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Cystic Fibrosis is a ____________ disease. 

Homozygous is when two different alleles are inherited.

Describe 3 different ways that AAC grid displays can be organized. 

Every week we consider what we are learning about AAC in the context of real or simulated clients and their attainment of knowledge, judgement, and skills needed to develop communicative competence. What are the four domains of competencies that we can use to help us with treatment planning? 

List four different tools that AAC teams might use to help select vocabulary and messages. 

You are working with a pre-teen with cerebral palsy who uses an eye-gaze display.  You are baking cookies. You point to  each symbol on the pre-teens display while talking: (Capitalized words are those words you point to each symbol) You:” Let’s get the COOKIE MIX and the BOWL. I’ll put the COOKIE MIX in the BOWL”-you pretend you can’t open the bag and make exaggerated facial expressions You: ” Uh-oh! I guess I did something wrong? I wonder what the problem is? -you pause- “Oh, I need to OPEN the COOKIE MIX” -you pause The AAC user watches but does not respond.  You: You exaggerate opening the cookie mix and say; ” I need to OPEN  this COOKIE MIX. My BOWL is empty.” What is this an example of? 

Which of the following best characterizes a fixed display? 

Which of the following best describes direct selection in AAC?

List 5 types of aided AAC symbols or representations. 

How does a process get to the ready state?