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Current Literacy Interventions For Aac Users, Payton Proud
Current Literacy Interventions For Aac Users, Payton Proud
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Purpose: Literacy provides individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) with an avenue to share their original thoughts through generative communication. There is limited research regarding literacy intervention for AAC users, particularly in high school. This study sought to (a) identify literacy interventions used with high school AAC users, (b) determine the importance placed on literacy by SLPs for high school AAC users, and (c) compare the importance of literacy intervention in high school to other ages of AAC users and other areas of intervention.
Method: Ninety-two Nebraska school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) completed an online survey to answer the …