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Increasing Linguistic and Prelinguistic Communication for Social Closeness during Naturalistic AAC Instruction with Young Children on the Autism Spectrum
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Brenna Griffen; Christine Holyfield; Elizabeth R. Lorah; Nicolette Caldwell – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
This study examined the effects of an intervention package using high-tech augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) with Naturalistic Instruction (NI), time delay, and prompting during social routines for preschoolers on the autism spectrum. The AAC was a communication application on a tablet programmed with color photo representations of…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Prompting, Preschool Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Common Ground in AAC: How Children Who Use AAC and Teaching Staff Shape Interaction in the Multimodal Classroom
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Seray Ibrahim; Michael Clarke; Asimina Vasalou; Jeff Bezemer – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
Children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) are multimodal communicators. However, in classroom interactions involving children and staff, achieving mutual understanding and accomplishing task-oriented goals by attending to the child's unaided AAC can be challenging. This study draws on excerpts of video recordings of…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Young Children, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication
Speaking Partners' Talk in Transitions between Symbols in Conversations that Use Speech-Output Technologies
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Irina Savolainen – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
Aided conversations differ from spoken ones in their transitions between turns and symbols because seeking and choosing symbols takes more time than speaking words naturally. This study adopted the concepts and principles of conversation analysis (CA) to analyze the transitions between symbols during the construction of aided turns. The data was…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Mothers, Sons, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
A Demonstration of Incorporating Discriminative Stimuli into an AAC Device during Functional Communication Training
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Shannon M. Angley; Daniel R. Mitteer; Brian D. Greer; Omar M. Elwasli; Wayne W. Fisher – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
Functional communication training (FCT) is an effective intervention for teaching communication responses and reducing challenging behavior. One limitation of FCT is that frequent reinforcement may be impractical or impossible in many situations. Recently, Mitteer et al. published a tutorial in the journal "AAC" that provided video…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Skills, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Behavior Modification
Speech-Language Pathologists' Perceptions of Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Thailand
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Kamonsitichai, Wansiya; Goldstein, Howard – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2023
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems are not well-known and broadly used in Thailand. To begin introducing AAC systems and interventions to children with complex communication needs in Thailand, understanding speech-language pathologists' (SLPs) perceptions toward various AAC systems is an important first step. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders, Children
Development of a Manually Operated Communication System (MOCS) for Patients in Intensive Care Units
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Goldberg, Miriam A.; Hochberg, Leigh R.; Carpenter, Dawn; Walz, J. Matthias – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2021
Nonvocal alert patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting often struggle to communicate due to inaccessible or unavailable tools for augmentative and alternative communication. Innovation of a hand-operated non-touchscreen communication system for nonvocal ICU patients was guided by design concepts including speech output, simplicity, and…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Patients, Hospitals, Communication Disorders