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.