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Chenausky, Karen V.; Maffei, Marc; Tager-Flusberg, Helen; Green, Jordan R. – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2023
The purpose of this paper was to review best-practice methods of collecting and analyzing speech production data from minimally verbal autistic speakers. Data on speech production data in minimally verbal individuals are valuable for a variety of purposes, including phenotyping, clinical assessment, and treatment monitoring. Both perceptual…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Data Collection, Speech Communication, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Hill, Katya; Romich, Barry – 1999
This report describes how augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) automated language activity monitoring can provide clinicians with the tools they need to collect and analyze language samples from the natural environment of children with disabilities for clinical intervention and outcomes measurements. The Language Activity Monitor (LAM)…
Descriptors: Adults, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Children, Communication Disorders
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Hill, Katya – Topics in Language Disorders, 2004
The goal of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is the most effective communication possible. Speech-language pathologists are obligated to collect data, measure communication, and apply the principles of evidence-based practice (EBP). This article presents a model for EBP that represents how collecting and evaluating performance data…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
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Huer, Mary Blake – Journal of Children's Communication Development, 1997
Presents a culturally sensitive four-part augmentative and alternative communication assessment protocol. The protocol is inclusive, emphasizing the need to address cultural features directly, and it includes a self-assessment for all practitioners before they engage in the delivery of services to children from different cultural backgrounds.…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Parette, Howard P., Jr.; And Others – 1994
This study evaluated the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) assessment and prescriptive practices currently used in various states, through a survey of project directors in all 50 states receiving funding under the Technology Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1994. The survey instrument assessed directors'…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Aids (for Disabled)
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 1995
This final report describes activities and accomplishments of Project EPIC (Effective Partner Interaction in the Community), a 3-year federally supported project in Georgia to facilitate the establishment and implementation of effective educational practices with students having deaf-blindness. The project was designed to expand students' present…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Skills, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Deaf Blind
McEvoy, Mary; Reichle, Joe – 1995
This federally funded project was designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a best practices inservice model to train teachers to provide services in least restrictive environments for preschool children with emotional/behavioral disorders. Through collaborative planning among the University of Minnesota and selected Minnesota public schools,…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Behavior Disorders, College School Cooperation, Communication Skills