<p>AAC Assessments for Pediatric Clients and Adults with Developmental Disabilities</p><p>Assessment: Population: Purpose/Description: Time: More info: Augmentative and Age: 2 - Adult (with Measures subjective, 60-90 minutes http://www.linguisyste Alternative developmental disabilities functional skills for ms.com/products/produ Communication Profile: only) developing ct/display?itemid=10547 A Continuum of Learning communicative (Kovach, 2009) competence using AAC systems; re-evaluates skill level; and monitors progress. Test of Aided Symbol Children – Adult Assesses symbolic skills. 10-20 minutes http://www.mayer- Performance (TASP; Must be able to point and Provides a starting point johnson.com/tasp Bruno, 2010) follow direction for designing or selecting an appropriate AAC device page set.</p><p>The Communication Emergent Communicators Online tool. Assesses 10-60 minutes (pending Online assessment: Matrix (Rowland, 1990, Individuals who exactly how a child is how many www.communicationmat 1996) experience any type or currently communicative rix.org degree of disability, communicating. behaviors client uses) including severe and Provides a framework Handbook: multiple disabilities. NOT for determining logical https://www.communica appropriate for communication goals. tionmatrix.org/uploads/ individuals who already Also has “user friendly” pdfs/handbook.pdf use some form of version for parents. language meaningfully and fluently.</p><p>Checklist of Adults with multiple and Assesses cognitive and Completed over a 1-2 http://www.scopevic.org Communication severe disabilities communication skills in week period (by 2 .au/wp- Competencies, Revised people who do not different caregivers) content/uploads/2015/0 (Triple C; Bloomberg, 5/5.Triple-C.pdf West, Johnson, & Iacono, demonstrate symbolic 2009) representational ability (e.g., are non-speaking and do no demonstrate comprehension of pictures or photos) Social Networks Individuals age 3 – Adult Determine appropriate 60+ minutes http://www.augcominc.c (Blackstone and Hunt and their family members communication om/index.cfm/social_net Berg, 2012) or caregivers strategies and works.htm technologies for clients to use with their http://www.augcominc.c communication om/newsletters/index.cf partners. m/newsletter_7.pdf</p><p>AAC Assessments for Persons with Aphasia</p><p>Assessment: Population: Purpose/Description: Time: More info: AAC Aphasia Categories Persons with Aphasia Categorizes Pending completion of http://cehs.unl.edu/docu of Communicators communication ability components used for ments/secd/aac/assessm Checklist (Adapted from and patterns of AAC categorization ent/aphasiachecklist.pdf Garrett, K. & Lasker, J, strategy use. Delineates 2005) between partner- https://aacinstitute.org/le dependent gacy/CAAC/2009/Accepte communicators, or those dSubmissions/Garrett,Kat who require cueing or hryn-ValidationoftheAAC- assistance to utilize AphasiaCategories.pdf strategies in addition to or other than speech, and independent communicators, those who can access and utilize strategies without assistance. </p><p>Multimodal Persons with Aphasia Systematically assesses 60+ minutes Stimulus Book: Communication whether people with http://cehs.unl.edu/docu Screening Test – Aphasia severe aphasia can use ments/secd/aac/assessm (Garrett and Lasker, alternative or ent/picture.pdf 1997, 2005) augmentative modalities to communicate via Scoring Form: alternative pictorial http://cehs.unl.edu/docu symbols ments/secd/aac/assessm ent/score.pdf</p><p> http://www.tandfonline.c om/doi/abs/10.1080/026 87030500473411? journalCode=paph20</p><p>Scanning/Visual Must be able to read at Screen visual abilities 5-10 minutes PDF: Field/Print single word level and attention to task http://cehs.unl.edu/docu Size/Attention Screening ments/secd/aac/assessm Task (Garrett and Lasker, ent/wordscan.pdf revised 2005)</p><p>Aphasia Need Persons with Aphasia Informally assess both 30-60 minutes http://cehs.unl.edu/docu Assessment (Garrett and meaningful and ments/secd/aac/assessm Beukelman, revised challenging ent/aphasianeeds.pdf 2006) topics/situations/contex ts/etc for communication</p><p>Social Networks Individuals age 3 – Adult Determine appropriate 60+ minutes http://www.augcominc.co (Blackstone and Hunt and their family members communication m/index.cfm/social_netw Berg, 2012) or caregivers strategies and orks.htm technologies for clients to use with their http://www.augcominc.co communication m/newsletters/index.cfm partners. /newsletter_7.pdf</p>