
Clinician guide
How to Plan an AAC-Inclusive Communication Assessment
Plan an AAC-inclusive communication assessment by preserving access, modes, vocabulary, positioning, partner skills, backups, consent, assent, and SLP leadership.
Clinical guides, tools, and evidence-informed resources for thoughtful, high-quality ABA care.

Clinician guide
Plan an AAC-inclusive communication assessment by preserving access, modes, vocabulary, positioning, partner skills, backups, consent, assent, and SLP leadership.

Clinician guide
Build a natural communication sample for ABA assessment with opportunities, modes, partners, settings, AAC, supports, partner responses, missingness, and limits.

Clinician guide
Gather a multilingual communication history for planning using languages, dialects, modes, exposure, partners, settings, interpreters, and source-labeled examples.

Clinician guide
Define the question and lead role for a communication assessment by separating SLP, AAC, hearing, medical, motor, education, and ABA scope, authority, and decisions.

Clinician guide
Report ABA skills-assessment results and limits with purpose, methods, tool versions, settings, priorities, opportunities, supports, prompts, refusals, and data.

Clinician guide
Turn ABA skills-assessment findings into shared priorities using client choice, strengths, access, safety, benefit, burden, referrals, and alternatives.

Clinician guide
Interpret ABA skills-assessment results without deficit framing by describing strengths, supports, access barriers, refusals, priorities, and uncertainty.

Clinician guide
Assess high-risk skills without avoidable danger using records, simulation, components, safety gates, consent, assent, stop rules, and emergency routes.

Clinician guide
Respond to no response during an ABA skills assessment by checking opportunity, access, comprehension, health, wait time, refusal, invalidity, and next evidence.

Clinician guide
Separate independent, supported, prompted, and unavailable skill performance by defining supports, prompts, refusals, no response, access failures, and denominators.

Clinician guide
Sample skill performance across contexts and supports with representative settings, people, activities, access, ordinary tools, success cases, coverage, and limits.

Clinician guide
Define opportunities and responses in an ABA skills assessment using genuine activities, accessible forms, timing, supports, prompts, refusals, and invalidity.