Navigating AAC - Alison Battye

Navigating AAC

50 Essential Strategies and Resources for Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
242 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-28440-8 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Although Speech and Language Therapists are assumed to have a knowledge of AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication), this is often not the case. This book is an approachable guide to AAC that provides an insight into working in the field, along with tips and strategies for SLTs.
Speech and Language Therapists are assumed to have a knowledge of AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication). The reality is that, unless they have had a student clinical placement in this field, they will qualify with very little experience in this area.

This book is an approachable guide to AAC and covers the various types, including paper-based and voice-output communication aids. There is guidance on how to assess a person who might need AAC, and how to work collaboratively with those who support the person on a daily basis. The author discusses the importance of core vocabulary alongside a personalised vocabulary. There are pointers for referring to specialised services, signposting families to alternative sources of funding, and making a business case for buying AAC equipment.

Written by an expert in the field, this book provides tips and strategies for SLTs who are brand new to AAC, as well as experienced clinicians wanting to gain further confidence in working with this varied client group.

Alison Battye is the author of Who’s Afraid of AAC? (2017). She is also a Specialist SLT in AAC and manager of regional specialised AAC services.

1. What is AAC?

Assessing for AAC

2. How to introduce the idea of AAC

3. Everyone on board

4. Get to know the person

5. Assess, don’t guess!

6. The foundations for AAC

7. A consistent 'yes' or 'no'

8. Assessing for access method

Supporting the AAC user

9. Input before output

10. Multi-modal communication

11. Modelling AAC to a child

12. Communication partner training

AAC solutions

13. Makaton signs

14. Objects of reference

15. Introducing symbols for choice-making

16. Symbol sets

17. Communication boards

18. Communication books

19. PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System)

20. Visual supports

21. Alphabet charts

22. Partner-assisted auditory scanning

23. Eye-pointing and E-Tran frames

24. Single message VOCAs

25. Multiple message VOCAs

26. AAC apps

27. Computer and tablet VOCAs

28. Eye-gaze technology

29. Voice-banking and message-banking

30. Communication passports

Building language skills with AAC

31. Core and fringe vocabulary

32. Personalising the vocabulary

33. Building vocabulary skills

34. Building phrases and sentences

35. Communication functions

36. Conversation club

Literacy, learning and AAC

37. Symbols or text?

38. Assessing literacy

39. Teaching literacy

40. Access to the curriculum

Advocacy and AAC

41. Talking Mats

42. Mental capacity and making decisions

43. Safeguarding and AAC

AAC and access to the world

44. Multi-media and environmental controls

45. AAC competencies

46. Setting objectives

Funding for AAC

47. Specialist AAC assessment

48. Other funding streams

49. A business case for AAC resources

50. Continuing professional development

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Navigating Speech and Language Therapy
Zusatzinfo 3 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 600 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitsfachberufe Logopädie
ISBN-10 1-032-28440-4 / 1032284404
ISBN-13 978-1-032-28440-8 / 9781032284408
Zustand Neuware
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