Talk To Me With Visuals
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Talk To Me With Visuals
Aided Language Stimulation
•What is ALS?
•Engineered Environments
•Preschool
•Elementary School
•Middle School
•Activity Boards
Authors
Carol GoossensSharon Sapp Crain
Pamela S. Elder
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.
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.
Aided Language Stimulation
Encourage functionalcommunication within an activity-based framework
Vocabulary Choice
Preplanning is necessary
•identifying and prioritizing which activities will be targeted for intervention
•selecting appropriate vocabulary
TEAM MEETINGS
Color Coding for
Communication:
Many different systems
Fitzgerald key People - Yellow
Verbs - Green
Descriptions - Blue
Nouns – Orange Social - Pink
Miscellaneous - White
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 – prepositionsRusset - preposition phrases White - sentence starters (black border - see below) Pink - social conventions Turquoise - time concepts Grey - “little words”
Fine TuningVocabulary 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 boxPut it in the bowlPut it in the cup
Communication Boards
•designing the overlays
•color-coding the overlays by parts of speech
•using supplemental symbols
Team MeetingsConsiderable preplanning is necessary to ensure that the
communication displays required for a target activity are readily
accessible to facilitators for providing ALS
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
Engineering Environments
Close Proximity to where the language will be needed
Quick retrieval to be able to use with current activitiesStorage
Format
StudyThe 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.
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
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.
ResourcesCommunication 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 Communication by: 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'