Use these Informal Assessment for Nonverbal, Nonspeaking, or Emergent Communicators and AAC Users and AAC Planning and Data Tracking Sheets to improve your evaluations and treatment for emergent communicators and AAC users.

1) Informal Assessment for Nonverbal or Emergent Communicators and AAC Users
This 16 page informal assessment resource (print + digital) covers the following areas of Speech and Language for students who are no speaking, nonverbal, or emergent communicators:

• Quick Background info + Communication History
• Quick Play, Social, and Emotional Skills
• Quick Cognitive Skills
• Quick Sensory Checklist
• Behavior Management Checklist
• Inventory of daily participation functioning in school routines + activities
• Receptive Language Checklist
• Expressive Language Checklists- basics, AAC access, communicative intent inventory, vocabulary inventory, syntax/morphology
• Speech Inventory (including vowels, consonants, non-speech vocalizations, etc.)
• Jargon, Echolalia, and Gestalts
• Daily Communication Opportunities
• AAC Trial Recommendation Checklist
• Teacher Questionnaire
• Parent Questionnaire

This informal speech and language assessment is appropriate for preschool to high school students as well as post-graduates with a variety of disabilities who have not yet demonstrated mastery of speech and language skills typically acquired during the birth- age three developmental period. The information gathered using this resource can help you to gather data needed to initiate a formal AAC evaluation or prepare to trial an AAC system that is appropriate for your student (depending on your school's requirements and AAC options).

Digital compatibility is best on a most popular laptop/desktop vs. tablet apps. Please note: The original, copyrighted text is not editable.

2) AAC Planning and Data Tracking Sheets

• 1 Weekly AAC Planner
• 1 Daily AAC Data Tracker- Track modeling as well as the student's produced words/phrases, the context for the word or phrase, the communicative function, and the level of support provided.
• 2 Yearly Word/Phrase Planners- 1 with a list for the whole year and 1 month-by-month
• 2 Planners for individual words/phrases- 1 by activity and 1 by context
• A version of the daily, weekly, and yearly planners adapted for non-school settings or older students/adults. Terms like "student", "class", etc. modified to be appropriate for a variety of settings and ages.
  
  

The included east to use but comprehensive AAC planner and data tracker allow you to feel confident about targeting and reporting on communication goals with AAC during speech therapy and allow you to include the whole team in the data collection process!

• First, teachers, SLPs, and classroom support staff develop specific weekly AAC modeling plans for their classroom. A clear plan sets expectations and exposes your AAC using students to the consistent and repeated models that we know they need. Use the Weekly AAC Planner for a whole class or individual AAC users.
• Then, use the Daily Tracker to document what was modeled that day in what contexts and how the student used AAC in speech therapy or in the classroom, cafeteria, etc. that day. This daily tracker can also be used as an AAC device trial data sheet. Easily keep track of communicative functions and the level of support needed for language production with AAC. This can be used in the classroom for all staff to easily record data and during speech therapy sessions. This collected data will help you to easily report numerical data and comments for IEP progress reports, present levels, device trial reports, and more!
• Finally, sharing daily data with parents and caregivers is as easy as sending a copy home with the student or sharing on your school's web based communication system! As a bonus, blank forms or forms preloaded with targets can be sent home with the student for carryover of communication skills outside of school.

********If you are purchasing for a school district, special education or speech therapy department, clinic, private practice, or any other team with multiple users: you MUST purchase a license for each individual user. Additional licenses are available at a discounted price.