Exemplary practices for beginning communicators: Implications for AAC/ by Joe Reichle

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1. A continuum of AAC language intervention strategies for beginning communicators --2. Overview of emergence of early AAC behaviors: progression from communicative to symbolic skills --3. The importance of responsivity in developing contingent exchanges with beginning communicators --4. Replacing socially unacceptable behavior with acceptable communication responses --5. Strengthening communicative behaviors for gaining access to desired items and activities --6. Strategies to achieve socially acceptable escape and avoidance --7. "There's more to life than cookies": developing interactions for social closeness with beginning communicators who use AAC --8. Expanding children's early augmented behaviors to support symbolic development --9. Considerations in teaching graphic symbols to beginning communicators --10. Breakdowns and repairs in conversations between beginning AAC users and their partners --11. Visual assessment considerations for the design of AAC systems --12. Choosing for beginning communicators --13. AAC strategies for enhancing the usefulness of natural speech in children with severe intelligibility challenges --14. The role of language comprehension in establishing early augmented conversations.