LING 1P93 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Intellectual Disability, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy
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Effective communication is multimodal: people use a combination of communication modalities to meet their intended communication goals. Communicators use modalities that are not language based as well: gestures, facial expressions, vocalizations, vocal inflection, speaker proximity, posture, eye gaze. Acc suggests meeting complex communication needs by augmenting (supplementing) current communication or providing an alternative mode or form of communication. Complex communication needs: emphasizes the importance of speech, language, and/or cognitive abilities for a persons participation in society rather than focusing solely on the disorder. Speech generating device: to produce words and phrases as an alternative to speaking. Consists of 4 components that are used to enhance communication. The selection set of an acc system refers to the visual, auditory, and tactile presentation of messages, symbols and codes. Symbol: something that stands for something else; can be acoustic, graphic, manual, tactile transmit a message represent meaning interpret meaning boards, or computer.