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Considering AAC

Visual Environments

Vocab Presentation

Representing Vocabulary

Visual Environments

Finding Pictures

Ideas for Students

Social Skills

Training

Using Devices & Systems

Representing Vocabulary

Myth: Pictures are Easy | Evaluating Pictures | Selecting Symbols | Lesson-Specific Vocabulary | Story Vocabulary | Activity-Based Vocabulary | Theme-Based Vocabulary

Evaluating Pictures

(Consider Picture Representation From the Student's Perspective)

Words can be divided into:

  • Picture Producers (car, cat, house)
car cat house

Keep in mind that although these pictures are more concrete in nature, they may not necessarily look anything like the items the student has experienced. For example, whose car looks exactly like the one above?

  • Non-picture Producers (hard, fun)
hard fun

The majority of the words we use on a daily basis are not picture producers.

  • Only 10% of the 330 most frequently used words by preschoolers are picture producers.

  • Examples of non-picture producers: Yes, thank you, why, not, cold, I, you, do, more, no.

  • Representing and understanding non-picture producers in graphics requires the use of metaphor, memory and a relatively wide experience base.
  • No sentence is a picture producer

I want to show you something.

I want to say something else.

 

 

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