AAC and Core Boards Review Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards identifying types of AAC, core vocabulary concepts, and modeling strategies based on the Willis ISD Speech Department lecture notes.

AAC

Augmentative and Alternative Communication; includes all forms of communication other than oral speech, such as gestures, symbols, pictures, and writing.

No Tech AAC

Communication that does not require a device or tool, including gestures, hand signs, facial expressions, vocalizations, and body language.

Low Tech AAC

A personalized communication system that is not battery powered, such as physical objects, pictures (PECS or PODD), written words, or communication boards.

Mid Tech AAC

AAC that requires a power source (batteries), uses a static display with programmed voice messages, and has varied image capacities from a field of 1-30.

High Tech AAC

AAC devices with dynamic displays and synthesized voice output, offering larger vocabulary, sentence building, and the ability to store phrases.

Core Vocabulary

The words used most often every day across many activities and settings, making up much of everyday communication.

Core Board

A low tech communication board featuring core vocabulary words used to express wants, needs, comments, and questions.

Aided Language Modeling

Also called Aided Language Stimulation, this is when communication partners point to symbols on an AAC system while speaking.

SGDs

Speech Generating Devices; another term for High Tech AAC devices.

VOCAs

Voice Output Communication Aids; another term for High Tech AAC devices.

Static Display

A feature of mid-tech AAC where the display is fixed and does not change electronically, requiring programming to provide audio output for specific images.

Dynamic Display

A feature of high-tech AAC where the screen display changes automatically to navigate different vocabulary pages and build sentences.

PECS

Picture Exchange Communication System; a low-tech communication method mentioned as an example of picture-based communication.

PODD

Pragmatically Organized Dynamic Display; a type of low-tech communication system using pictures.

Big Mac

A specific example of a single-message voice output device categorized as mid-tech AAC.

Jane Korsten - QIAT Listserv 2011

The source of the statistic calculation showing that limited AAC exposure (twice weekly) would take 84 years to equal the spoken language exposure of an 18-month-old.

Proloquo2Go

A symbol-based high-tech AAC solution from AssistiveWare commonly used on iPads.