Deck 13: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Question 1

Approximately people in the U.S. are not able to use natural speech to express their wants and needs and may benefit from AAC.

A) 2 million
B) 100,000
C) 4 million
D) 500,000

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What is social competence?

Answer 2

Relates to how well a person manages the social aspects of communication, such as turn taking, topic maintenance, and using balanced and reciprocal interactions.

Question 3

is an individual's language ability across all dimensions of language.

A) Strategic competence
B) Device competence
C) Operational competence
D) Linguistic competence

Answer 3

D

Question 4

is an access method in which individuals may select an item by pointing with a finger, hand, head pointer, optical head pointer, activating a joystick, or using eye gaze.

A) Indirect selection
B) Direct selection
C) Auditory scanning
D) Scanning

Question 5

signs are easily guessable, explainable, and memorable.

A) Iconic
B) Opaque
C) Transparent
D) Equivalent

Question 6

How can efficiency be enhanced for scanning techniques?

Question 7

are central to the process of classifying AAC systems.

A) Levels of technology
B) Symbols
C) Levels of support
D) Signs

Question 8

Discuss factors related to AAC system selection.

Question 9

Symbolic systems are relatively rule governed and generative, allowing for symbol combination and the creation of new symbols.

Question 10

Why are unaided systems not appropriate for every individual who needs to enhance or replace their current communication method?

Question 11

Manual sign systems include

A) American Sign Language
B) Amer-Ind
C) Signed English
D) All of the above

Question 12

The order of teaching signs or symbols must be guided by

A) The way the device is organized
B) Research recommendations that suggest biographical information should be taught first
C) The school's recommendations
D) None of the above

Question 13

Intervention is most effective if caregivers also use AAC with speech, which is called

A) Dialogic output
B) Parallel use
C) Augmented input
D) None of the above

Question 14

Partners tend to respond more slowly to

A) Male digitized speech
B) Female digitized speech
C) Recorded speech
D) Synthesized speech

Question 15

Voice output communication can be

A) Digitized
B) Synthesized
C) A & B
D) None of the above

Question 16

Aided AAC systems are grouped as

A) Manual or automatic
B) Digital or synthetic
C) No-tech, low-tech, mid-tech, or high-tech
D) None of the above

Question 17

Abandonment of AAC is usually related to

A) The expense of associated therapies
B) Equipment malfunction
C) Loss of facilitator/partner support
D) All of the above

Question 18

Discuss considerations related to choosing an aided symbol system.

Question 19

is an access method that involves the client assembling a message through a series of switch activations in which choices are presented sequentially.

A) Indirect selection
B) Auditory scanning
C) Scanning
D) Direct selection

Question 20

do not involve external equipment.

A) Tangible symbols
B) Pictorial symbols
C) Unaided systems
D) Aided systems

Question 21

is a technique that is promising for children with ASD; it consists of engaging children in interactive play and providing models of AAC symbols use during play.

A) Aided language modeling
B) Everyday routines
C) Dialogic output
D) Floor time

Question 22

Research shows that although AAC users can comprehend a wide range of grammatical structures, they tend to produce

A) Shorter utterances when using graphic symbol-based systems
B) Structures similar to those around them
C) Only single word utterances
D) Only responses to questions