Core Word: GO {Freebie}

by The Speech Banana

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Subjects: specialed

Grades: 14,13,1,2,3

Description: Easily introduce Core Word GO with this interactive, digital deck. High-frequency vocabulary or Core vocabulary is the relatively small number of words that constitute the vast majority of what is said in normal communication. With a few hundred words, a person can say over 80% of what is needed (Vanderheiden and Kelso, 1987). MODEL. REITERATE. EXPAND. SHAPE This is the perfect companion to your AAC intervention. Are you a good communication partner? I like to mix and match based on the individual's communication needs, environment and support system. When working with individuals with complex communication needs, it is important to: 💬Arrange the environment or sabotage to contrive situations for communicating. Create interest! 💬Integrate AAC into your verbal language: commenting, question-asking. Create scenarios for a communication partner to ask “wh” questions. 💬Make your communicative input models for language learning. Respond to communication with more communication. If your communication partner gives you a word, give that work back by scaffolding and expanding. In this way, you acknowledge, reinforce and, in some cases, shape the utterance with more language. As in behaviorally rooted Pivotal Response Teaching (PRT), the reinforcement is contextually relevant; reinforcing language with acknowledged language rather than with “Good pointing,” “Good using your device” or “Good talking.” Enjoy & Always Have Fun! Jenn Saliba - The Speech Banana