AAC Modeling Intervention Research Review

Research and Practice for Persons With Severe Disabilities

Sennott, S. C., Light, J. C., et al. (2016).

Research and Practice for Persons With Severe Disabilities, 41(2), 101-115.

This systematic review investigates the effects of communication partner modeling of aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) on language acquisition in individuals with complex communication needs.

Office of Special Education Programs, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education



1989-2013

Peer-reviewed, English-language studies (not further specified)

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Consistently positive and large main effects for pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, and morphological development for young children who are beginning communicators resulted from aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) modeling-based intervention (p. 110).