With contributions from leaders in their fields from across the world, this book focuses on current AAC research and examines ways in which it contributes to a better general understanding of processes related to its use and implementation.
These stories present a framework for assessment and treatment service delivery across a wide variety of people with complex communication needs.
This text describes the development of augmentative and alternative communication.
In contrast, this text uses interactions between users of AAC and their communication partners as a basis to explore the creative synthesis between engagement and participation to provide clinical guidelines for assessment and intervention ...
... do not meet the communication needs of patients with complex communication disorders and screening and assessment of individuals with CCN in the inpatient setting is the “Inpatient Functional Communication Interview” (O'Halloran, ...
This textbook presents a life-span approach to improving the lives of children and adults who have severe communication disorders due to autism, traumatic brain injury, intellectual disabilities, or sensory impairments.
This definitive textbook incorporates critical information on implementing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). It explains the principles and procedures of AAC assessment and offers intervention techniques that are appropriate throughout...
This is a valuable source of information and reference for the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in speech-language pathology.
The book presents the various AAC interventions and teaches the prospective clinician which intervention may be effective depending on the needs, condition, and prognosis of the client.