CSDS 109 Final Study Guide
QUESTIONS WELL ANSWERED
GRADED A+ 2025/2026
Augmentative Communication - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Refers to means of non-oral
communication that enhance and
enlarge available, although deficient, oral speech and language.
For example, adults and, sadly, sometimes children, in the early stages of degenerative
diseases such as Parkinson's, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Multiple Sclerosis,
may have intact speech and language, but may not be able to support the volume of voice
necessary to be understood clearly by others. In these cases, a voice amplification system
may make it possible for them to communicate via oral speech and language for a
longer period of time.
Alternative Communication - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Refers to means of non-oral
communication replace absent or minimal oral language skills
No-tech aided communication - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Include any visual, tangible or auditory
aid that assists
a person in communicating that does not involve a battery, or external power of any
kind. No-tech systems may be independently used or partner-assisted, depending
on the child's motor abilities.
Examples: communication boards that provide pictures the child can
access to communicate, a simple yes/no pair of symbols, writing via
pen and paper or dry-erase boards, or icon exchange systems, the most commonly
known and used being the Picture Exchange Communication System, or PECS.
,a simple picture board that the child can access through pointing, and a clear eye-gaze
board that a child can access simply through directed eye gaze. This is a
partner-assisted type of AAC system. The person you see looking through the space
in the eye gaze board is the partner. The child would look at the symbol, and the partner
would be able to see where the child's gaze is directed; the symbols are also on the
partner's side.
Low-tech aided communication - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Are simple devices "dedicated" to
serving only as
communication aids. Low-tech devices usually do provide digitized speech output.
The displays on low-tech devices are static, meaning that the display has to be changed
manually. There are many commonly used low-tech devices, and low-tech AAC systems
also include type-and-talk devices, pocket talkers, and voice amplifiers.
Static Display - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A presentation set up to run without a presenter for the
information of
casual viewers
High Tech Aided Communication - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Refers to comprehensive, all-inclusive
systems
(called "integrated" systems) that are used not only for communication, but also for climate
and other environmental controls (for example, turning on the air conditioner, television, or
radio) and for accessing the internet for social networking, entertainment, and seeking
Information.
Examples:
Synthesized text-to-speech SGD's
Dynamic display (computerized means of changing display)
, IPad/IPhone technology
communicative intent - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Behavior that is "purposefully directed towards
another person
With intended meaning... requires dual orientation... to both the communication
Partner and the topic or referent"
-When caregivers respond positively to pre intentional behaviors then become
increasingly purposeful
symbolic representation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔An understanding of the relationship between
a symbol
and its referent (The object or concept a symbol stands for)
iconicity - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The degree to which a symbol resembles its referent (a
continuum from most
Iconic, which would be the actual object, to least iconic, which would be the printed word)
*Client should move from most to least iconic
Interface - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Refers to the interface between the user and the system; in
other words, how the
User will access the system
-Depends upon the physical challenges and level of fine and gross motor skills the
Individual may have
Two types of Interface
1.Direct Selection- User directly selects the symbol
2,Indirect selection- The most commonly employed method of indirect selection is
Scanning. The user selects from an array of symbols presented auditory, visually
QUESTIONS WELL ANSWERED
GRADED A+ 2025/2026
Augmentative Communication - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Refers to means of non-oral
communication that enhance and
enlarge available, although deficient, oral speech and language.
For example, adults and, sadly, sometimes children, in the early stages of degenerative
diseases such as Parkinson's, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Multiple Sclerosis,
may have intact speech and language, but may not be able to support the volume of voice
necessary to be understood clearly by others. In these cases, a voice amplification system
may make it possible for them to communicate via oral speech and language for a
longer period of time.
Alternative Communication - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Refers to means of non-oral
communication replace absent or minimal oral language skills
No-tech aided communication - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Include any visual, tangible or auditory
aid that assists
a person in communicating that does not involve a battery, or external power of any
kind. No-tech systems may be independently used or partner-assisted, depending
on the child's motor abilities.
Examples: communication boards that provide pictures the child can
access to communicate, a simple yes/no pair of symbols, writing via
pen and paper or dry-erase boards, or icon exchange systems, the most commonly
known and used being the Picture Exchange Communication System, or PECS.
,a simple picture board that the child can access through pointing, and a clear eye-gaze
board that a child can access simply through directed eye gaze. This is a
partner-assisted type of AAC system. The person you see looking through the space
in the eye gaze board is the partner. The child would look at the symbol, and the partner
would be able to see where the child's gaze is directed; the symbols are also on the
partner's side.
Low-tech aided communication - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Are simple devices "dedicated" to
serving only as
communication aids. Low-tech devices usually do provide digitized speech output.
The displays on low-tech devices are static, meaning that the display has to be changed
manually. There are many commonly used low-tech devices, and low-tech AAC systems
also include type-and-talk devices, pocket talkers, and voice amplifiers.
Static Display - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A presentation set up to run without a presenter for the
information of
casual viewers
High Tech Aided Communication - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Refers to comprehensive, all-inclusive
systems
(called "integrated" systems) that are used not only for communication, but also for climate
and other environmental controls (for example, turning on the air conditioner, television, or
radio) and for accessing the internet for social networking, entertainment, and seeking
Information.
Examples:
Synthesized text-to-speech SGD's
Dynamic display (computerized means of changing display)
, IPad/IPhone technology
communicative intent - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Behavior that is "purposefully directed towards
another person
With intended meaning... requires dual orientation... to both the communication
Partner and the topic or referent"
-When caregivers respond positively to pre intentional behaviors then become
increasingly purposeful
symbolic representation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔An understanding of the relationship between
a symbol
and its referent (The object or concept a symbol stands for)
iconicity - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The degree to which a symbol resembles its referent (a
continuum from most
Iconic, which would be the actual object, to least iconic, which would be the printed word)
*Client should move from most to least iconic
Interface - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Refers to the interface between the user and the system; in
other words, how the
User will access the system
-Depends upon the physical challenges and level of fine and gross motor skills the
Individual may have
Two types of Interface
1.Direct Selection- User directly selects the symbol
2,Indirect selection- The most commonly employed method of indirect selection is
Scanning. The user selects from an array of symbols presented auditory, visually
