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A tutorial: self-created film as a semiotic resource in AAC. 教程：自制影片作为 AAC 的符号资源。

IF 2.1 3区医学

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-21 DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2024.2387573

Mascha Legel, Gloria Soto, Nicola Grove, Annalu Waller, Stijn Deckers, Hans van Balkom, Ronald Spanjers, Christopher Norrie, Bert Steenbergen

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In dialogue with the body: a phenomenological exploration of the interrelationship between people who use AAC and their AAC devices. 与身体对话：对使用 AAC 的人与其 AAC 设备之间相互关系的现象学探索。

IF 2.1 3区医学

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-03 DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2024.2407792

Wisnu A Pradana

{"title":"In dialogue with the body: a phenomenological exploration of the interrelationship between people who use AAC and their AAC devices.","authors":"Wisnu A Pradana","doi":"10.1080/07434618.2024.2407792","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07434618.2024.2407792","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the intricate relationship between people who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and their AAC devices. Drawing upon insights from phenomenology, I conducted a modified systematic review to explore the enduring phenomenon of low AAC device adoption and as a means to unravel the moments of embodiment and disembodiment experienced by people who use AAC with their devices. The discussion begins with an introduction to phenomenology as a philosophical inquiry and the guiding principles I employed to explore the phenomenon, namely, parte extra parte and object embodiment. Subsequently, I analyze the hegemony of a device-centric approach within the AAC landscape and delve into the first-person experiences of people who use AAC in living with their devices. Lastly, I discuss the embodiment and disembodiment of people who use AAC with their devices, conceptualize the interrelationship between them, and provide future directions for a more holistic and participatory AAC development and investigation that centers on the lived experiences of people who use AAC.","PeriodicalId":49234,"journal":{"name":"Augmentative and Alternative Communication","volume":" ","pages":"99-113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Examining the perspectives of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) specialists on conducting AAC evaluations with people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis via telehealth. 研究增强和替代沟通（AAC）专家通过远程医疗对肌萎缩性侧索硬化患者进行AAC评估的观点。

IF 2.1 3区医学

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2024.2443669

Mayaka Barton, Amy Roman, Kristie Spencer, Lindsay Cheng, Carolyn Baylor

{"title":"Examining the perspectives of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) specialists on conducting AAC evaluations with people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis via telehealth.","authors":"Mayaka Barton, Amy Roman, Kristie Spencer, Lindsay Cheng, Carolyn Baylor","doi":"10.1080/07434618.2024.2443669","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07434618.2024.2443669","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to explore what speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who are AAC specialists see as advantages and disadvantages of providing AAC services via telehealth, how well tele-AAC assessments align with guidelines for in-person assessments, and how SLPs' perspectives of tele-AAC services changed post-COVID. Fifteen SLPs who are AAC specialists and experienced working with people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis watched videos of speech generating device (SGD) assessments conducted via telehealth for eight people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Using a checklist based on the AAC Clinical Assessment Project (AAC-CAP), the SLPs rated how comparable remote assessment was to in-person assessment, and described advantages and challenges. Across checklist elements, most participants rated AAC assessment via telemedicine as \"same/comparable\" to in-person assessment. The most common advantages of tele-AAC assessment were that tele-AAC was more functional, increased care partner availability, and increased clients' comfort at home. The most common challenges were technical difficulties and a limited comprehensive assessment due to the remote modality. Tele-AAC should be considered a viable assessment option as it may increase equitable access to care for more people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Tools such as the AAC-CAP may help generalist SLPs increase their comfort and proficiency providing AAC services.","PeriodicalId":49234,"journal":{"name":"Augmentative and Alternative Communication","volume":" ","pages":"169-182"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Listen up! perspectives of people of color who use augmentative and alternative communication in the United States. 听好了！美国使用辅助和替代性交流手段的有色人种的观点。

IF 2.1 3区医学

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-03 DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2024.2407798

Shelley Lund, Yoosun Chung, Tracy Rackensperger, Alison Pentland, Adriana Castillo, Gracie Williams, Wendy Quach

{"title":"Listen up! perspectives of people of color who use augmentative and alternative communication in the United States.","authors":"Shelley Lund, Yoosun Chung, Tracy Rackensperger, Alison Pentland, Adriana Castillo, Gracie Williams, Wendy Quach","doi":"10.1080/07434618.2024.2407798","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07434618.2024.2407798","url":null,"abstract":"Every individual has a fundamental right to communicate and access equal opportunities to fully participate in society. However, this right may not be fully manifested for individuals with communication access needs especially those from underrepresented groups. This project had two aims, to determine 1) the specific experiences, challenges, and aspirations related to the cultural identities of people of color (POC) who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and 2) how AAC service providers and manufacturers can support POC AAC users in a culturally and linguistically responsive manner. We conducted an online, asynchronous focus group with seven participants over eight weeks. The participants' responses were coded qualitatively. Seven major themes were identified: AAC is a Culture, AAC System Features, Self-Identity as a Person of Color who uses AAC, Experience with Service Providers, Improvements to the Field of AAC, Racial Inequities in AAC Support, and Future Research. Suggestions are provided regarding how service providers and manufacturers can serve as better allies to support POC who use AAC.","PeriodicalId":49234,"journal":{"name":"Augmentative and Alternative Communication","volume":" ","pages":"156-168"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Picture book videos incorporating key word signing for children who require AAC and their families: design and evaluation of a multimedia-enhanced setting. 为需要辅助认知功能的儿童及其家人制作包含关键词手语的图画书视频：设计和评估多媒体增强设置。

IF 2.1 3区医学

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-12 DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2024.2370821

Meike Cruz Leon, Isabel Zorn

{"title":"Picture book videos incorporating key word signing for children who require AAC and their families: design and evaluation of a multimedia-enhanced setting.","authors":"Meike Cruz Leon, Isabel Zorn","doi":"10.1080/07434618.2024.2370821","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07434618.2024.2370821","url":null,"abstract":"Key word signing (KWS) is an unaided form of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and is frequently used by children with cognitive impairments and their families. Successful implementation of KWS requires a family environment that provides aided language input by modeling the signs. However, families face challenges implementing the signs in their everyday lives. KWS requires effort and sustained parental commitment. Users may also struggle with finding good learning resources and stimulating and enjoyable shared contexts for communication. Signed videos of popular children's books may help to implement KWS and create a signing environment which exposes children and their families to KWS in meaningful ways. The aim of this study was to create videos of this type and investigate whether and how they might serve as an attractive medium of support for families' KWS experience. Three families tested the videos. A triangulated qualitative study incorporating interviews and participant observation explored the families' experience of using these videos as a context for shared communication. The findings suggest that picture book videos supplemented by KWS may be appropriate resources for the use of KWS in everyday family life. They serve as a child-centered activity involving KWS exposure, in which children and their families can participate joyfully and naturally.","PeriodicalId":49234,"journal":{"name":"Augmentative and Alternative Communication","volume":" ","pages":"129-141"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141591845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Systematic review of AAC interventions using speech generating devices for autistic preschoolers. 使用语音生成设备对自闭症学龄前儿童进行AAC干预的系统回顾。

IF 2.1 3区医学

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2025.2479768

Michelle C S Therrien, Kelly Whalon, Débora Nunes, Peter Marti, Ashley Sellers

{"title":"A Systematic review of AAC interventions using speech generating devices for autistic preschoolers.","authors":"Michelle C S Therrien, Kelly Whalon, Débora Nunes, Peter Marti, Ashley Sellers","doi":"10.1080/07434618.2025.2479768","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07434618.2025.2479768","url":null,"abstract":"Many autistic1 children experience communication challenges. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) can function as a primary or supportive mode of communication, and interventions incorporating AAC have a positive impact on the communication skills of autistic children. This systematic review investigated intervention studies using speech generating devices to enhance the expressive language of autistic preschoolers. Specifically, research questions addressed the (a) expressive communication skills and functions; (b) instructional strategies; (c) impact of interventions; and (d) ecological validity of the included studies. After an extensive search process, twenty studies from 1998 to 2023 met the inclusion criteria. Study characteristics were extracted, social and ecological validity were evaluated, and results were described using effect sizes and visual analysis. The majority targeted requesting (n=14) and the remaining addressed communication acts across diverse functions (n=6). Eleven of the studies demonstrated moderate to strong effects. Most interventions were multicomponent, including a variety of strategies, with prompting being the most common. Fewer than half of the studies met the full criteria for ecological validity, and only seven measured social validity. Implications for the field are provided including a call to action for researchers to evaluate interventions to support communication across diverse functions.","PeriodicalId":49234,"journal":{"name":"Augmentative and Alternative Communication","volume":" ","pages":"114-128"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Developing a screening instrument for underlying core domains of communicative competence in children with communication support needs. 开发一种筛查工具，用于筛查有沟通支持需求儿童的基本沟通能力核心领域。

IF 2.1 3区医学

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-05 DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2024.2367991

Stijn R J M Deckers, Marieke van Onna, Elske Gros, Hans van Balkom

{"title":"Developing a screening instrument for underlying core domains of communicative competence in children with communication support needs.","authors":"Stijn R J M Deckers, Marieke van Onna, Elske Gros, Hans van Balkom","doi":"10.1080/07434618.2024.2367991","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07434618.2024.2367991","url":null,"abstract":"A socio-neurocognitive approach to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) shows several underlying domains of communicative competence: Attention, perception, cognition, memory, orientation, socio-emotional development, motor skills, and language. To determine developmental markers of these underlying core domains of communicative competence in children with communication support needs, we developed a new screening instrument. The present article consists of three consecutive studies. In study 1, we constructed the first version of the screening instrument based on a sample of both children without disabilities and children with Down syndrome. In study 2, we confirmed the reliability (i.e., internal consistency) of the screening instrument in a new group of young children with typical development and established concurrent validity with the Early Language Scale. In study 3, we established concurrent validity with the Communication Matrix in a clinical sample of children with communication support needs. The screening instrument can be used in clinical practice as part of AAC assessment to provide comprehensive insights into strengths and weaknesses in the underlying core domains of communicative competence of children with communication support needs.","PeriodicalId":49234,"journal":{"name":"Augmentative and Alternative Communication","volume":" ","pages":"142-155"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141535700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dismantling societal barriers that limit people who need or use AAC: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions. 消除限制人们需要或使用AAC的社会障碍：生活经验，主要研究成果和未来方向。

IF 2.1 3区医学

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2025.2508490

Janice Light, Susan K Fager, Jessica Gormley, Glenda Watson Hyatt, Erik Jakobs

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How Ableism impacts people who use AAC. 残疾歧视如何影响使用AAC的人。

IF 2.1 3区医学

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2025.2489662

Lateef McLeod

{"title":"How Ableism impacts people who use AAC.","authors":"Lateef McLeod","doi":"10.1080/07434618.2025.2489662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2489662","url":null,"abstract":"Ableism is a form of oppression with pernicious consequences for people who use AAC. Historically, Ableist ideologies led to attempts to erase disability from the social fabric (e.g., the Eugenics movement). Speechism is the prejudice and discrimination of people because their language, use of language, or mode of expression is deemed inferior. Speechism and Ableism obstruct the true reality of the experiences of people who use AAC. Ableism presumes that the abled-bodied experience is the only legitimate and valid experience and does not recognize that many disabled people experience their lives very differently. This perspective makes invisible the ableist experiences that disabled people have to face in many facets of our lives. This problem is compounded for people who use AAC who may face challenges explaining the full extent and impact of these ableist experiences. As an AAC community, we must confront Ableism in our field and industry by always prioritizing the lived experiences of people who use AAC in the development of AAC technology and policy. People who use AAC must be at the decision table regarding everything that involves us as a community. We can have an anti-ableist future only if disabled people to lead the way.","PeriodicalId":49234,"journal":{"name":"Augmentative and Alternative Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A personal commentary about disability inclusion, and representation in research. 关于残疾包容和研究中的代表性的个人评论。

IF 2.1 3区医学

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2025.2499685

Anjali J Forber-Pratt

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