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What population was studied in McKelvey's study (2007)? |
indv who had chronic aphasia. Look if there was way to document pt using AAC. don’t make progress in traditional approach. What can we do for this population? |
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Why aren’t more indv with aphasia using AAC? |
-Easily id as candidates for AAC -Get treatment in hospital, as they progress, go to rehab, and then go home (no treatment at home) -Don’t do AAC until they really need to -Get recommended AAC when they are discharged -Only those with strong advocates will bother with AAC (the wealthy) |
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What is a visual scene display? |
-Will be single words and single messages -But there will be phrases -Have regular vocabulary, but need access to common vocabulary in same spot (to speed up comm process) |
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What was the objective of the study? |
-Wanted to see pt with chronic aphasia participate with AAC with unfamiliar partners and multiple partners -Measure 3 different dependables -Try to get him to stop talking about his disabilities -Navigational talk (ex. Let’s see… talk your thoughts outloud) - try to decrease it bc not natural |
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Who was the participant? Who were the partners |
-Nonfluent aphasia, Broca’s, hemiparisis and apraxia -Word retrieval issues -20 different adults to talk to him |
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Why choose unfamiliar partners? |
- results may be different if clients get used to the communication partners -To see how they do with small talk |
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What did researchers find? |
Disability talk decreased, generalization from theme 1 to 2 navigation/organization talk decreased while in baseline Inappropriate question/answer exchanges dramatically decrease |
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Hanson in intelligibility |
-Pacing (per word) does only works with ppl with outstanding metalinguistic skills because of cognitive load -Tapping by the syllable is faster and easier |
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What is alphabet supplementation? Why use it? |
-take alphabet board and ask person to point to first letter of board -Have to have metalinguistic skills and be good at spelling, a little bit more demanding -If have someone use alphabet supplementation, speech intelligibility raised by 25% Why? - because more context clues what you’re saying |
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What is direct selection?
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-don’t have to go through icons or symbols to get to what your target, get to your target immediately -User access all choices on array at any time |
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What does the direct selection chooses? |
-Systems may have keyboard with keys that depress, keyboards with keys that have very little/no movement, touch screens -Keys may provide feedback (visual, tactile, auditory) |
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What is indirect selection? |
have to go through symbols before getting to your target May use fingers, hands, head/chin sticks, adaptive pointers, other body parts |
