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SIMON FRASER UNIVERS10,
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Augmentative & Alternative Communications
Summer Session, 1989
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(August 8 - 16)
M/T/W/Th/F/Sat ?
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: UBC Jericho Hill School
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Instructor: David Beukelman
Course Description:
- Basic AAC Concepts
- Model of AAC
- Participation Model of AAC Intervention
- Opportunity
- Discrimination Issues
- Knowledge Issues
- Access
- User Capability
- Requirements of AAC Approaches
- Access Display Requirements
Symbols Systems
- Access Control Requirements
Direct Selection
Scanning Options
- Feedback Requirements
- Constraints
- Funding
- Facilitator Preparation
- Assessment: The Beginning of Intervention
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- Philosophy of AAC Intervention
- Assessment of Current Communication Function
- Assessment of Current and Future Communication Needs
- Language Assessment
- Physical Assessment
- Visual Assessment
- Intervention with Cognitively Limited Individuals
- Intervention with Physically Limited Individuals
- Preschool Children
- Intervention with Visually Impaired Individuals
- Intervention with Academically Competitive School-aged Individuals
- Review of Service Delivery Models
Evaluation of Students:
All students enrolled in this course will be required to complete two exams
over the conceptual, clinical, and technical information presented in the course.