Hanson and Fager describe communication supports that can enhance participation, as described in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
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Patient provider communication across medical settings
Nordness and Beukelman highlight strategies to support consistent, effective patient–provider communication in various medical settings
Patient-provider communication for people with severe dysarthria
Beukelman and Nordness discuss policy and system change for patient provider communications in medical situations.
Videos with integrated AAC visual scene displays
O’Neill and colleagues evaluated the effects of videos with integrated visual scene displays (VSDs) on task completion in community settings by an adolescent with ASD
Comparison of the effects of mobile technology AAC apps on programming visual scene displays (Caron et al., 2017)
Results suggest that by simplifying the operational requirements of AAC apps, the programming time is reduced, which may allow partners to better support individuals who use AAC
Using digital texts in interactive reading activities (Boyle et al, 2017)
Boyle et al describe the results of a pilot study intervention using digital texts including VSDs and T2L features with children with language delays in an inclusive preschool setting.
Family-centered services for children with ASD and limited speech: The experiences of parents and speech-language pathologists (Mandak & Light, 2017)
99 parents of children with ASD and limited speech and 211 SLPs who served children with ASD and limited speech completed questionnaires measuring their experiences with the provision of family-centered services.
AAC intervention to build communication, language, and literacy skills with children with complex communication needs… (Light, 2016)
What advances have been made to date in AAC interventions for children? And what are the challenges that we need to address to improve outcomes?
Precision intervention research for adults with complex communication needs resulting from acquired medical conditions (Beukelman, 2016).
“In this article, I will briefly discuss the population base of adults with acquired complex communication needs…”
Fast switch scanning keyboards: Minimal expected query decision trees (Higger et al, 2016)
Within AAC, switch scanning is a common paradigm for spelling where a set of characters is highlighted and the user is queried as to whether their target character is in the highlighted set. This work seeks a decision tree which requires the fewest expected queries per decision sequence (EQPD).