("LOSS")►Linguistic competence - Receptive and expressive language skills of one's native language

- Linguistic code unique to AAC system (what do the icons/buttons look like?)►Operational competence - Technical skills required to operate AAC system accurately and efficiently

- Immediate need to develop this skill as quickly as possible (teach competencies as early as possible to habituate them)►Social competence - Skills of social interaction: initiating, maintaining, developing, and terminating communication interactions

- Requires knowledge of sociolinguistic and sociorelational aspects of communication

►Strategic competence - Compensatory strategies used by people who rely on AAC to deal with functional limitations associated with AAC

- Unfamiliar listeners, resolving/repairing communication breakdowns, compensating for slow speaking rate

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