A 10-year-old boy, Flynn, attended a university clinic for an AAC evaluation. Flynn has cerebral palsy and has difficulty communicating. The clinical supervisor asked the students to review the case history and to discuss aspects that were crucial in completing an AAC evaluation. The supervisor then proceeded to review the case with her clinicians and quizzed the students about the most salient features of AAC evaluations. The supervisor stressed to the students that it was very important to conduct a thorough evaluation of the client. She also mentioned that there were certain considerations that needed to be made before the evaluation commenced.
The supervisor mentioned to her clinicians that there are three main methods that are used to represent language in AAC speech output assistive technology systems. She provided the students with several choices and asked them to pick one method from the list that should be considered to represent language in AAC system programming.
1) neologisms
2) semantic compaction
3) semantic paraphasias
4) sensory deprivation