Cohen C
Pediatr Ann. 1985 Mar;14(3):232-4, 236-7, 240. doi: 10.3928/0090-4481-19850301-08.
This article has described the rationale and methods available for treatment of severely communicatively impaired children. The primary goal of such intervention is to facilitate communication, rather than speech per se, as the most realistic goal for some youngsters. To the extent that augmentative techniques affect speech development, however, they have been shown to exert a facilitory, rather than inhibitory, effect. The relatively new phenomenon of aided augmentative communication for non-speaking youngsters is still in its infancy. Service professionals in the medical, clinical, and research fields must continue to discern ways to practically apply these instruments to the task of human communication interchange.
本文描述了治疗严重沟通障碍儿童的基本原理和可用方法。这种干预的主要目标是促进沟通，而不是言语本身，因为对一些儿童来说这是最现实的目标。然而，就辅助技术对言语发展的影响而言，它们已被证明具有促进作用，而非抑制作用。对于不会说话的儿童而言，辅助性增强沟通这一相对较新的现象仍处于起步阶段。医学、临床和研究领域的服务专业人员必须继续探索切实将这些工具应用于人际沟通交流任务的方法。
