Ages:3-Adult
Grades:PreK-Adult

Learn the key processes to finding effective solutions in augmentative alternative communication (AAC) and apply them to the vast and ever-changing choices available to your clients. Understand the important issues facing your clients who need AAC and become an effective member of the multidisciplinary team with thisSourcethat tells you:

• how to help beginning communicators and communicators who already have a system
• key components of the assessment process and your role on the team
• essential components of an assessment report and how to target audiences including outside agencies, family, and school staff
• how to handle funding, transport, and behavioral issues
• specific strategies for individuals with severe developmental delays and motor difficulties, autism, mild motor involvement, and adults with acquired speech disabilities

Extra helps in the book include:

• tools to assess purposeful responses and fine-motor abilities
• communication checklist
• descriptions of non-speaking and high- and low-tech voice output systems
• assistive technology checklist
• assessment report template for the Department of Public Aid
• sample reports, physician letter, and request for a trial device letter

To see more of this product's contents:

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Preface
• Sample Pages
• References
• About the Authors

177-pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover book with printable reproducible pages, evaluation tools, forms • ©2002