3.5.5 – Expressive Communication

4.Expressive Communication (check one answer that best describes your student) 

• Uses symbolic language to communicate: Student uses verbal or written words, signs, braille, or language-based augmentative systems to request, initiate, and respond to questions, describe things or events, and express refusal. 
• Uses intentional communication, but not at a symbolic language level: Student uses understandable communication through such modes as gestures, pictures, objects/textures, points, etc., to clearly express a variety of intentions. 
• Student communicates primarily through cries, facial expressions, change in muscle tone, etc., but no clear use of objects/textures, regularized gestures, pictures, signs, etc., to communicate 

With Intensive intervention, it is likely that a communication system can be identified for many students at the pre-symbolic and emerging symbolic levels. 

Information on the student’s current communication skills can be found in the present levels of the IEP, in the most recent evaluation report and/or from parent or teacher observations.