TY - JOUR
T1 - AAC modeling intervention research review
AU - Sennott, Samuel C.
AU - Light, Janice C.
AU - McNaughton, David
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The study received funding from Office of Special Education Programs, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to support the first author's doctoral studies.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Author(s).
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - A systematic review of research on the effects of interventions that include communication partner modeling of aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) on the language acquisition of individuals with complex communication needs was conducted. Included studies incorporated AAC modeling as a primary component of the intervention, defined as the communication partners (a) modeling aided AAC as they speak and (b) participating in the context of a naturalistic communication interaction. This review used a best-evidence approach, including nine single-case studies, with 31 participants, and 70 replications, and one quasi-experimental randomized group design study, including 63 participants. The results of the review indicated that AAC modeling intervention packages led to meaningful linguistic gains across four areas including (a) pragmatics, marked by increases in communication turns; (b) semantics, marked by receptive and expressive vocabulary increases; (c) syntax, marked by multi-symbol turn increases; and (d) morphology, marked by increases in target morphology structures.
AB - A systematic review of research on the effects of interventions that include communication partner modeling of aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) on the language acquisition of individuals with complex communication needs was conducted. Included studies incorporated AAC modeling as a primary component of the intervention, defined as the communication partners (a) modeling aided AAC as they speak and (b) participating in the context of a naturalistic communication interaction. This review used a best-evidence approach, including nine single-case studies, with 31 participants, and 70 replications, and one quasi-experimental randomized group design study, including 63 participants. The results of the review indicated that AAC modeling intervention packages led to meaningful linguistic gains across four areas including (a) pragmatics, marked by increases in communication turns; (b) semantics, marked by receptive and expressive vocabulary increases; (c) syntax, marked by multi-symbol turn increases; and (d) morphology, marked by increases in target morphology structures.
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U2 - 10.1177/1540796916638822
DO - 10.1177/1540796916638822
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84978864159
SN - 1540-7969
VL - 41
SP - 101
EP - 115
JO - Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities
JF - Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities
IS - 2
ER -
