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Table of Contents For Beginners For Non-Readers For Literate Individuals

Language for Beginners

Putting Symbols Together

• Become a good model. - AAC speakers learn from a good example.
• Teach and learn the patterns, then the specifics.
  • The icon sequences are based on patterns and categories. Many sequences are transparent, or guessable, once you establish the pattern for that type of word. When the communicator learns to put symbols together to produce words, phrases, and sentences, they are on their way to independent communication without limitations.

Writing Sample

Here is a writing sample from Schuyler.

This writing sample is telling about herself when she was a baby and now:

"when I was little I cry. Now I can swim."

This writing sample is a report about rabbits:

"rabbit eat carrot. Rabbit eat flower. It can jump. It can hide and run. (taken from a notebook on device)

Schuyler - Age 6

Some beginning AAC users are ready to start language learning at this level. How can you tell?

Look at the steps we have discussed:

• Establishing Cause and Effect
• Labeling
• Learning What Symbols Mean
• Using Symbols for Meaning
• Putting Words Together
• Learning Categories
• Adding More Concepts to Symbols
• Putting Symbols Together

Suggested starting points

• Unity 45 2-Hit and Unity 45 Full for Vantage and Vanguard
• Unity 84 Sequenced for Vantage and Vanguard
• Unity 128 Sequenced for Pathfinder