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Core words - What are they?
Download well known core vocabulary lists:
100 Words of Highest Frequency from an Interview with an AAC User. Provided by Prof Bruce Baker, Portland College, UK, March 2003
Five Hundred Words Most Frequently Used in
Children’s Writing
AAC Institute General Core Vocabulary
The list includes all morphological
forms of high frequency general use words, even though all forms are not
used with high frequency.
Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary:
220 words, are used for approximately 70% of children’s reading and 60% of
adult reading. (95 early reading nouns are included in the list)
Core vocabulary –Articles, websites and other vocabulary resources
Core Vocabulary and the AAC Performance Report - AAC Institute The AAC Institute General Core Vocabulary has been created based on a principled assessment of various vocabulary frequency studies
CORE VOCABULARY IS THE SAME ACROSS ENVIRONMENTS
by
Bruce Baker.
In the past century, linguists and second language teachers
have discovered that a core vocabulary of fewer than a thousand words can
provide semantic coverage for nearly every idea expressible in a human
language.
Defining Our Terms: Core Vocabulary
by Robin
Hurd
When putting together an AAC system,
people sometimes call whatever words they choose to put on the system the
child’s “core vocabulary” even if those words are mainly personal names,
specific toys, food choices, or pre-stored messages
How far will 100
Words Get You?
Catee
asks ‘How many words does it take to read Macbeth?’ He finds that by just
learning 9 words a person could read 21% of Macbeth, and that it would be
possible to read 80% of Macbeth by knowing only the 500 most common words.
Normal Language Development with AAC Applications by Gail van Tatenhove.
This 11 page handout
reviews normal language development, with an eye towards using normal
language development to assist in the selection of CORE VOCABULARY for
initial AAC systems which emphasize the development of normal, generative
language.
Selecting and
Organizing Vocabulary for AAC Users
DynaVox Systems, LLC,
The selection of functional and motivational
vocabulary is critical for effective use of an
augmentative communication device. Natural speech is
automatic, allowing most speakers to enter communication situations without
much prior thought to the words, phrases, and stories they will use.
Individuals with severe communication disabilities are not able to create
and produce messages as easily, and therefore rely greatly on the vocabulary
provided by others.
'Vocabulary Features in AAC' from University of Washington, Seattle
1) Vocabulary
Size
2)
Accessibility of Vocabulary
3) Type of
Possible Utterances
4) Pre-Selected
Vocabulary Sets
Voice of
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