Do's and Don'ts of Implementing Real Communication Through AAC
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Presentation at the 2015 National AGOSCI Conference with David Niemeijer.
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Do's and Don'ts of Implementing Real Communication Through AAC
- 1. Do’s and Don’ts of implementing REAL communication through AAC AGOSCI 2015! David Niemeijer! AssistiveWare! Jane Farrall! Jane Farrall Consulting!
- 2. Overview • The challenge! • Counterproductive! • systems! • context! • practices! • Productive practices!
- 3. The Challenge • More high-tech AAC users than ever! • But, does getting an iPad and an AAC app deliver REAL communication?! • How do you achieve communicative competence?!
- 4. Communicative Competence • Linguistic Competence ! • Operational Competence ! • Social Competence ! • Strategic Competence! ! (Light, 1989; Light & McNaughton, 2014)
- 6. Counterproductive Systems • Provide a system with only a handful of choices! • Put mainly nouns in the system! • Focus on adding academic vocabulary to the system! • Creating custom pages for specific activities!
- 7. Too Many Nouns! Wants page! Home page!
- 8. Counterproductive Context • Demand prerequisite skills! • Require mastery of every step before moving further! • Give someone a system without modeling its use! • Provide a vocabulary without a communication context! • Limit access to the communication device! • Starting with simple “beginning” AAC systems!
- 9. No prerequisites ! “My daughter was started with a BIGmack and advanced to a Go Talk 4+, with the idea she might advance further to a Go Talk 20 and maybe one day, if all the stars aligned and she was a very good girl, a DynaVox. Nothing about this changing technology supported her to build a foundation of language development.” ! Erin Sheldon, QIAT Listserve, 21/03/2013! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
- 10. Rethinking our own practices ! ! “WE USED TO THINK: Start with just a few (4-6) picture symbols and add a few more at a time, as the student with ASD shows that he or she can communicate appropriately with them usually by requesting.” “NOW WE THINK: Really? Where is the research that defends this practice? This is certainly not how other kids learn new words and acquire language”! ! Pat Mirenda, ISAAC Portugal 2014! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
- 11. Counter-productive practices • Use the AAC system to quiz or test! • Ask questions the AAC user knows you already know the answer to! • Reward communication with food! • Require the AAC user to say it ALSO with “their words”!
- 13. AAC Success Factors impacting long-term success! • Person who uses AAC system experiences success 91.76%! • Degree to which the system is valued by the user and partners as a means of communication 90.58%! • System serves a variety of communicative functions 89.85%! • System is used for communication, not just as a toy or therapy tool (Real communication) 87.20%! • Other areas:! • Appropriate device selected ! • Support for system! ! Johnson, et al. (2006)
- 14. Productive practices • Don’t aim too low! • Provide access to high & low tech! • Use a well-designed research- based vocabulary! • Provide appropriate access! • Have the device available at all times! • Use Aided Language Stimulation! • Provide specific vocabulary instruction! • Teach how to describe words that are not on the device! • Create communication opportunities! • Allow exploration! • Work towards literacy and language! • Respect multi-model communication!
- 15. Remember • Behavioural issues will decline with REAL communication! • Academic goals will follow REAL communication! • Communication is essential!!
- 16. References • Johnson, J.M., Inglebret, E., Jones, C., & Ray, J. (2006). Perspectives of Speech Language Pathologists regarding success versus abandonment of AAC. Augmentative and Alternative Communication 22 (2), 85-99.! • Light, J. (1989). Towards a definition of communicative competence for individuals using augmentative and alternative communication systems. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 5, 137– 144.! • Light, J. & McNaughton, D. (2014). Communicative Competence for Individuals who require Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A New Definition for a New Era of Communication? Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 30, 1– 18.! !