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基本説明
How effective are AAC techniques in improving communication skills?
Full Description
This book provides readers with essential tools for appraising evidence and outlining steps for planning and implementing better efficacy research. It aims to help researchers and practitioners develop the necessary skills for moving the augmentative and alternative communication field toward evidence-based practice. The Efficacy of Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Toward Evidence-Based Practice is a crucial addition to anyone's bookshelf who is involved in the AAC enterprise, including speech-language pathologists, special educators, physical therapists, occupational therapists, students in professional programs, individuals using AAC, their families, and applied researchers. It provides solutions to avoid common pitfalls of prominent research designs for evaluating efficacy and discusses how to formulate research questions and deal with issues of participant selection. It suggests how to plan and evaluate the integrity and social validity of interventions.
Contents
Introduction
Efficacy and Outcomes Measurement in Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Validity: The Foundation of Evaluating the Efficacy of Interventions
Formulating Research Questions
On the Subject of Selection in AAC
Single-Subject Experimental Designs
Group Designs
Longitudinal Designs
Determining the Treatment Integrity of AAC Interventions
Determining the Social Validity of AAC Interventions
Synthesizing Efficacy Research in AAC
Toward Evidence-Based Practice in AAC
Presymbolic Communication Intervention
Selecting Graphic Symbols for an Initial Request Lexicon
Effects of AAC on Natural Speech Development
Application of Current Literacy Theory, Efficacy Research, and Clinical Practice to AAC Users
Efficacy of AAC Intervention in Individuals with Chronic Severe Aphasia
Roles of Speech Output in AAC
Evidence-Based Strategies for Promoting Generalization and Maintenance
Comparative Efficacy Studies Using Single-Subject Experimental Designs
Epilogue
