Major focus area

Speech Therapy -> Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Short description

AAC intervention benefits individuals with developmental disabilities who have significant speech and language impairments by enhancing their communicative competence and facilitating the development of language skills. The SLP provides education, training, and programming of AAC devices and monitors effects on communicative competences, social interactions, language skills, and speech production (Miller, et al 2006).

Long description

AAC intervention benefits individuals with developmental disabilities who have significant speech and language impairments by enhancing their communicative competence and facilitating the development of language skills. The SLP provides education, training, and programming of AAC devices and monitors effects on communicative competences, social interactions, language skills, and speech production (Miller, et al 2006).

Reference links

• The Impact of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention On the Speech Production of Individuals With Developmental Disabilities: a Research Review 0
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  Author: Diane C Millar, Janice C Light, Ralf W Schlosser - This article presents the results of a meta-analysis to determine the effect of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) on the speech production of individuals with developmental disabilities.