Bernhard Schieber

Communicative Competence in AAC

Knowledge

AAC communicative competence combines linguistic, operational, social, and strategic domains. Environmental support and partner behavior affect how these capacities become usable in practice. Assessment should examine participation in real settings rather than infer competence from device operation, speaking rate, or one isolated skill.

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Editorial orientation · Family

Tool

In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.

Editorial orientation · Category

Intervention Methods & Practices

Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.

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