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Talk To Me With Visuals

Talk To Me With Visuals. Aided Language Stimulation. What is ALS?  Engineered Environments Preschool Elementary School Middle School Activity Boards. Authors. Carol Goossens Sharon Sapp Crain Pamela S. Elder. Aided Language Stimulation.

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Talk To Me With Visuals

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  1. Talk To Me With Visuals Aided Language Stimulation

  2. What is ALS?  • Engineered Environments • Preschool • Elementary School • Middle School • Activity Boards

  3. Authors Carol Goossens Sharon Sapp Crain Pamela S. Elder

  4. Aided Language Stimulation This is an approach to language stimulation in which the teacher/therapist/parent etc. points to pictures or symbols on a communication display whilst speaking. This models interactive use of pictures and symbols and helps the child to develop understanding of the spoken word. Carol Goossens, Ph.D.

  5. In Other Words….. The facilitator points out picture symbols on the child’s communication display in conjunction with all ongoing verbal language stimulation being directed toward the child.

  6. Aided Language Stimulation Encourage functional communication within an activity-based framework

  7. Vocabulary Choice Preplanning is necessary identifying and prioritizing which activities will be targeted for intervention selecting appropriate vocabulary TEAM MEETINGS

  8. Color Coding for Communication: Many different systems

  9. Fitzgerald key People - Yellow Verbs - Green Descriptions - Blue Nouns – Orange Social - Pink Miscellaneous - White

  10. Ingfield Dynamic Vocabularies (IDV) Purple - function symbols e.g. backspace, clear, print, page changers Yellow - people and animals Red - nouns Burgundy - “food categories” Green - verbs: dark green - past tense, mid-green - present tense, pale green - auxiliaries and word endings Blue - adjectives Tan – prepositions Russet - preposition phrases White - sentence starters (black border - see below) Pink - social conventions Turquoise - time concepts Grey - “little words”

  11. Fine Tuning Vocabulary that will allow you to conduct a running commentary of what is happening while engaged in that activity Opt for more ‘economical”message Put it in Instead of: Put it in the box Put it in the bowl Put it in the cup

  12. Communication Boards designing the overlays color-coding the overlays by parts of speech using supplemental symbols

  13. Team Meetings Considerable preplanning is necessary to ensure that the communication displays required for a target activity are readily accessible to facilitators for providing ALS

  14. Putting Communication in Place training the individual to use the communication displays creating opportunities for functional use of the communication displays "engineering the environment" so materials and communication displays are readily available

  15. Engineering Environments Close Proximity to where the language will be needed Quick retrieval to be able to use with current activities Storage Format

  16. Study The Effect of Aided Language Stimulation on Vocabulary Acquisition in Children with Little or No Functional Speech Shakila DadaErna Alant Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2008; doi:10.1044/1058-0360(2008/07-0018) American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2009;18:50.

  17. Findings 3 week long aided language stimulation program Vocabulary acquisition skills of children with little or no functional speech 3 activities: visual arts and crafts, food preparation, and story time activity Each activity was repeated over the duration of 5 subsequent sessions Eight target vocabulary items were taught within each activity All 24 target items was probed Used 70% of the time with an 80:20 ratio of statements to questions All 4 participants acquired the target vocabulary items

  18. Jane Korsten The average 18 month old child is exposed to 4,380 hours of oral language at a rate of 8 hours/day from birth.A child that has a communication system and receives speech/language therapy two times per week for 20-30 minutes will reach this same amount of language exposure in 84 years.

  19. Resources Communication Displays for Engineered Preschool Environments Books I and II. by:  Carol Goossens', Sharon Sapp Crain and Pamela S. Elder.  Engineering the Preschool Environment for Interactive, Symbolic Communicationby:  Carol Goossens', Sharon Sapp Crain and Pamela S. Elder Engineering Training Environments for Interactive Augmentative Communication:  Strategies for Adolescents and Adults who are Moderately/Severely Developmentally Delayed.  by:  Pamela S. Elder and Carol Goossens' Communication Overlays for Engineering Training Environments, Books I, II, III and IV by:  Pamela S. Elder and Carol Goossens'

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