Ballin Liora, Balandin Susan, Stancliffe Roger J
Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, Sydney, Australia.
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2013 May;8(3):195-203. doi: 10.3109/17483107.2012.699586. Epub 2012 Jul 3.
In this paper the perceptions of three mentors and three mentees who took part in a speech generating device (SGD) mentoring programme are presented. The aims of the study were to investigate the participants' views on taking part in the mentoring programme and their satisfaction with the outcomes.
Information was gathered through semi-structured interviews with the six mentoring programme participants. Interview data were analysed for content themes.
Thematic analysis revealed six themes. Of these themes, five were identified in both the mentor and mentee's data. These themes were: satisfaction with the SGD mentoring programme, mentee improvement in SGD use, the importance of a role model of SGD use, the SGD mentoring relationship as a helping relationship, and SGD mentoring contributes to mentor self-esteem. The remaining theme, mentors who use an SGD learn from the mentoring experience, was generated from the mentor's data only.
The results of this study provide initial evidence in support of mentoring among people who use an SGD. A total of five of the six participants perceived that people learning an SGD can benefit from SGD mentoring by experienced users of SGDs and agreed on a need for such mentoring programmes to improve SGD use.
本文介绍了参与语音生成设备（SGD）指导计划的三位指导者和三位被指导者的看法。本研究的目的是调查参与者对参与指导计划的看法以及他们对结果的满意度。
通过对六位指导计划参与者进行半结构化访谈收集信息。对访谈数据进行内容主题分析。
主题分析揭示了六个主题。在这些主题中，有五个在指导者和被指导者的数据中都被识别出来。这些主题是：对SGD指导计划的满意度、被指导者在SGD使用方面的改进、SGD使用榜样的重要性、SGD指导关系作为一种帮助关系以及SGD指导有助于提高指导者的自尊。其余主题“使用SGD的指导者从指导经验中学习”仅从指导者的数据中得出。
本研究结果提供了初步证据，支持在使用SGD的人群中开展指导。六位参与者中有五位认为，学习SGD的人可以从SGD有经验的使用者的指导中受益，并一致认为需要此类指导计划来改善SGD的使用。
