Transcript PowerPoint Voice Output Communication Aid

26 Toddlers’ Highest Frequency Words
Banajee, DiCarlo & Stricklin, 2003
Combined with Toddlers’ 80 First Words
Gail Van Tatenhove, NLDAAC
And More Core Words
British National Corpus, Balandin, Hill, Stuart, Marvin,
UK Nat Lit., Dolch, Ogden, Israel
•
Gail Van Tatenhove reports that users prefer single
sheet displays to sets of pages they have to navigate.
• She recommends 300 to 400+ permanently available
core words.
• With a starter set of at least 100 core words.
• If a user cannot access 100 words on a personal
board then supplemental boards are used.
• Gail got very positive results using a starter set of
100+ core words with 24 individuals with severe
cognitive disabilities.
The Pixon Project: Supporting an AAC Language Development Curriculum
Gail M. Van Tatenhove, MS, CCC-SLP www.vantatenhove.com
Tracking Outcomes
Additional Outcomes
Pixon Project Kit materials used in 4 adult
programs and 2 classrooms (severe
cognitive disabilities)
Personal AAC systems = P-AACS
January 2007 0/24 individuals had any PAACS
January 2008 24/24 individuals had Pixonbased P-AACS
 22/24 had manual communication
boards only
 2/24 had devices with matching manual
communication boards (1 Vantage, 1 ECO)
 Made nearly a “seamless” transition to
the Unity® program
Vocabulary acquisition in 12 months
 2/24 = over 100 core words
 8/24 = 76 - 100 core words
 10/24 = 51 - 75 core words
 3/24 = 26 - 50 core words
 1/24 = 1 - 25 core words
Syntactical acquisition
 8/24 - primarily 1-word utterances and word
strings
 11/24 - consistent 2 word utterances
 5/24 - consistent 3+ word utterances
Morphology acquisition
 all beginning to mark morphology IF available
on his/her board (10 people have morphology
markers)
•
Visual or motor impaired users may need a personal
board with fewer words.
• And they are good for first time responders and
early language practice.
• But assumed inability to learn is a bad excuse for
limiting vocabulary.
• Gail makes sure that a poster with all 400 core
words goes on the wall in every class,
• So the teacher knows which words to paraphrase
her lessons into and elicit responses from.
Note on bracketed words in titles of slides that follow e.g. 20(26)
Gail’s 20-cell board has 26 words as some cells have 2 words e.g. NOT/DON’T.
Ours are to have sound added for speech output so each word needs own cell.
Based on Gail Van Tatenhove’s Pixon series of
language boards, with more words from Gail’s clinical
practice, and
• 26 Highest Frequency Words that 2-3 year olds use for
96.3% of everything they say (Banajee 2003)
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I
mine
you
finished
gone
look
stop
it
your
not
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see
want
what
did
do
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on
again
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off
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ready
all
that
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different
good
more
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mine
you
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Toddlers’ Top 26 and First 80 Words
100 British National Corpus Top Words
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347 Adults Top Words (Sue Balandin,)
Some UK National Literacy Strategy Words
• 174 Stuart Elder Adults
•
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Researched by Brighton University, 1996
300 Mark Israel
152 Word Frequency
• Dolch
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On a VOCA* we could have ’d, ’ll, ’m, ’re, ’s and ’ve
once each ready to add to pronouns
 They don’t sound right as separate items in
PowerPoint.
 8 are missing from following slide, all are on the slide
after that – it’s a space issue.
 We wanted negatives of all helper verbs but only
room for the ones where a separate ’nt wouldn’t
sound right – can’t, don’t, aren’t, weren’t.
 ’nt works well added to could, did, does, had, has,
have, should and would.

*VOCA = Voice Output Communication Aid
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we
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SELVES
us
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them
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hello
no
please
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The next slides are designs for more words with
7 or 9 changeable non-core words on Slide 1 for
talking on a topic without navigating, and
 A second slide for alphabet, word parts, numbers,
colours, time and date words, more verbs and
adjectives and nouns that are core.
 Users can add slides with their own words.
 Navigating is easier to more concrete words than the
abstract core.

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I’d
I’m
me
my
you
you’ll
you’ve
yours
he
he’ll
him
she
she’ll
her
it
its
we’d
we’re
our
us
they’d
they’re
their
them
2
I
I’ll
I’ve
mine
SELF
you’d
you’re
your
SELVES
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his
she’d
she’s
hers
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we
we’ll
we’ve
ours
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they’ll
they’ve
theirs
person
3
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am
are
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be
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break
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mind
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man
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name
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guys clean goes open
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boy colour gone opened
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child come
got
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fast
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worst
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street
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lot
word
write
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weekend month year morning afternoon night
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grow pretend
wives husbands
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hide
pull
couple couples
bet
hug
push
doctor
pet
bite imagine quit
teacher class brings
join
ran
student aide
called jumped relax
therapist driver
catch
kiss remember
climb laugh
run
hello
hi
comes leaves
sat
hey
bye
c’cated
lift
share
no
nah
c’cates looked sing
yes
yep
c’c’ting makes spell
yeah
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cook match spelled
ok
maybe
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dance meant
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draw meet stops
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swim
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awesome wicked
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tells
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waits
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mean
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new
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short
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actual
bloody
dirty
kinds
lots
loud
mostly
bigger biggest
air
dog
easier easiest arm dollars
farther farthest bag
door
harder hardest bath
duck
higher highest battery ease
kinder kindest bed example
larger largest bird
eyes
littler littlest breakfast face
longer longest cake finger
lower lowest catholic floor
meaner meanest cave
food
nearer nearest chair
form
newer newest city
game
nicer nicest c’c’tion garage
older oldest computer hair
prettier prettiest cookies hand
shorter shortest country head
slower slowest couples homes
smaller smallest course horse
courses houses
overly thirsty crew housing
probable tired
crib
jobs
quiet
true
cup
juice
smart
ugly difference life
strong weak difficulty line
tall
wild dinner lunch
mouth
music
noise
plug
pop
pot
room
sea
shoes
skin
story
sun
swing
table
towel
toys
trees
turtles
TV
water
years
We narrated the PowerPoint stories we made for
2008 International AAC Month.
 A speaker icon appeared for each sound.
 In PowerPoint 2007 (Windows) we noticed an
option on the Format menu is ‘Change Picture’.
 In PowerPoint for Mac there’s a button to set the
speaker icon transparency to 100%.
 We had pictures of core words in our stories.
 We put sounds on top of these words and swapped
the speaker icons for transparent Gifs.

Click on a word to say it!
Note: this is the no-sounds version of this PowerPoint
the
1
This will show Piggy which words are
in each word group.
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Click on a word to say it!
Note: this is the no-sounds version of this PowerPoint
Toddlers’ Top 25 Words
More Toddlers’ Early Words
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on the frames.
See what you can say with
just these few words.
The Winning Ticket, June 2008 (Slide 8) www.aacawareness.org
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