Thorp AAC

What does AAC stand for?

• Awesome awesome cheese

• Augmentative and alternative communication

• Another way to also communicate

Pick all examples of "no tech" AAC

• Pointing

• Writing

• Gestures

• Facial expressions

Children who are difficult to understand would not benefit from AAC.

• True

• False

I can take the AAC device away if it is annoying me.

• True

• False

Who can model on the student's AAC device?

• Only the speech pathologist

• Teacher

• SECA working with student that day

• Peers

• All of the above

Which is an example of the "plus one technique" for a student who is using one word (want)?

• want play

• I want to eat hamburgers for dinner.

• What do you want to do later?

• want

Core vocabulary is a small set of words that make up about __% of what we say day to day.

What is a core word you can use during snack time?

Select all the reasons why people communicate.

• Complain

• Compliment others

• Get attention

• Request an item/action

What is another way people use language?