Ch.11 Pros and Cons

1)    Describe the different communicative needs of person with disabilities

There are great advantages to help people with disabilities communicate. Augmentative and alternative (AAC) communication are some ways. These types of communication devices are designed to help disabled with severe speech and language impairments to help meet their complex communication needs. The program is dynamic and include not only the individual with the disability but also his or her primary communication partners. They have so many tools that will assist them.

2)    Discuss the basic approaches to meeting these differing needs

Speech generating devices which produce digitally recorded or synthesized speech output. Approaches to AAC interventions differ depending on the severity of the speech disability. The disadvantage is that it doesn’t help with the conventional method.

3)    Recognize the needs that individuals have for conversation and for graphical output such as writing, mathematics and drawing

They would be emergent communicators which have no reliable method of symbolic expression, and are restricted to communicate with the here and now method. The context dependant communicator have reliable symbolic communication but are limited to specific context because they are either only intelligible to familiar partners, have insufficient vocabulary , or both. Independent communicators are able to communicate with unfamiliar and familiar partners.

4)    Describe the major characteristics of alternative and augmentative communication devices

Unaided communication or body based modes describe communication behaviors that require only the persons own body such as pointing and other gestures and facial expressions.

5)    Describe current approaches to speech output in assistive technologies

 

6)    List and describe the major approaches to rate enhancement and vocabulary expansion

7)    Describe the major assessment questions that must be asked and answered in determining the most appropriate augmentative and alternative communication device for an individual user

8)    Discuss the major goals for and the significance of training in augmentative and alternative communication device use and communicative competence

9)    Delineate the steps and procedures involved in implementing an augmentative and alternative communication device use