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Direct linkDonaldson, Amy L.; Corbin, Endever; Zisk, Alyssa Hillary; Eddy, Brandon – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Families and professionals often consider augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) a "last resort" for persons with communication challenges; however, speaking autistic adults have reported that they would have benefited from access to AAC as children. This tutorial discusses the history of this "last resort"…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Interpersonal Communication
Schaefer, John M.; Andzik, Natalie R. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2016
Students with significant disabilities often struggle to communicate their wants and needs but can be taught widely recognizable communication with the aid of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) supports. Simple speech generating devices (SGDs) such as Step-by-Step switches or GoTalk can be used by students to send specific messages.…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Severe Disabilities, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Toys
Hidecker, Mary Jo Cooley; Jones, Rebecca S.; Imig, David R.; Villarruel, Francisco A. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2009
Purpose: Evidence-based practice (EBP) describes clinical decision making using research, clinical experience, and client values. For family-centered practices, the client's family is integral to this process. This article proposes that using family paradigms, a family science framework, may help elicit and understand client/family values within…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Family Characteristics, Decision Making, Clinical Experience
Choice Making Part I: How Children with Severe Disabilities Make Choices of Preference and Knowledge
Van Tubbergen, Marie; Omichinski, Donna; Warschausky, Seth – Exceptional Parent, 2007
Communication can be difficult for children with conditions such as cerebral palsy because of speech and physical impairments. For this group of children, choice-making is often limited to choices of personal preferences; however, preferences do not reveal intellectual abilities. Therefore, choice-making should be presented to these children in…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Self Determination, Decision Making, Severe Disabilities
Download full textParette, Howard P., Jr. – 1997
This paper highlights features of an interactive, bilingual CD-ROM currently under development that is designed to be used for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) decision making with professionals and families of children with disabilities. The CD-ROM is scheduled for release in the spring of 1998 and will: (1) provide information…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Cultural Influences, Decision Making
Peer reviewedDissinger, Frankie K. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2003
This article describes the development of a four-year course sequence in assistive technology (AT). Course participants learned how to assess student needs for AT, what AT devices were available, and how to make decisions within the individualized education program (IEP) team process. Major topical sections were data-gathering frameworks, legal…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Core Curriculum
