Vocabulary Builder Guide

Vocabulary Builder Guide

Vocabulary Builder Guide

Acknowledgement

Marianne Cameron, Software Engineer Tracy Custer, M. Ed., SLP, Regional Consultant Cindy Halloran, OTR/L, Director of Center for AAC and Autism John Halloran, M.S., CCC-SLP, Senior Clinical Associate

Jennifer Herzog, B.S., Regional Consultant Tim Hurn, Technical Service Rep

Janet Lehr, M.S., CCC-SLP, Regional Consultant Verda McGraw, M. Ed., MAPs Manager

Sarah Wilds, M.S., CCC-SLP, Regional Consultant

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Vantage, Vanguard, Language Activity Monitor (LAM), Memory Transfer Interface (MTI) and Picture Prediction are trademarks of Prentke Romich Company (PRC).

Minspeak and Unity are registered trademarks of Semantic Compaction Systems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries.

Semantic Compaction is a trademark of Semantic Compaction Systems, Inc.

PCS Symbols are a product of Mayer-Johnson.

Fonix-DECtalk Text-to-Speech software is a copyright of Fonix Corporation; all rights reserved. RealSpeak Text-to-Speech is a trademark of Nuance Communications, Inc. Acapela speech technologies licensed from the Acapella Group.

April 2011

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Table of Contents

Section 1: INTRODUCTION............................................................................................ 5 Section 2: UNITY OVERVIEW ........................................................................................ 6

2.1 Number of Keys Available for Unity Programs ................................................. 7 2.2 Unity One-Hit ................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Unity Sequenced.............................................................................................. 8 Section 3: VOCABULARY BUILDER OVERVIEW ........................................................ 10 3.1 Examples of Vocabulary Builder Use............................................................. 11 3.2 Hide/Show Keys vs. Vocabulary Builder On/Off ............................................ 12 Section 4: SEQUENCE SETS ....................................................................................... 14 4.1 Default Sequence Sets .................................................................................. 15

4.1.1 Descriptions of Default Sequence Sets ................................................. 18 Default Sequence Sets: LAMP SETS............................................................. 18 Default Sequence Sets: CORE SETS ............................................................ 19 Default Sequence Sets: READING SETS ...................................................... 24 4.1.2 Using Default Sequence Sets................................................................ 25 Default Sequence Set Use: LOAD or MERGE ............................................... 26 4.2 Creating Your Own Sequence Sets ............................................................... 30 4.2.1 Spelling Method (Using the Mask Menu) ............................................... 30 Save Sequence Set........................................................................................ 34 Vocabulary Builder On/Off .............................................................................. 36 4.2.2 Sequencing Method (Unmasking Icon Sequences Manually) ............... 36 4.2.3 Using the Navigate Function.................................................................. 38 4.2.4 Saving a Sequence Set ......................................................................... 43 4.3 Adding Words to a Sequence Set .................................................................. 45 4.3.1 Spelling Method (Using the Mask Menu) ............................................... 45 4.3.2: Sequencing Method (Unmasking Icon Sequences Manually) .............. 48 Section 5: LOADING SEQUENCE SETS...................................................................... 49 5.1 Loading Sequence Sets from the Toolbox ..................................................... 49 5.2 Storing a Sequence Set on a Key .................................................................. 50 Section 6: HELPFUL HINTS FOR USING VOCABULARY BUILDER........................... 52 6.1 Sorting by Word, First or Last Icon................................................................. 52 6.2 Including all Phrases...................................................................................... 55 6.3 Storing Vocabulary Masking On The Fly........................................................ 57 6.4 System Lock Limitations ................................................................................ 59 Section 7: REFERENCES............................................................................................. 60 Appendix A: LAMP SETS.............................................................................................. 61 Appendix B: CORE SETS ............................................................................................. 62 20 Core Starter Words ......................................................................................... 62 45 Core Starter Words ......................................................................................... 63 Core from Unity 45 One-Hit ................................................................................. 64 Core from Unity 60 One-Hit ................................................................................. 65 Core from Unity 84 One-Hit ................................................................................. 66 CORE SETS ........................................................................................................ 68

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CORE NOUNS .................................................................................................... 73 Appendix C: READING SETS ....................................................................................... 85

DOLCH WORDS.................................................................................................. 85 FRY SIGHT WORDS ........................................................................................... 88 READING WITH UNITY....................................................................................... 91

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