When collaborating with team members to determine an AAC system, what do you need to consider?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer should include:
* Parsimony: The device should be as simple as possible and still meet the user's communication needs and goals.
* Minimal learning: The system or device should be immediately usable by the student with minimal instruction.
* Minimal energy: The device should require minimal physical effort and not result in student fatigue.
* Minimal interference: The device must not interfere with or distract the student from ongoing activity and participation in daily activities.
* Best fit: The device should fit the personality and preferences of the student.
* Practicality and use: The device should be easy to use in all environments, affordable, and easy to maintain.
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Gardner identifies nine categories of intelligence. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
a. Spatial b. Naturalistic c. Extrasensory d. Intrapersonal
Metacognition is
a. self-regulation of reading comprehension. c. both a and b. b. thinking about your own thinking. d. neither a nor b.
It is important to evaluate behavior in environmental contexts, and to adjust contextual variables as part of the intervention process
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Learning how to learn, how to manage one’s own learning, and how to manage learning problems or breakdowns are examples of:
a. Metacognitive learning b. Expository discourse c. Narrative discourse d. AAC systems