Implementation of Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Current Issues
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These SIG 12 Perspectives articles offer opportunities to extend augmentative and
alternative communication (AAC) clinical practice through the inclusion of critical topic
areas. They describe survey results and recommendations on disaster preparedness for
SLPs to support people who use AAC; propose strategies for clinicians to create a
“friendship mindset” in AAC assessment and implementation; offer strategies for
designing and implementing Visual Scene Displays (VSDs) as a component within AAC
systems for clients across the lifespan; and describe how perspectives of adult part-time
AAC communicators support assessment and intervention with beginning
communicators who have intermittent, unreliable, and inconsistent speech.
Learning
Outcomes
You will be able to:
- explain the SLP role, through planning, preparation, and practice, in
supporting individuals who require AAC for communication and their
families/caregivers to promote disaster preparedness
- define friendship and outline purposeful and proactive strategies to
incorporate social interaction training into goals and maximize opportunities
for practice for individuals who use AAC to communicate
- list benefits of Visual Scene Displays (VSDs) as a part of a multimodal
communication system and identify key factors for the SLPs to consider when
designing VSDs
- define intermittent, unreliable, and inconsistent speech as described by
speaking autistic adults and describe how to assess and support part-time
AAC strategies for pediatric clients
Assessment
Type
Self-assessment—Think
about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your
new knowledge.
Articles
in This Course
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication Disaster Preparedness: Roles,
Responsibilities, and Opportunities for Speech-Language Pathologists and Other
Professionals by Miriam C. Boesch, Elizabeth Begley, Sarah Blackstone, and
Tina Caswell,
published in SIG 12, Volume 7, Issue 5, October 2022
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication and Friendships: Considerations for
Speech-Language Pathologists by Michelle Therrien, Zach Rossetti, and Jørn Østvik,
published in SIG 12, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2023
- Visual Scene Displays for Children and Adults: Using Case Studies to Bridge Research
and Clinical Practice by David J. Hajjar and Kathleen Mulkerin,
published in SIG 12, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2023
- Perspectives of Part-Time Augmentative and Alternative Communication Use in Adults
and Implications for Pediatric Service Delivery by Susan Marjorie Koerner, Sarah Glaser,
and Kirsten Kropkowski, published in SIG 12, Volume 8, Issue 4, August 2023
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