Research priorities in augmentative and alternative communication as identified by people who use AAC and their facilitators
Research priorities in augmentative and alternative communication as identified by people who use AAC and their facilitators
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使用 AAC 的人和他们的协调者确定的增强型和替代性沟通的研究重点
DOI：
10.1080/07434610601116517
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
R. Schuller
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作者：
Bernard M O'Keefe;Natalie Bahry Kozak;R. Schuller
两个焦点小组由使用AAC的成年人组成，两个焦点小组由加拿大安大略省的成人AAC促进者组成，他们被要求确定自己的AAC研究重点，并说明他们对先前确定的AAC研究重点的同意程度。除一名在两岁时致残的参与者外，使用AAC的焦点小组成员自出生以来都有身体残疾。使用焦点小组方法和分析，参与者被要求产生他们自己的AAC研究重点。一份调查问卷和李克特式量表被用来确定他们与十年前由美国国家耳聋和其他交流障碍研究所（NIDCD）资助的一组AAC研究人员设定的六个研究重点的一致程度。焦点小组成员强调了以下方面的重要性：(a)帮助使用AAC的人在维持友谊、约会和找工作等情况下取得成功；(b)改善其AAC装置的服务；(c)改进高技术和低技术设备的技术；(d)提高公众对空气质素谘询服务使用者的认识；(e)改进向使用AAC的人教授阅读技巧的方法；(f)改善对所有医疗保健专业人员的AAC通信培训。
Two focus groups comprised of adults who used AAC and two focus groups comprised of adult AAC facilitators in Ontario, Canada were asked to identify their own AAC research priorities and to state their levels of agreement with previously identified research priorities in AAC. Members of the focus group who used AAC had physical disabilities since birth except one participant who became disabled at age 2 years. Using focus group methodology and analysis, the participants were asked to generate their own AAC research priorities. A questionnaire and Likert-type scale was used to determine their levels of agreement with six research priorities set a decade earlier by a group of AAC researchers sponsored by the United States-based National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). Focus group members stressed the importance of (a) preparing people who use AAC to succeed in situations such as maintaining friendships, dating, and finding jobs; (b) improving service delivery of their AAC devices; (c) improving technology in high tech and low tech devices; (d) increasing public awareness of people who use AAC; (e) improving methods of teaching reading skills to people who use AAC; and (f) improving AAC communications training for all healthcare professionals.