Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design

Strategy Step Description Model EA models one or more AAC symbols during a communication turn using the iPad based AAC system. Encourage EA provides a time delay, or wait time, until child takes a communication turn or five seconds. Respond EA responds to a child communication turn with an AAC recast by repeating some portion of the child’s utterance and attempts to expand the utterance and models one or more AAC symbols during a communication turn using the iPad-based AAC system Read EA reads a page or page spread in the book and uses ModelER Talk EA makes a comment or asks a question using ModelER Table 3. MODELER Implementation checklist Conclusion For children who are minimally verbal and use AAC it is important to develop an expressive language system and to have an appropriate language learning environment. The iPad combined with a communication app has become a very popular AAC system, creating more opportunities for these children to have access to expressive language. A number of useful resources have been introduced in this chapter from various web sources. Specifically, the naturalistic communication intervention MODELER has been introduced. In considering the language learning environment of children, we know about the importance of language input described across general language acquisition (Gallway & Richards, 1994; Gerken, 2008; Hart & Risley, 1995, Tomasello, 2003), sign language (Bavelier et al., 2003; Newport & Supalla, 2000), and AAC (Goosens, 37