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Direct linkMelinda R. Snodgrass; Sarah N. Douglas; Virginia L. Walker; Yun-Ching Chung – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2024
Despite advances in the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), outcomes among children who require AAC remain discouraging. Practitioners may benefit from guidelines to aid decision-making in relation to supporting pre-linguistic communicators. We conducted an open-ended questionnaire of 30 AAC professionals from six…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Decision Making, Evaluation, Communication Skills
Atikah Bagawan; Sarah N. Douglas; Sarah Dunkel-Jackson – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2024
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who have Complex Communication Needs (CCN) benefit from Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) to support communication. Research on the use of AAC and how different stakeholders perceive the use of AAC has been heavily focused on Western culture. The purpose of this study was to understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Caregiver Attitudes, Children
Download full textTiantian Sun; Ryan Bowles; Sarah N. Douglas; Joshua Plavnick – Grantee Submission, 2023
Children with complex communication needs (CCN) who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) often need more time to process and respond when communicating with others. This study employed a survival analysis approach exploring child response-time patterns following different communication opportunities for young children with CCN who…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Reaction Time, Individual Differences
Tiantian Sun; Ryan Bowles; Sarah N. Douglas; Joshua Plavnick – Exceptional Children, 2023
Children with complex communication needs (CCN) who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) often need more time to process and respond when communicating with others. This study employed a survival analysis approach exploring child response-time patterns following different communication opportunities for young children with CCN who…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Reaction Time, Individual Differences
Sarah N. Douglas; Ryan Bowles; Joshua Plavnick; Tiantian Sun; Sarah M. Dunkel-Jackson; Atikah Bagawan – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2024
The development of communication is a fundamental part of early childhood. Yet many students with disabilities require supports such as augmentative and alternative communication to develop communication skills. Teachers and paraeducators play key roles in supporting communication for these students, but often lack effective and accessible…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Students with Disabilities, Communication Skills, Intervention
Sarah N. Douglas; Ryan Bowles; Joshua Plavnick; Tiantian Sun; Sarah M. Dunkel-Jackson; Atikah Bagawan – Grantee Submission, 2023
The development of communication is a fundamental part of early childhood. Yet many students with disabilities require supports such as augmentative and alternative communication to develop communication skills. Teachers and paraeducators play key roles in supporting communication for these students, but often lack effective and accessible…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Students with Disabilities, Communication Skills, Intervention
Sarah N. Douglas; Ryan Bowles; Joshua Plavnick; Sarah M. Dunkel-Jackson; Tiantian Sun; Atikah Bagawan – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2024
Paraeducators frequently support children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) but often lack access to effective training opportunities. Similarly, special education teachers are responsible for supervising paraeducators but often lack effective training on AAC and paraeducator supervision. The POWR+ (Prepare the activity and…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Students with Disabilities, Special Education Teachers
Teresa Iacono; Juliet Goldbart; Sarah N. Douglas; Ana Garcia-Melgar – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2022
The aim of this scoping review was to explore the extent to which AAC studies have occurred in inclusive versus segregated settings, the role of AAC in inclusive setting studies, and the evidence for AAC supporting inclusive education of students with complex communication needs. A scoping review of studies published from 2000 to 2020 that…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Inclusion, Communication Problems, Special Needs Students
