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Communication Builders for AAC paperback
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Communication Builders for AAC provides comprehensive information about the assessment and use of the whole range of AAC options. Andrea Lee (née Kirton), co-author, is a highly specialist speech and language therapist but she writes this book in a style which makes this important information accessible to education practitioners, parents, carers, SaLTs. It is the core reading material for the accredited course Supporting Adults and Children using AAC.
It’s a one-stop-shop to AAC!
Chapter 1: What is AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication)?
- Why use AAC?
- What Does AAC Include?
- Access Methods
- The AAC Team
Chapter 2: Assessment
- Who might benefit from AAC?
- Cause and effect skills
- Social Communication Skills
- Symbolic Understanding
- Understanding of Spoken Language
- The expressive-receptive gap
- Visual SkillsAccess Method
- Tools for Assessment
- AAC Profile and Action Plan
- Definition of Communicative Competence for AAC users (Janice Light, 1989)
- Social Networks (Sarah Blackstone and Mary Hunt Berg, 2003)
- Means, Reasons and Opportunities (Della Money and Sue Thurman, 1994)
Chapter 3: Unaided Communication
- What is Unaided Communication?
- Assessing Unaided Methods of Communication
- Observation Schedule for assessing Unaided Communication Methods
- Developing Unaided Communication Skills
Chapter 4: Low Tech Communication Aids
- Types of Low Tech AAC systems
- Aspects of Assessment for Low Tech AAC
- Access
- Vocabulary/Language
- Social Use
- Design Issues
- The Next Step – Activities to support and develop use of the Low Tech AAC system
- Cause and effect with people (Communicative Intent)
- Requesting item/indicating choice
- Participation in a social activity
- General Conversation
Chapter 5: High Tech Communication aids
- Types of High Tech Communication Systems
- Assessment for a High Tech System
- Access
- Vocabulary/Language
- Social Use
- Design Issues
- The Next Step - Activities to support and develop use of the High Tech AAC system
- Linguistic Skills
- Social Skills
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