AAC Assessment
Getting Started
Learn to apply a detailed assessment process—and utilize handy assessment tools—to make informed, client-centered AAC recommendations to improve your patients’ or students’ ability to communicate.
-from ASHA Professional Development
Student-Centered AAC Assessment
Want to learn more about AAC assessment and how to get started? Join Saltillo & guest presenter Heather Miller Schwarz, M.S., CCC-SLP as she discusses the consideration of the strengths and needs of an individual in order to identify the features of an appropriate AAC system.
- from Infinitec
SETT Framework
The SETT Framework is a four-part model intended to promote collaborative decision-making in all phases of assistive technology service design and delivery from consideration through implementation and evaluation of effectiveness. SETT is an acronym for Student, Environments, Tasks, and Tools. Click here for more information and here for forms to help you complete the framework.
The Northwest Augmentative Communication Society (NWACS) blog has a great "where to start" that you can use to help guide the evaluation process. Part 1 highlights free tools that may be useful when evaluating early/emerging communicators.
Other Sites and Resources
Click on the link below to access resources on assessment from Augmentative and Alternative Communication Assessment by Gail M. Van Tatenhove, PA, MS, CCC-SLP.
This folder includes an AAC Assessment Protocol, case history forms for pre-assessment, picture assessment, and needs assessment as well as helpful articles.
The Community of Practice also found this helpful sites:
Assessment and Evaluation - Prentke Romich
Standardized Assessment in AAC Evaluations - PRC Saltillo
Assessment Forms - PrAACtical AAC
See the main AAC page for information on funding, including what to include in your evaluation report.