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Communicative Competence: Wrap-up

August 31, 2021 NWACS
Communicative Competence: Wrap-up

Communicative Competence: Wrap-up

Wrapping up our exploration of communicative competence in AAC.

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Communicative Competence: Self-Advocacy

August 29, 2021 NWACS
Communicative Competence: Self-Advocacy

Communicative Competence: Self-Advocacy

A closer look at the communicative competence skill area of self-advocacy competence.

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Communicative Competence: Emotional

August 25, 2021 NWACS
Communicative Competence: Emotional

Communicative Competence: Emotional

A closer look at the communicative competence skill area of emotional competence.

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Communicative Competence: Psychosocial

August 21, 2021 NWACS
Communicative Competence: Psychosocial

Communicative Competence: Psychosocial

A closer look at the communicative competence skill area of psychosocial competence.

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Communicative Competence: Strategic

August 17, 2021 NWACS
Communicative Competence: Strategic

Communicative Competence: Strategic

A closer look at the communicative competence skill area of strategic competence.

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Communicative Competence: Social

August 13, 2021 NWACS
Communicative Competence: Social

Communicative Competence: Social

A closer look at the communicative competence skill area of social competence.

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Communicative Competence: Operational

August 9, 2021 NWACS
Communicative Competence: Operational

Communicative Competence: Operational

A closer look at the communicative competence skill area of operational competence.

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Communicative Competence: Linguistic

August 5, 2021 NWACS
Communicative Competence: Linguistic

Communicative Competence: Linguistic

A closer look at the communicative competence skill area of linguistic competence.

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Communicative Competence

August 1, 2021 NWACS
Communicative Competence

Communicative Competence

What skills does a person need to be able to say anything they want to anyone they want anywhere they want? A collection of integrated skills often referred to as the “communicative competencies”. This is the first post in a series on communicative competence. It summarizes all the different skill areas needed to be an effective communicator.

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AACademics: August 2019

August 26, 2019 NWACS
AACademics AAC Research Summary: Teaching Partner-Focused Questions to Individuals Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication to Enhance Their Communicative Competence by Light, Binger, Agate, and Ramsay (1999)

AACademics AAC Research Summary: Teaching Partner-Focused Questions to Individuals Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication to Enhance Their Communicative Competence by Light, Binger, Agate, and Ramsay (1999)

AACademics: Each month, NWACS Contributor Julia highlights hot topics in AAC Research in a format that makes for some lighter reading and helps us apply current research to our AAC learners. 

This month Julia summarizes a study that looks at teaching AAC users to ask partner-focused questions and measuring the effect on how other’s view their Communicative Competence.

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