Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA.
Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2021 Nov;16(8):871-879. doi: 10.1080/17483107.2020.1745911. Epub 2020 Mar 31.
The current study sought to identify decisions speech-language pathologists (SLPs) make and their rationale for those decisions when designing an AAC display for a hypothetical school-aged child who was a beginning communicator. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) displays support communicative interactions for children who are unable to use spoken language to meet their communication needs. Children who are at the early stages of learning language, often termed beginning or emerging communicators, may rely heavily on the AAC display to support comprehension and expression. Thus, it is important for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to design a display that facilitates beginning communicators' communication development.
This paper reports on the answers related to a specific case study presented in an online survey completed by 77 SLPs with experience in AAC.
Data illustrated design decisions driven by child-specific characteristics and informed by research regarding type of layout, representation, and the importance of various design features.
Suggestions for future research are provided, including identifying goals and communicative functions best supported by different types of displays, clinicians' challenges/successes growing a system with the child, and determining the importance of symbol arrangement and organisation in communicative tasks by AAC users.Implications for RehabilitationIdentification of current practices reported by speech-language pathologists given a case study to develop and implement future research.A gap between research and practice suggests the need for better dissemination and application of research supporting the inclusion of people engaged in the event depicted in a visual scene display.Foundations for future research to provide guidance regarding best design of and communication goals supported by visual scene displays and grid-based displays.
本研究旨在确定言语语言病理学家（SLP）在为假想的学龄初学说话者设计 AAC 显示器时所做的决策及其决策依据。增材和替代沟通（AAC）显示器为无法使用口语满足沟通需求的儿童提供沟通互动支持。处于语言学习早期阶段的儿童，通常称为初学或新兴沟通者，可能严重依赖 AAC 显示器来支持理解和表达。因此，言语语言病理学家（SLP）设计一个能够促进初学沟通者沟通发展的显示器非常重要。
本文报告了在由 77 名具有 AAC 经验的 SLP 在线调查中完成的特定案例研究相关答案。
数据说明了由儿童特定特征驱动的设计决策，并受到有关布局类型、表示以及各种设计特征重要性的研究的启发。
为未来的研究提供了建议，包括确定不同类型显示器最支持的目标和沟通功能、临床医生在与儿童一起成长系统方面的挑战/成功、以及确定 AAC 用户在沟通任务中符号排列和组织的重要性。
确定言语语言病理学家在案例研究中报告的当前实践，以开展和实施未来的研究。研究与实践之间存在差距，表明需要更好地传播和应用支持视觉场景显示器和网格基显示器中包含相关人员的研究。为视觉场景显示器和基于网格的显示器的最佳设计和支持的沟通目标提供未来研究的基础。
