By Joan Bruno, PhD. A PCS based easy-to-use tool for assessing symbolic skills. Design or select an AAC device, boards sets and establish AAC intervention goals, strategies, basals and ceilings. Subtests for size, number, grammatical encoding, categorization and syntactic performance. For kids adults with functional pointing. Administration time, 10-20 min. Reproducible test forms.

• Serves as a tool to benchmark progress in aided communication performance
• Uses Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) and complements other components of the AAC assessment process
• Includes subtests, which can be administered over a period of sessions to test understanding of:
• Symbol size and number
• Grammatical encoding
• Categorization
• Syntactic performance
• Establishes basals and ceilings for each subtest
• Appropriate for children through adults who have the physical ability to function by pointing
• Saves time with an administration time of just 10 to 20 minutes
• Scoring procedures are objective and rapid
• Test forms are reproducible
• Includes customizable worksheets for a variety of practice exercises

Includes reproducible subtests (with basals and ceilings), case study examples, manual, answer sheet (for completion during testing) and assessment folder.