Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Models and Applications

Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Models and Applications, Second Edition describes augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) comprehensively and offers a framework for understanding how AAC intervention can be used in the process of communication. This textbook is intended to serve as the primary text for graduate-level courses in augmentative and alternative communication in speech-language pathology programs. It also serves as an essential resource for practicing clinicians.

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Participics: Graphic Symbol Sets for a Specific Group.

Intro -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A General Introduction -- What Is Augmentative and Alternative Communication? -- Standard and NonStandard Forms of Communication -- Early Assumptions -- Terminology -- Learnability of Symbols -- A Model for AAC Communication -- AAC as Sender Support -- Less Is More? -- Alternative Access -- Adapting Manual Signs -- AAC as Support of Signal Transmission -- Multimodality -- AAC as Support of Receiver -- Beyond the Communicator-Partner Interaction -- Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model -- To Sum Up

Points to Remember -- References -- Chapter 2. Access and Message Management -- Typical Processes Involved in the MicroGenesis of Speech -- A Proposed Framework to Understand Access -- Rate of Expressive Communication -- Access -- Physical Access -- Mental Access -- Portability -- Sender Access Facilitation -- Intentionality -- Lexicon Accessibility -- Sets and Systems of Symbols: Do They Help in Lexical Access? -- Access to Message Assembly Techniques -- Message Externalizing -- Behavior -- Tools -- Cognitive Processes -- Message Transmission -- Multimodality Principle

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