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Children, Young People and Adults Who Use AAC

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Individuals using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) are heterogenous and assessment of individual strengths and needs is critical for appropriate interventions and positive outcomes. General trends have been noted in individuals using AAC, including taking fewer conversational turns, responding more frequently than initiating communication, using a restricted range of communicative functions, and experiencing communication breakdowns. Providing appropriate vocabulary, modeling pragmatic functions on an individual’s AAC system, direct intervention and communication partner instruction can be effective in improving pragmatic skills in individuals using AAC.

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Senner, J.E. (2021). Children, Young People and Adults Who Use AAC. In: Cummings, L. (eds) Handbook of Pragmatic Language Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74985-9_25

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