Core Vocabulary Resources for July

We’re ready to tear another page off the calendar and head into July, which means a new group of core words to focus on. The plan is to highlight a different set of core words each month to help our AAC learners grow their expressive vocabularies. Whether you are following along with the 2013 Year of Core (12 words/month) or the 2014 A(nother) Year of Core: (16 words/month; Different than the previous year’s core words), or just getting started, here are some helpful resources.

Our July words are listed below.

2013 Words: and, before, color, find, is, later, love, much, ready, same, they, with

2014 Words: black, bottom, cut, face, foot, grandfather, high, maybe, morning, one, really, share, something, then, wear, weather

Templates for you to plug in your own symbols: 2013 words, 2014 words

1. Minspeak/Unity version: 2013 words
2. PCS versions: 2013 words
3. Symbol Stix version: 2013 words

What can you say as you are highlighting these powerful words?

• Let’s SHARE ONE.
• THEY are the SAME.
• Are you READY?
• THEY LOVE to go WITH us.
• Put it at the BOTTOM of the stairs.
• I love you thisssss MUCH!
• FIND SOMETHING to do.
• IS your GRANDFATHER READY?
• First we COLOR. Then we CUT.
• MAYBE we can do it LATER.
• Ouch! I got a CUT on my FOOT.
• Let’s check the WEATHER so we can FIND SOMETHING good to WEAR.

Continued thanks to Heidi LoStracco, Alison Wade, Russell Cross, Gail Van Tatenhove, and all the others who have made these resources and allowed us to share them.