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Webinar- Beginning an aided AAC system with persons who experience ASD
Joe Reichle, Ph.D.
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Proportion of Nonverbal Children with Autism
- 33% to 50% of children with autism have b t d b lbeen reported as nonverbal
(Bryson, 1996; Lord and Paul, 1997)
-14-20% of children diagnosed with ASD at 2 receiving intensive early intervention
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remain nonverbal
(Lord, Risi and Pickles, 2004)
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Gestural Communication Mode
Gestural-
-contact gestures
-distal gestures
-sign languages
-sign systems
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-finger spelling
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Contact Gesture- The child’s hand touches another person or object
Distal Gesture- The child’s hand does not touch a person or object (e.g., open-h d d h i ti t di t
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handed reach, pointing at a distance, waving)
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Communication Development
1st wordsContact DistalPre-Intentional
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Early Exchanges Between Children and Caregivers
• 5 months: TAKE (receive object from reach)• 6-8 months: GIVE (extend to another and relinquish)( q )• 7-8 months: BID FOR RETURN OF OBJECT
(open and close hand)• 8-11 months: GIVE• 8-13 months: SHOW• 8-10 months: CONVENTIONAL BID FOR RETURN
(e.g., pound fist)
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• 10-11 months: VOCALIZATIONS EMBEDDED INTOGAME
• 9-14 months: POINT
(Bates et al., 1975; Carpenter,Nagell, Tomasello, 1998; Crais, Douglas, & Campbell, 2004; Masur, 1983)
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Children with ASD Tend to Rely on More Primitive Gestures
• Leading
• Pulling
• Manipulating partner’s hand
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Gestural UseAmong Persons with Autism
-Fewer gestures are combined with vocalizations than occur in typicallyvocalizations than occur in typically developing children
-Less pointing-Fewer conventional gestures-Use of Unconventional Behavior to
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Communicate (both verbal and non-verbal)
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Development of Gestures:Why Are They Important?
• Early means to communicate
• One of the first signs of intentionality
• Can be helpful in identifying delays
• Important to intervention planning
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Augmentative Communication and Autism (Mirenda & Erickson, 2000)
1970s and 1980s manual signing1970s and 1980s- manual signing combined with speech = most frequent AAC technique
– (Kiernan, 1983; Matas, Mathy-Laikko,
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( , ; , y ,Beukelman, & Legresley, 1985; Iacono & Parsons, 1986)
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Graphic Symbols- Two- and/or three-dimensional symbols used to represent objects/events and related concepts to produce or receive messages
Two Dimensional• Product Logos
• Photographs• Line Drawings• Traditional Orthography
• Arbitrary symbols
Three Dimensional
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-Parts of Objects
-Laminated Real Objects
-Packaging
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DO NONVERBAL CHILDREN LEARN SPEECH FROM INTRODUCING GESTURAL OR GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION?-
Yoder , Layton, and colleagues -described:
good and poor verbal imitators
– good verbal imitators made greater receptive and
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g g pexpressive language gains with manual signing than poor imitators
– speech development concurrent with signing was much more likely in good verbal imitators
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Speech Production
Best recent evidence from Picture Exchange i ticommunication program
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THE IMPACT OF AIDED LANGUAGE STIMULATION ON COMPREHENSIONAND PRODUCTION
• 3 nonspeaking preschool children with moderate cognitive disabilities
• Children taught to use graphic symbols to request materials needed to participate in desirable activities
• Elicited probes were used to determine whether the children increased their comprehension and production of graphic symbols.
• Results indicated that all three children displayed increased symbol comprehension and production following the implementation of aided language stimulation.
Harris & Reichle (2004)
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Harris & Reichle (2004)
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Jennie: Body Parts Component Analysis
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Comprehension of GraphicSymbols
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Displaying Graphic Symbols
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Traditional Grid Layout
• Vocabulary represented by separate AAC symbols in “boxes”AAC symbols in boxes – Language is taken out of context– “Decontextualized”
• Concepts are presented separately and out of an environmental context
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out of an environmental context
• May impose cognitive demands
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Types of Low Tech Communication Aids
• Board Math Science Reading Lunch
• Book
• Wallet
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Frequently used words/symbols
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WalletsAccordion Wallet
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Book Wallets
Visual Scene Layout• Originally referred to as a “Graphic metaphor”
(Shane, 1998)(Shane, 1998)
• Vocabulary embedded under “hot spot” in visual scene– Digital photo of child’s experiences
• Vocabulary presented in meaningful context– Concepts related visually and conceptually as in life
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Concepts related visually and conceptually as in life
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Navigating Arrays Containing Numerous Symbols
FIXEDFIXED-symbols and items on the board are stationary in a
permanent location
DYNAMIC
-Once a symbol is selected the device a tomaticall displa s a ne page of s mbols a
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automatically displays a new page of symbols-a symbol can be directly linked to another page (eg. much like a windows operating system).
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Multiple Sheets
Level 2
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Level 1
I’m finished.
I need help!
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Level 3
This is fun.DEMO
Why Choose Sign
• Doesn’t require imitation skills (Reichle t l 1991 S db 1993)et.al., 1991; Sundberg, 1993)
• Signs are less transient than words (Fulwiler & Fouts, 1976)
• May overcome negative history associated with speech ( Sundberg & Partington
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with speech ( Sundberg & Partington, 1998).
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Wendt Systematic Review-Sign (2009)N=21 studies with evidence better than inconclusive
(primarily single subject design)
-highly effective in targeting receptive speech-highly effective in targeting receptive speech.
-strong evidence supporting speech gains (given imitative skills).
-Sign places greater communicative burden on partners of signer
Wendt Systematic Review-Graphic Symbols
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-Essentially same results although on a smaller number of investigations (N=15)
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Efficiency from the interventionist’s perspective
• How difficult is it going to be to implement th i t ti ?the intervention?
• How easy is the response to prompt?• How quickly will the challenging behavior
diminish?• To what extent will the child’s new
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response be maintained?• To what extent will the response be
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The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)• Bondy and Frost
E h i I iti t d C i ti U i• Emphasizes Initiated Communication Using Graphic Symbols
• Does Not Require Expensive or Complex Materials (low tech)
• Determine what the child persistently wants.
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• NO VERBAL PROMPTS!
• The desired object is given to the learner every time it is requested.
• Phase 1: The Physical Exchange
Procedures for PECS
– Teacher physically guides the learner to release the picture in to the teacher’s hand.
– As soon as the learner releases the picture, the teacher gives her or him the desired object.
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– Fade physical guidance to release, but keep open hand cue.
– Fade open hand cue.
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• Phase 2: Increasing spontaneity
Procedures for PECS (cont.)
– Learner produces picture exchange using a variety of pictures.
– Pictures are available one at a time. Continue environmental manipulation.
– Fade teacher proximity.
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– Move communication board farther away from learner.
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• Phase 3: Simultaneous discrimination
Procedures for PECS (cont.)
– The communication board is presented with 2 pictures: 1 of a preferred object; 1 of a nonpreferred or neutral object.
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• Phase 4: Building sentence structure
Procedures for PECS (cont.)
– The learner is taught to request using the phrase “I want ___________.”
I want
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I WANT
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Why is Matching Important?
When a person produces a communicative act using a graphic symbol they are matching that symbol to a real object or event in the environment
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Identity Match to Sample
• Pointing to a choice that is identical the l A t iti d isample . Across opportunities randomize
choices Sample
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Identity Match to Sample
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Identity Match to Sample
• Randomly swap samples
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• Some beginning communicators have diffi lt l i t t h t ldifficulty learning to match-to-sample
• Fortunately, there is a range of strategies for teaching a person to match-to-sample (correspond symbols to
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(correspond symbols to items/events/actions)
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Testing Simple Discrimination
Test Procedure:
1) Designate one symbol as correct 2) Present two –three symbols to child 3) Provide reinforcement if child chooses either 4) Shuffle symbols 5) Represent the symbols
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5) Represent the symbols 6) Continue to reinforce selection of same item
during each opportunity
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Opportunity #1
• Child can select either
• Child picks dog
• Child gets reinforced
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Opportunity #2
• Correct choice is still dog
• Child picks car
• Child gets no reinforcement
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Collecting Data
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Visual Matching
• Identity matching - the learner matches a choice to a sample with exactly the samechoice to a sample with exactly the same perceptual features– e.g. matches a photo of a dog to another
identical photo of the dog
• Nonidentity matching - the learner matches a sample to a perceptually
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matches a sample to a perceptually different choice– e.g. matching a photo of a ball to a real object
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Suppose a learner can discriminate but not match
• Stimulus building/shaping
Across successful opportunities, gradually build a distracter so the learner continues to choose the target symbol under more
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to choose the target symbol under more difficult circumstances.
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Oddity (Stimulus Fading)
.See Wilkinson et.al (2002)
• five individuals with severe mental retardation
• They failed the identity matching task
• They succeeded in an oddity task
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• This in turn helped improve their identity matching performance
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Oddity
• Have the student identify the one object th t i diff t f th th h ithat is different from the other choices
• Across successful opportunities, reduce the number of choices in the array until only 2 remain a correct and an incorrect
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only 2 remain a correct and an incorrect choice
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Oddity Example (1 of 8)
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Oddity Example (2 of 8)
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Oddity Example (3 of 8)
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Oddity Example (4 of 8)
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Oddity Example (5 of 8)
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COFFEE
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General Rules in Implementing Communicative Replacement
• Don’t continue to reinforce the challenging behavior.
• Try to minimize the probability that a challenging/more• Try to minimize the probability that a challenging/more informal behavior is emitted prior to the emission of a socially acceptable communicative alternative.
• If possible, select a communicative alternative that is already part of the learner’s existing communicative repertoire.
Determine how discriminable the use of the new
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• Determine how discriminable the use of the new communicative alternative needs to be.
• Consider the natural maintaining contingencies offered by the natural environment.
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Request Assistance
• A socially acceptable request for i t ith diffi lt it ti itassistance with a difficult item or activity
– Upon encountering a difficult puzzle, Matt says “Help.”
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Request Assistance (cont.)
• This strategy can be implemented when theThis strategy can be implemented when the interventionist is certain that providing unsolicited assistance reduces emission of challenging behavior
• It can be implemented to gain access to desired items/activities
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• To escape more aversive items and activities
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Request Assistance (cont.)
Nonpreferred/Difficult Tasks
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Teaching “Requesting Assistance”
• Provide unsolicited assistance in presence of provoking activityprovoking activity
-but-• in the absence of challenging behavior.• Just prior to delivering unsolicited assistance,
prompt a request.• Gradually fade prompts
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Gradually fade prompts• Ensure that requests for assistance are used
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Teaching Explicit Requesting(less discrete trial approach)
• Identify a variety of different situations t d b l i th fencountered by a learner in the course of
a day.
• For each situation, select a “key” symbol to be introduced.
• Just prior to presenting the item/activity
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• Just prior to presenting the item/activity, prompt the learner to select a single corresponding symbol.
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Freeplay
ACTIVITY SYMBOL
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Storytimestory
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Snacksnack
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Discriminating Between Explicit Symbols
• Begin combining two of the target symbols in a choice array at a time that is typically associatedchoice array at a time that is typically associated with participation in either activity
SNACK PLAY
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• In this array, either symbol selection could be considered correct
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• Once a symbol has been selected, offer both of the items corresponding to the symbol choicesthe items corresponding to the symbol choices.
• To be correct, the learner must select the activity that corresponds to the symbol selected.
• In this step, the learner actually specifies the sample by selecting the symbol. If he selects the item corresponding to the symbol, he has
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• Increase the size of the array of available symbols in the choice array.
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- ALTERNATIVELY -
Explicit Requesting (cont.)
• Engage the learner in the activity
• Interrupt the activity
• Deliver the prompt in order for the learner to re-establish the activity (interrupted behavior chain)
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behavior chain).
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INTERRUPTED BEHAVIOR CHAINS
1. Select graphic symbols or manual signs for the target requests.
2 Begin the routine2. Begin the routine.3. Interrupt the routine at the predetermined points
using strategies in Assessment Step 4. Do not use verbal cues.
4.Opportunity 1.a. Wait 5-15 seconds for the individual to initiate
communication.b. If the individual initiates, continue the chain.c. If the individual does not initiate, model or
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,physically prompt the desired communicationbehavior.
d. Wait 5-15 seconds.
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