Special Interest Group 12 - Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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Current Issues: Considering Families and Multiculturalism in AAC Practice
Format(s): SIG Perspectives
This SIG 12 activity offers opportunities to extend augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) clinical practice through the inclusion of critical topic areas. The first article describes survey results and offers recommendations on parent perspectives regarding AAC assessments, barriers, and supports. Then, the second article focuses on the perceptions of Latina mothers of young children in early intervention settings, highlighting the need for culturally responsive communication and family centered support. As a part of a review of the existing literature, the third article uncovers needs for family centered, multilingual, and multicultural practice and calls for more quantitative research in multilingualism and AAC.
Implementation of Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Current Issues
Format(s): SIG Perspectives
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.
Current Issues in Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Format(s): SIG Perspectives
These SIG 12 Perspectives articles provide information on current issues associated with visual processing of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) displays for people with traumatic brain injury, assessment of the expressive language abilities of Spanish-speaking children who rely on AAC, and culturally sensitive approaches to aided language modeling. Readers will be more adept at designing effective AAC displays for adults with traumatic brain injury and at providing AAC services to children from multilingual and multicultural backgrounds.
Contemporary Issues: Augmentative & Alternative Communication Service Provision
Format(s): SIG Perspectives
These SIG 12 Perspectives articles provide information on current issues associated with display design and image complexity for individuals with cortical visual impairment and an in-depth overview of telepractice for people who rely on augmentative and alternative communication. Readers will be more adept at assessing and assisting children with cortical visual impairment and will have a better understanding of telepractice methods that can be used to improve virtual service delivery.

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