How a Student's Augmentative Communication System can be Designed

There are different ways to design the augmentative communication system to meet the needs of the home and community.

• Identify vocabulary that is relevant to the home and community
• teach family members to provide opportunities for communication and to wait
• provide simple data and evaluation sheets for home and community use
• give parents permission to expand the child's communication 
• provide parents with a clear, simple description of their child's device
• program the device with specific questions so guests in the community can be directed towards the device to answer the questions.

My next post will talk about how to implement assistive technology.

References

Dell, A., Newton, D. and Petroff, J. (2012). Assistive technology in the classroom. Boston: Pearson.