The information you provide is used to generate two products: a visual Profile of the results, and a Communication Skills List. You may print these out.
Profile
The Profile provides a one-page visual summary of the information that you have entered about an individual’s communication skills. The Profile contains 80 cells, each representing a particular message at a particular level of communicative behavior. Each cell is shown as mastered, emerging or not used. This designation is based on the HIGHEST score for any behavior that might be checked for that cell: in other words, if ANY behavior is scored mastered for a particular cell, then the cell will appear as mastered on the profile, even if you also checked some behaviors as emerging or not used for that cell. This means that someone with severe physical impairment who uses one or two behaviors to communicate (such as looking at something or activating a simple switch) may have a printed Profile that looks very much like that of someone who expresses the same messages using a wide variety of behaviors. In other words, the printed Profile results do not distinguish between someone who has only one way of communicating a message and someone who has many different ways to communicate the same message. However, as you view the Profile online you may click on each cell to see exactly how each behavior was scored. You will also see any notes that you made as you answered the questions.
Communication Skills List
The Communication Skills List simply lists each message (such as "Obtains More of Something"), the categories of behavior that your child uses to communicate that message (such as Body Movements and Facial Expressions), the specific behaviors used under each category (such as Leg Movements and Smile) and the level of mastery (Mastered or Emerging). This list shows you exactly which behaviors your child uses to communicate which messages.