Project Core Overview

What is Project Core?

• An implementation program that offers teachers step by step directions that will require students to use symbols.

• An implementation program that requires a speech-language pathologist to deliver the instruction.

• An implementation program for teachers that offers training, tools and resources they need to instruct an support communication for their students with significant disabilities.

• An implementation program that offers training to speech-language pathologist only.

• None of the above

In order for students to benefit from Project Core they must first:

• have access to a voice output device.

• have some visual and tactual discrimination.

• be at least 10 years old.

• be able to point with their hand or finger

• None of the above.

Project Core believes that teachers and other classroom staff can acquire the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to help students with significant disabilities acquire versatile communication skills using a core vocabulary approach.

• False

• True

Good communication partners do all of the following EXCEPT:

• attribute meaning to student behaviors.

• ensure that students have access to augmentative and alternative communication or AAC systems at all times

• use hand- over- hand to guide student.

• encourage communication without requiring it.

• provide sufficient time for students to initiate and respond.

All of the words in the Universal Core are useful across purposes, places, and partners.

• True

• False