Chapter 10 Flashcards
What is AAC?
An area of clinical and educational practice that provides communication interventions for people who have little or no functional speech or who have complex communication needs.
What is Augmentative Communication
Augmentative means to add to someone’s speech to improve the delivery of a message. With iPads, speech-generating devices, and communication boards.
What is Alternative Communication?
Using gestures, writing, body language, sign language, and facial expressions.
What is multimodal communication? Why is it important?
A method of communicating using a variety of methods, including verbal language, sign language, and different types of augmentative and alternative communication.
It is important because it helps us to convey our ideas, thoughts, feelings, and opinions.
Explain the goal of AAC?
To facilitate individuals’ active participation and engagement in meaningful events in their daily lives.
Distinguish aided and unaided AAC?
Aided is any device, either electronic or non-electronic, that is used to transmit or receive messages.
Unaided is any non-spoken communication or natural forms of communication we use with our bodies such as gestures, eye gaze, facial expressions, and sign language.
What is an example of high-tech AAC? Mid-tech AAC? No-tech AAC?
High-tech AAC - Speech generating devices, Digitized speech, synthesized speech.
Mid-tech AAC - Audio books, electronic calendars, voice amplifiers
No-tech AAC - body gestures
What are the two treatment models for AAC?
Unaided and Aided
What are the four domains of communicative competence and what do they mean?
Operational - Cognitive and motor skills required to access the features of the device/system. Learning to use signs and gestures, using low-tech and high-tech devices.
Strategic - Mastering strategies to overcome limitations and barriers encountered during communication.
Linguistic - Must possess adequate expressive and receptive language skills to communicate in various environments and with various partners.
Social - Learns how to use the system/approach to engage in effective social interactions. This means learning the skills used in typical day-to-day speaking.
