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Learning about the Review Vocabulary Menu

REVIEW VOCABULARY allows you to review all the vocabulary you have stored in your device.

A Vocabulary Review does not review words in the Dictionary.

When you select this option, you can type in a word or phrase and your device will search to see if that word or phrase is stored. If it finds the word or phrase it will show you a list where the word or phrase is stored. 

The word or phrase must be stored on a key. Your device will not search Notebooks, Reminders or the Speech or Word Prediction dictionaries.

If you enter the word, "hi", your device will find and list where it is stored.

If you have "Hi, Joe", "Hi, Carol", "Hi, Group" stored on keys you must type "Hi, Joe" into your search.

You can search for stand-alone phrases, too.

For example, let’s say "Come back" is stored in a number of places. You can enter “Come back” as your search and your device will show you where to find it. 

However, if "Come back" is part of a larger sentence, your device will not find it. You must type in the whole sentence, not just the phrase.

This allows you to review vocabulary on your device display.

This allows you to review vocabulary on your device display and hear it spoken through your device speakers.

If your device has an internal computer, this option saves your vocabulary review to a folder on the internal computer. You can save the review to a pre-set folder or choose a different folder.

You can also use this option to save a vocabulary review to a USB drive. Then you can transfer the file from the USB drive to  an external computer.

Data Logging refers to the Language Activity Monitor (LAM) in your device.

As a clinician or teacher you can use the LAM capabilities in a PRC device to analyze your clients' language activities.  This can be helpful for clinical intervention, outcomes measurement and research. 

Data Logging must be ON for the device to record any language activity data. 

You should also set the CLOCK menu to the current year, month and date and the correct time. 

You can tell if there is data to be analyzed by looking at the Clear Data Log key.  If there is a number displayed on the key, (e.g., 134 Bytes, or 400 Bytes, etc.) then there is data available to be analyzed.  If there is no number on the key, you will have to turn Data Logging On and have the client generate some data.

You will save the language data to your USB drive.  You can then download the Data Log file from the USB drive onto your computer and save it as a word processing document.

Once you have accumulated some language data, you need to save it to your USB drive.

Make sure you have the USB drive plugged in

·        Open the REVIEW VOCABULARY MENU.

·        Select the Removable Media folder.

·        If you are asked to select a folder to save the LAM data in, select one or create one and select OK.

·        Spell a name for this data and select OK.

·        You see a yellow box telling you the data is saved. Select OK.

·        When the log is saved, remove the USB drive from your device.

·        Select Clear Data Log in the REVIEW VOCABULARY MENU. This erases the data you just saved.  If you want to accumulate more data, make sure Data Logging is On.

·        Plug your USB drive into your computer and copy or move the LAM file to your computer.

An Example of a Data Log

        ### CAUTION ###

The following data represents personal communication.

Please respect privacy accordingly.

Language Activity Monitor Springboard LAM-2

Version 2.00

Prentke Romich Company

*[YY-MM-DD=05-06-07]*

09:47:15 SEM "like "

09:47:22 SEM "read "

09:47:24 SEM "put "

09:47:28 SEM "please "

09:47:39 SEM "I "

09:47:41 SEM "eat "

09:47:48 SEM "I "

09:47:49 SEM "feel "

09:47:58 ACT "happy "

09:48:15 SEM "you "

09:48:17 SEM "feel "

09:48:18 ACT "happy "

09:48:22 SEM "I "

09:48:23 SEM "want "

09:48:24 SEM "drink "

09:48:27 ACT "water "

09:48:44 SEM "you "

09:48:45 SEM "go "

09:48:47 ACT "outside. "

09:49:05 SEM "my "

09:49:07 SEM " "

09:49:16 PAG "Maria "

An Example of CTL Information

01:52:01 CTL "Switch User Area from Unity 45 Full to Unity 84 Single Hit"

01:52:14 CTL "Switch User Area from Unity 84 Single Hit to Unity 45 Full"

About the LAM Data

When you look at the Data Log, the first thing you see is the year, month and date of this particular log. 

The next item you notice is the Time Stamp. Time is presented in a 24-hour format.

Following the time Stamp is the SOURCE of language event.  Source codes are in capital letters.  The following source codes are currently valid:

ACT (Activity Row)

CTL (Control – this supplies information on non-language key activations the client makes.)

PAG (Page)

SEM (Semantic Compaction – Minspeak® and Unity®)

SPE (Spelling)

WPR (Word Prediction)

DWP (Derivative from Word Prediction).

Any characters spaced more than 0.2 seconds apart are considered as separate language events. 

In the example at the top of the facing page you can see that the device user formed sentences and used Pages and Activities.  In the second example, the user changed MAPs. These were not language events, so you see the CTL source code, but from them you can see that the user knows how to change MAPs. 

More information about LAM data and LAM tools is available on the Web at

http://www.aacinstitute.org/

The Icon Tutor options are available only with Unity MAPs. 

The Icon Tutor helps you to learn the sequences where specific words are stored.

For example, suppose you want to know where the word “Watch” is stored.

Search Icon Tutor

1. Open the REVIEW VOCABULARY MENU.

2. Select the Search Icon Tutor option.

3. You see your spelling page. Type in the word you want to search for, in this case, “Watch”.

4. The Icon Tutor searches its database and shows you all the sequences where the word

“watch” is used. You can write down the sequences for later use (or memorize them). The

word “Watch” is used in two different sequences. Some words will be used in more

sequences; some in less or none.

About the “Tutor Auto-Update” Option

Your device automatically sets this option to On or Off according to the vocabulary you are

using (Unity, Word Power, etc.). In most cases there will be no reason to change this setting.

However, if you find that updating your icon tutor is taking a very long time, you can turn this

option to OFF.

REMEMBER! If you turn Auto-Tutor-Update to Off and then make changes to your

vocabulary you must select Update Icon Tutor first to save your changes. Any new searches

will now include the updated changes.

Icon Tutor Advanced Settings

This option is a way to streamline an Icon Tutor update by excluding those pages and activities

that don’t generate vocabulary. Check here if you know a word is in your vocabulary but it isn’t

showing up in Icon Tutor (or Vocabulary Builder or Write with Icons). It may have been

excluded. This option is for the use of MAP developers.

About the ICON TUTOR Key in your Activity Row

All of the Unity overlays have an ICON TUTOR key in the Activity Row. In some

overlays it is in the DEVICE Activity  . When you select this key, you can search the Icon Tutor  from your overly without having to go to the Toolbox and the REVIEW VOCABULAY MENU. Just type in the word you are looking for and select OK.

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