Our next featured domain discussion is around Domain #6, LENGTH / COMPLEXITY OF LANGUAGE. The goal: To communicate messages at a level of complexity that meets their individual requirements without reliance on interpretation by others. This domain … Read More
How do you score the overall level of communicative competence if your participant has a varied profile? Sometimes, it can be difficult to decide how to score your participant, when they have a varied profile graph. To help, we have … Read More
Our next featured domain discussion is around Domain #5, SYSTEM AS OWN VOICE. The goal: To see themselves as having a voice and, if not using speech, understand their communication system to be that voice. Domain 5 … Read More
The ROCC is intended to be a wide ranging and long term tool. The levels for each domain are laid out across definable progressions that impact on communicative competence, and with a range from emergent to competent across levels 0-5, … Read More
This is a common question. Some ROCC users are unsure how Domains 1 and 6 are different to each other, and how they work alongside each other. We have tried to clarify here to avoid confusion! Domain 1 – Use … Read More
Our next featured domain discussion is around Domain #4, INTELLIGIBILITY. The goal: To indicate messages in a way that can be understood by unfamiliar partners. Domain 4 is a particularly helpful domain to consider when you are … Read More
Our next featured domain discussion is around Domain #3, INITIATION. The goal: To initiate communication in a way that is accepted and recognised by others when the individual has something to say. The key points for this goal are that … Read More
Today’s featured domain discussion is around Domain #2. The goal: To own an efficient and individualised communication system (often including more than one tool) with appropriate vocabulary to meet current and future communication requirements. The key points for this goal … Read More
Updated wording – May 2021 Based on feedback, some of the wording in Domain 1 was updated in May 2021. The goal and descriptors were not changed, only the title question and the clarifying note. See below where the changes … Read More
First of all, it is important to remember that the ROCC is intended to be a roadmap, not a scorecard. The score is less important than the conversations the results generate, or the consideration that you give to each domain … Read More
