition from childhood to adulthood.
Describe key areas of concern for individuals with severe disabilities with respect to assisted and independent living. What are the implications of inadequate preparation in one of these areas? How
What key elements should be considered in preparing for successful employment and volunteer activities? Describe an intervention that has been demonstrated to have a positive effect in promoting
Describe key elements in providing a high-quality inclusive educational experience. For one of the key elements, explain the implications of failing to adequately address the element, and how
Identify at least three key supports that are important to successful intervention in all of the key participation domains. Describe how the three key supports could be provided in an intervention to
What are five key participation domains for all individuals, including people with complex communication needs? For one of these domains, describe a challenge that is commonly experienced by people
Identify the 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 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 intervention
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 individuals with complex communication needs? For one of these components, describe a challenge commonly experienced by
Describe the knowledge and skills that individuals 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 complex communication needs? If the environment
What are the key intrinsic factors that can impact literacy learning, and which of these factors may be of special concern for individuals with complex communication needs? If an individual has a
What psychosocial factors affect communicative competence? Why are these factors important? What interventions have been used to build motivation, positive attitudes, confidence, and resilience?
What is meant by strategic competence? Provide some examples of strategies that might be used to overcome limitations in linguistic, operational, and social skills.
What are sociorelational skills? Why are they important for individuals who require AAC? What challenges do they face in developing sociorelational skills?What interventions might be used to build
What are sociolinguistic skills? Why are they important for individuals who require AAC? What challenges do they face in developing sociolinguistic skills?What interventions might be used to build
What operational skills do individuals who require AAC need to develop? What challenges do they face in developing these skills?
What language skills do individuals who require AAC need to develop? What challenges do they face in developing these skills? What interventions might be used to build semantic skills? What
What is communicative competence? Individuals who require AAC need to develop knowledge, judgment, and skills in four interrelated domains to build communicative competence. What are these domains?
What are visual schedules and how can they be used?
What is meant by the following principles that underlie functional communication training: 1) functional equivalence, 2) efficiency and response effectiveness, and 3) goodness of fit between the
What is functional communication training? Why is it important?
How might you teach beginning communicators to combine symbols to communicate more complex requests, comments, or questions?
How might you teach beginning communicators to request preferred objects or activities? Comment on shared activities? Ask questions?
What are potential goals for intervention with beginning communicators who are at the early stages of symbolic development (i.e., learning their first words)?
What is a signal dictionary? Why is it important?
What is joint attention? Why is joint attention important?
Why is it important to focus not only on the expression of needs and wants but also on social interaction?
What are potential goals for intervention with beginning communicators who are intentional but not yet symbolic?
What are some indicators of intentionality used by beginning communicators?
What is the goal of intervention for beginning communicators who are preintentional?
Why is it important to work closely with family and other communication partners when planning intervention for beginning communicators?
What is meant by the term beginning communicator? To whom does this description refer?
How might AAC be integrated with natural speech in interventions for children with childhood apraxia of speech? What factors impact the relative balance between AAC and natural speech intervention?
How is suspected childhood apraxia of speech defined?
What are the key characteristics of autism spectrum disorder? How do these affect the provision of AAC services and supports?
Describe three key considerations in delivering AAC services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
How is intellectual and developmental disability currently defined and evaluated?
How might AAC interventions vary across the life span to benefit individuals with Down syndrome?
Describe three key considerations in delivering AAC services to people with cerebral palsy.
Describe the communication challenges faced by individuals with cerebral palsy.
When discussing AAC systems for individuals with complex communication needs, Williams et al. (2008) emphasized that “One is never enough.” What did they mean by this statement? Provide an
What specific AAC components should be personalized? Why is personalization important?
What types of data might be collected during trials of AAC systems? Why is it important to collect data on the preferences of the individual with complex communication needs, family members, and
Describe how the AAC team conducts trials of potential AAC systems. Why is it important to conduct trials?
What is feature matching? Why is it important?
What results should be summarized from the AAC assessment? How are these results used by the AAC team?
What steps are involved in selecting and personalizing AAC systems for individuals with complex communication needs?
Why is it important to involve the individual who relies on AAC, family, and other important communication partners in the selection and personalization of AAC supports?
What are the similarities and differences between aided and unaided AAC input used in conjunction with speech?
What is the difference between the sender-receiver and the co-construction models of communication?
The parent of a child with severe motor limitations who cannot use direct selection wishes to know the difference between directed scanning and automatic scanning. What would you tell this parent?
How do feedback and output differ?
What are the differences between synthesized and digitized speech?
What type of individual might wish to use activation on release?
In direct selection access, what is meant by the word dwell, and what capabilities does the successful use of dwelling require of an individual who relies on AAC?
What is meant by the terms direct selection and scanning? How do these differ?
How do fixed and dynamic displays differ?
What is meant by multimodal communication?
What is prediction, and how is it used?
What is an encoding technique? Why are encoding techniques used? Provide at least three examples of encoding techniques.
Describe how individuals navigate between different AAC displays.
What is meant by just-in-time(JIT) AAC supports? How might they be used?What are the potential benefits?
Describe six to seven different ways that AAC grid displays can be organized.When might each organization be used?
What is the difference between grid displays and visual scene displays? What are the advantages and disadvantages of these different layouts?
Provide five examples of aided AAC symbols or representations. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each one?
Define aided AAC. What is meant by low-tech aided AAC and high-tech aided AAC? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
Define unaided AAC and provide at least four examples. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these unaided AAC options?
What informants should be recruited to suggest personalized vocabulary for a preliterate child, a nonliterate teenager, a male adult with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or a woman with chronic,
What is the role of an informant in the message selection process for an individual who relies on AAC?
Why would a person who can formulate messages through letter-by-letter spelling choose to store and retrieve whole messages with his or her AAC device?
What are the differences between core vocabulary and personalized vocabulary in an AAC system?
What are some of the tools that AAC teams might use to help select vocabulary and messages? What are the advantages and disadvantages of these different tools?
Why is it important to personalize vocabulary/messages for individuals who rely on AAC?
Why might individuals who are literate require access to phrases and longer messages?
How does AAC vocabulary and message selection differ for preliterate, nonliterate, and literate individuals who rely on AAC?
How do the greeting, small talk, information-sharing, and wrap-up stages in a conversation differ from each other?
Many people who rely on AAC experience crime or abuse during their lives.How can AAC systems be designed to deal with crime and abuse at the moment and later during legal and counseling activities?
People who rely on AAC manage their message preparation in several different ways. How does word-by-word message preparation differ from letter-by-letter spelling?
What is the central goal of AAC intervention?
Who might provide instruction for communication partners?
What is strategy instruction? Describe the steps in strategy instruction.
Describe at least five interaction strategies that might be used by communication partners to support the communication of individuals who rely on AAC.What is the purpose of these strategies?
What are knowledge barriers? What AAC knowledge might communication partners require?
What are attitude barriers? Provide an example. Describe how you would implement intervention to address attitude barriers.
What are policy and practice barriers? Provide an example. How would you plan intervention to address these barriers?
What are family-centered services? Why are they important?
What is communication accommodation theory? How is it relevant for individuals who rely on AAC and their communication partners?
Name five different types of communication partners who interact with individuals who rely on AAC and describe their roles and responsibilities. What knowledge, strategies, and skills do they require
Why is it important to consider communication partners when implementing AAC intervention?
How would you evaluate AAC intervention? What types of measures would you use? How would you use evaluation data?
Describe at least two different instructional approaches that are used with beginning communicators who have developmental disabilities to teach early communication skills. Describe at least two
What are some of the factors to consider in setting goals as priorities for individuals who rely on AAC?
Communicative competence rests on knowledge, judgment, and skills in four interrelated domains. What are these four domains? Describe why each domain is important.
There are three key components to communicative competence: 1) functionality of communication in real-world contexts; 2) adequacy of communication to meet demands in daily interactions; and 3)
Parents may be concerned that using AAC will negatively impact their child’s speech development. How would you respond to their concerns? How would you plan intervention?
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