Sadržaj:
  • Augmentative and alternative communication processes
  • Message management: vocabulary, small talk, and storytelling
  • Symbols and rate enhancement
  • Alternative access
  • Team building for AAC assessment and intervention
  • Principles of assessment
  • Assessment of specific capabilities
  • Principles of decision making, intervention, and evaluation
  • AAC issues for people with developmental disabilities
  • AAC strategies for beginning communicators: opportunity and nonsymbolic interventions
  • AAC strategies for beginning communicators: symbolic approaches
  • Language learning and development
  • Literacy development of children who use AAC / with Janet Sturm
  • Educational inclusion of students who use AAC
  • Adults with acquired physical disabilities / with Laura J. Ball
  • Adults with severe aphasia / Kathryn L. Garrett and Joanne P. Lasker
  • Adults with degenerative cognitive/linguistic disorders / with Elizabeth K. Hanson
  • Individuals with traumatic brain injury / with Susan Fager
  • AAC in intensive and acute medical settings.