The essay should be comprised of three main sections. To help you, here is the structure for your essay. Provide an introduction to your essay on facilitating bi-directional communication for individuals on the autism spectrum including a topic sentence introducing the key points you will cover. Draw on research to describe barriers preventing an autistic/neurodivergent individual from successful engagement in bi-directional communication o Briefly describe the individual and their current characteristics (i.e. age, social communication skills, interests, etc) including communication issues they are experiencing. o Describe their current environments and communication partners including your role. o Draw on the research to identify potential factors that may pose a barrier for bi-directional communication between them and the people in their environments (including you) including biases and beliefs that may prevent bi-directional engagement and communication. Draw on research to develop an interdisciplinary communication assessment plan o Outline what type of assessment and steps (formal, informal, structured) will be used to: ? Identify current skills and needs; ? Measure targeted outcomes including initial baseline o Justify reason for each type of assessment o Identify who will be responsible for each o Describe how you will engage with individuals/parents to undertake and evaluate assessment to determine priorities for intervention and outcomes achieved. Draw on research to describe the strategies that will be used including the use of AAC to address the priorities and outcomes identified in assessment plan o Discuss strategies for teaching the individual and communication partners needed skills. o Discuss if and how AAC will be used to facilitate bi-directional communication. o Draw on research to provide justification for how this strategy will support the individual to achieve outcomes and how this will facilitate bi-directional communication with those in the identified environment. o Discuss how you will work with the individual and their family to ensure that the strategies implemented provide the individual with a meaningful and effective means of communicating with others in their environment. You must use charts or figures as you wish. Assessments should be described in the essay, but may be attached in an appendix if you wish. You dont need to make this excessively long and dont need to go on about research. Mention some key findings in research and then demonstrate your knowledge by showing how you would apply this. Make sure you use references to show how your decisions are supported by the research. You need to also use APA 7 referencing style. PLEASE YOU must use more than 15 references to provide and use real evidence because the work will be revised by an academic team; and (if- will be found) any sentence is written without real references and actual citation, the entire work will be rejected and a refund will be processed given.Show more
