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- A comparison of two approaches for representing AAC vocabulary for young children (short summary)
- A comparison of two approaches for representing AAC vocabulary for young children (summary)
- A systematic review of the effectiveness of nurse communication with patients with complex communication needs with a focus on the use of augmentative and alternative communication (short summary)
- A systematic review of the effectiveness of nurse communication with patients with complex communication needs with a focus on the use of augmentative and alternative communication (summary)
- AAC adults acquired neurological conditions (summary)
- AAC adults severe aphasia (summary)
- AAC and severe ID (short summary)
- AAC and severe ID (summary)
- AAC and social interaction (short summary)
- AAC and social interaction (summary)
- AAC and young children with disabilities - review (short summary)
- AAC and young children with disabilities - review (summary)
- AAC personnel framework - adult acquired complex communication needs (summary)
- Acceptance of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology by Persons with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (short summary)
- Acceptance of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology by Persons with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (summary)
- Acquisition, Preference and Follow-up Comparison Across Three AAC Modalities Taught to Two Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (short summary)
- Acquisition, Preference and Follow-up Comparison Across Three AAC Modalities Taught to Two Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (summary)
- Adults with complex communication needs who volunteer (summary)
- An Investigation of Aided Language Stimulation: Does it Increase AAC Use with Adults with Developmental Disabilities and Complex Communication Needs? (short summary)
- An Investigation of Aided Language Stimulation: Does it Increase AAC Use with Adults with Developmental Disabilities and Complex Communication Needs? (summary)
- Assessing AAC preferences developmental disabilities-review (short summary)
- Assessing AAC preferences developmental disabilities-review (summary)
- Augmentative and alternative communication for children with autism spectrum disorder: An evidence-based evaluation of the Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP) programme (short summary)
- Augmentative and alternative communication for children with autism spectrum disorder: An evidence-based evaluation of the Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP) programme (summary)
- Augmentative and alternative communication in daily clinical practice: strategies and tools for management of severe communication disorders (short summary)
- Augmentative and alternative communication in daily clinical practice: strategies and tools for management of severe communication disorders (summary)
- Augmentative and alternative communication supports for adults with autism spectrum disorders (short summary)
- Augmentative and alternative communication supports for adults with autism spectrum disorders (summary)
- Barriers to Participation in Kindergarten Literacy Instruction for a Student with Augmentative and Alternative Communication Needs (short summary)
- Barriers to Participation in Kindergarten Literacy Instruction for a Student with Augmentative and Alternative Communication Needs (summary)
- Bridging the gap from values to actions: a family systems framework for family-centered AAC services (short summary)
- Bridging the gap from values to actions: a family systems framework for family-centered AAC services (summary)
- Case study family intervention, eye gaze-multimodal (short summary)
- Case study family intervention, eye gaze-multimodal (summary)
- Children Who Use Communication Aids Instructing Peer and Adult Partners During Play-Based Activity (short summary)
- Children Who Use Communication Aids Instructing Peer and Adult Partners During Play-Based Activity (summary)
- Children’s joint attention in AAC (short summary)
- Children’s joint attention in AAC (summary)
- Communication Opportunities for Elementary School Students who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (short summary)
- Communication Opportunities for Elementary School Students who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (short summary)
- Communication Opportunities for Elementary School Students who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (short summary)
- Communication Opportunities for Elementary School Students who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (summary)
- Communication boards in critical care: patients’ views (short summary)
- Communication boards in critical care: patients’ views (summary)
- Communication in the ICU (short summary)
- Communication in the ICU (summary)
- Communicative participation changes in pre-school children receiving augmentative and alternative communication intervention (short summary)
- Communicative participation changes in pre-school children receiving augmentative and alternative communication intervention (summary)
- Comparison of Communication using an iPad and a Picture Based System (short summary)
- Comparison of Communication using an iPad and a Picture Based System (summary)
- Creating communicatively accessible healthcare environments: Perceptions of speech-language pathologists (short summary)
- Creating communicatively accessible healthcare environments: Perceptions of speech-language pathologists (summary)
- Developing language in a developing body (short summary)
- Developing language in a developing body (summary)
- Effects of parent instruction on the symbolic communication of children using augmentative and alternative communication during storybook reading (short summary)
- Effects of parent instruction on the symbolic communication of children using augmentative and alternative communication during storybook reading (summary)
- Evaluating the Impact of AAC Interventions in Reducing Hospitalization-related Stress: Challenges and Possibilities (short summary)
- Evaluating the Impact of AAC Interventions in Reducing Hospitalization-related Stress: Challenges and Possibilities (summary)
- Evaluation of language and communication skills in adult key word signing users with intellectual disability: Advantages of a narrative task (short summary)
- Evaluation of language and communication skills in adult key word signing users with intellectual disability: Advantages of a narrative task (summary)
- Exploring Communication Assistants as an Option for Increasing Communication Access to Communities for People who use Augmentative Communication (short summary)
- Exploring Communication Assistants as an Option for Increasing Communication Access to Communities for People who use Augmentative Communication (summary)
- Eye Gaze Technology as a Form of Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Individuals with Rett Syndrome: Experiences of Families in The Netherlands (short summary)
- Eye Gaze Technology as a Form of Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Individuals with Rett Syndrome: Experiences of Families in The Netherlands (summary)
- Eye gaze technology: a South African perspective (short summary)
- Eye gaze technology: a South African perspective (summary)
- Fundamentals of the ImPAACT Program (short summary)
- Fundamentals of the ImPAACT Program (summary)
- Fundamentals of the ImPAACT Program
- Happy and excited: Perceptions of using digital technology and social media by young people who use augmentative and alternative communication (short summary)
- Happy and excited: Perceptions of using digital technology and social media by young people who use augmentative and alternative communication (summary)
- Initial Insights into Phoneme Awareness Intervention for Children with Complex Communication Needs (short summary)
- Initial Insights into Phoneme Awareness Intervention for Children with Complex Communication Needs (summary)
- Interpretation and Construction of Meaning of Bliss-words in Children (short summary)
- It’s good to talk: developing the communication skills of an adult with an intellectual disability through augmentative and alternative communication (short summary)
- It’s good to talk: developing the communication skills of an adult with an intellectual disability through augmentative and alternative communication (summary)
- Joint decision making using Talking Mats (short summary)
- Joint decision making using Talking Mats (summary)
- Language predictors in ASD (short summary)
- Language predictors in ASD (summary)
- Light Technology Augmentative Communication for Acute Care and Rehab Settings (short summary)
- Light Technology Augmentative Communication for Acute Care and Rehab Settings (summary)
- Measurement of the Visual Attention Patterns of People with Aphasia (short summary)
- Measurement of the Visual Attention Patterns of People with Aphasia (summary)
- Mentoring to support people learning to use speech generating devices (short summary)
- Mentoring to support people learning to use speech generating devices (summary)
- Mobile Technology: Benefits and Challenges (short summary)
- Mobile Technology: Benefits and Challenges (summary)
- Non-electronic communication aids (short summary)
- Non-electronic communication aids (summary)
- Nursing the patient with severe communication impairment (short summary)
- Nursing the patient with severe communication impairment (summary)
- Parenting a child who needs AAC (short summary)
- Parenting a child who needs AAC (summary)
- Participation of children with CCN (short summary)
- Participation of children with CCN (summary)
- Please listen, it's my turn: Instructional approaches, curricula and contexts for supporting communication and increasing access to inclusion (short summary)
- Please listen, it's my turn: Instructional approaches, curricula and contexts for supporting communication and increasing access to inclusion (summary)
- Post-school quality of life (short summary)
- Post-school quality of life (summary)
- Predicting progress in Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) use by children with autism (short summary)
- Predicting progress in Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) use by children with autism (summary)
- Professionals’ and parents’ shared learning in blended learning networks related to communication and augmentative and alternative communication for people with severe disabilities (short summary)
- Professionals’ and parents’ shared learning in blended learning networks related to communication and augmentative and alternative communication for people with severe disabilities (summary)
- Providing instructional support for AAC service delivery in low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries (short summary)
- Providing instructional support for AAC service delivery in low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries (summary)
- SPEACS-2: Intensive Care Unit ‘‘Communication Rounds’’ with Speech Language Pathology (short summary)
- SPEACS-2: Intensive Care Unit ‘‘Communication Rounds’’ with Speech Language Pathology (summary)
- Skydive of communication interaction (short summary)
- Skydive of communication interaction (summary)
- Social Interactions of Students with Disabilities Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Inclusive Classrooms (short summary)
- Social Interactions of Students with Disabilities Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Inclusive Classrooms (summary)
- Social media experiences of adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy who use augmentative and alternative communication (short summary)
- Social media experiences of adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy who use augmentative and alternative communication (summary)
- Speaker Transfer in Children’s Peer Conversation (short summary)
- Speaker Transfer in Children’s Peer Conversation (summary)
- Speech and language therapists’ approaches to communication intervention with children and adults with profound and multiple learning disability? (short summary)
- Speech and language therapists’ approaches to communication intervention with children and adults with profound and multiple learning disability? (summary)
- Speech segmentation (short summary)
- Speech segmentation (summary)
- Speech-Generating Devices Used at Home by Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (short summary)
- Speech-Generating Devices Used at Home by Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (summary)
- Study of Gaze Toward Humans in Photographs by Individuals with Autism, Down Syndrome, or Other Intellectual Disabilities (short summary)
- Study of Gaze Toward Humans in Photographs by Individuals with Autism, Down Syndrome, or Other Intellectual Disabilities (summary)
- Systematic Review of the Effects of Interventions to Promote Peer Interactions for Children who use Aided AAC (short summary)
- Systematic Review of the Effects of Interventions to Promote Peer Interactions for Children who use Aided AAC (summary)
- Teaching 1:1 workers to support young children with CCN (short summary)
- Teaching 1:1 workers to support young children with CCN (summary)
- Teaching Early Numeracy Skills Using Single Switch Voice-Output Devices to Students with Severe Multiple Disabilities (short summary)
- Teaching Early Numeracy Skills Using Single Switch Voice-Output Devices to Students with Severe Multiple Disabilities (summary)
- Teaching Graphic Symbol Combinations to Children with Limited Speech During Shared Story Reading (short summary)
- Teaching Graphic Symbol Combinations to Children with Limited Speech During Shared Story Reading (summary)
- Teaching Sound Letter Correspondence and Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Combinations to Young Children who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (short summary)
- Teaching Sound Letter Correspondence and Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Combinations to Young Children who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (summary)
- Technology for people, not disabilities: ensuring access and inclusion (short summary)
- Technology for people, not disabilities: ensuring access and inclusion (summary)
- The Effects of PECS Teaching to Phase III on the Communicative Interactions between Children with Autism and their Teachers (short summary)
- The Effects of PECS Teaching to Phase III on the Communicative Interactions between Children with Autism and their Teachers (summary)
- The Loneliness Experiences of Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy who use Alternative and Augmentative Communication (short summary)
- The Loneliness Experiences of Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy who use Alternative and Augmentative Communication (summary)
- The Oral Core Vocabulary of Typically Developing English-Speaking School-Aged Children: Implications for AAC Practice (short summary)
- The Oral Core Vocabulary of Typically Developing English-Speaking School-Aged Children: Implications for AAC Practice (summary)
- The Phonological Awareness Abilities of Children with Cerebral Palsy who do not Speak (summary)
- The Phonological Awareness Abilities of Children with Cerebral Palsy who do not Speak (short summary)
- The Vocabulary of Beginning Writers: Implications for Children with Complex Communication Needs (short summary)
- The Vocabulary of Beginning Writers: Implications for Children with Complex Communication Needs (summary)
- The effect of aided language stimulation on vocabulary acquisition in children with little or no functional speech (short summary)
- The effect of aided language stimulation on vocabulary acquisition in children with little or no functional speech (summary)
- The effect of shared book reading on the acquisition of expressive vocabulary of a 7 year old who uses AAC (short summary)
- The effect of shared book reading on the acquisition of expressive vocabulary of a 7 year old who uses AAC (summary)
- Theory of mind in children with severe speech and physical impairment (SSPI): a longitudinal study (short summary)
- Theory of mind in children with severe speech and physical impairment (SSPI): a longitudinal study (summary)
- Typical children’s graphic sequences (short summary)
- Typical children’s graphic sequences (summary)
- Use of augmentative and alternative communication strategies by family members in the intensive care unit (short summary)
- Use of augmentative and alternative communication strategies by family members in the intensive care unit (summary)
- Using AAC to communicate with medical staff (short summary)
- Using AAC to communicate with medical staff (summary)
- Using Talking Mats to support communication in persons with Huntington's Disease (short summary)
- Using Talking Mats to support communication in persons with Huntington's Disease (summary)
- Using different methods to communicate: how adults with severe acquired communication difficulties make decisions about the communication methods they use and how they experience them (short summary)
- Using different methods to communicate: how adults with severe acquired communication difficulties make decisions about the communication methods they use and how they experience them (summary)
- Visual support for language in ASD (short summary)
- Visual support for language in ASD (summary)
- Working memory in children’s language comprehension (short summary)
- Working memory in children’s language comprehension (summary)
- iPads, Mobile Technologies, and Communication Applications: A Survey of Family Wants, Needs, and Preferences (summary)
- iPads, Mobile Technologies, and Communication Applications: A Survey of Family Wants, Needs, and Preferences (short summary)
- ‘‘It’s got to be more than that’’. Parents and speech-language pathologists discuss training content for families with a new speech generating device (short summary)
- ‘‘It’s got to be more than that’’. Parents and speech-language pathologists discuss training content for families with a new speech generating device (summary)