The communication partner points to/touches symbols on an AAC system as they are speaking, so that learners experience how their AAC system can be used to communicate.

The ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in words.

Helps beginning readers understand how letters are linked to sounds to form letter-sound correspondence and spelling patterns.

The ability to hear and manipulate sounds in oral language such as rhyming, counting syllables in words (does not include print awareness).

Using an online application (e.g., skype), provide AAC support, information, and development of partner skills. The process includes identifying a need or goal, learning strategies to address the goal, and improving practices and making adaptations until the need is met.

An interactive reading experience for those learning to read and communicate at the same time. Someone reads the text and encourages communication by supporting the emergent reader with communication and meaning making.

The communication partner acts as a scribe to write the learner's thoughts while modeling the process of writing. Predictable chart writing and dictated writing are forms of shared writing. Using a speech-generating device to recall pre-stored words that are printed/transcribed to a document by either a communication partner or computer is another example of shared writing.