Notes on the Reading:
Are there any prerequisites to augmentative communication?
No, anyone who is non-speaking or unable to express themselves effectively through spoken language are candidates for augmentative communciation systems and devices.
Aided Augmentative Communciation requires a deveice such as a language board or a talking computer.
Unaided Augmentative Communciation involves only the body of the communciator and include pointing, facial expressions, and sign language.
What does the Participant Model for Collaborative Team Assessment entail?
*Assessment of a student's current communciation
pattern
* Assessment of a student's needs across daily routines
*Identification of access barriers within the natural
environment
*Determination of future communciation needs in
these environments
*Selection and design of an augmentative
communciation system
*Evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the
augmentative communication system (ongoing)
What are the primary considerations involved in selecting and designing a student's Augmentative Communcation System?
*Symbols
*Vocabulary
*Access Method
My Response to the Reading:
Again in the myths and realities section- we see the re-occuring idea that using a crutch will inhibit a persons ability to walk, formulated here as: augmentative communication will "inhibit" the development of normal speech and must only be used as a last resort.
I was pleased to see it addressed, and de-bunked by research.
My questions for the class from this reading is:
Have they seen the YouTube Video:
In My Language by Silent Miaow?
If not, it is on my "Stuff to Share" page. I would enjoy a class discussion around the ideas that A.M.Baggs brings up.
Are there any prerequisites to augmentative communication?
No, anyone who is non-speaking or unable to express themselves effectively through spoken language are candidates for augmentative communciation systems and devices.
Aided Augmentative Communciation requires a deveice such as a language board or a talking computer.
Unaided Augmentative Communciation involves only the body of the communciator and include pointing, facial expressions, and sign language.
What does the Participant Model for Collaborative Team Assessment entail?
*Assessment of a student's current communciation
pattern
* Assessment of a student's needs across daily routines
*Identification of access barriers within the natural
environment
*Determination of future communciation needs in
these environments
*Selection and design of an augmentative
communciation system
*Evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the
augmentative communication system (ongoing)
What are the primary considerations involved in selecting and designing a student's Augmentative Communcation System?
*Symbols
*Vocabulary
*Access Method
My Response to the Reading:
Again in the myths and realities section- we see the re-occuring idea that using a crutch will inhibit a persons ability to walk, formulated here as: augmentative communication will "inhibit" the development of normal speech and must only be used as a last resort.
I was pleased to see it addressed, and de-bunked by research.
My questions for the class from this reading is:
Have they seen the YouTube Video:
In My Language by Silent Miaow?
If not, it is on my "Stuff to Share" page. I would enjoy a class discussion around the ideas that A.M.Baggs brings up.
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