Forms and Functions - Communicative Competence The Bridge School

Multiple informants can complete this worksheet to describe how a child expresses a range of communicative functions. Forms and Functions provides information about the range of communication modes used by a student. The worksheet can be customized for different purposes, for example:

Ask parents to fill out Forms and Functions for new students so unfamiliar staff can recognize subtle communicative signals.
Multiple partners at school and home fill out the worksheet to see how communication forms differ among more and less familiar partners.
Fill out the worksheet periodically to track progress over time to see how communication forms and functions change and broaden.
Track use of different AAC tools and strategies across functions.
Provide information about how a student’s communication modes change in different seating and positioning devices.