{"id":81,"date":"2014-10-22T17:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2014-10-22T17:05:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T12:05:10","slug":"supervisory-notes-resources-related-to-aac-aphasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/22\/supervisory-notes-resources-related-to-aac-aphasia\/","title":{"rendered":"10.22.2014: Supervisory Notes — Resources related to AAC & Aphasia"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is considerably more I would like to someday do to collect my thoughts around AAC and persons who have aphasia, but for now I just wanted to document the resources I have used to-date to inform my process with assessment and intervention.<\/p>\n

One of my challenges here is that this clinic is typically the “last” stop\/hope for folks — more often than not, they’ve \u00a0already been through acute care facilities, outpatient rehab, and whatever home care their insurance would pay for. \u00a0I am usually consulted (a) when other efforts have proved unproductive and\/or (b) there’s no more money. \u00a0This frequently means that there may well be a lot of non-functional habits and frustration built up. \u00a0As a result, what we do here may be very different than I would do if I was at any of the prior stages (front line\/acute care, outpatient, in-home).<\/div>\n
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That said, my bias is clear: \u00a0I am strongly in favor of multimodal intervention for pretty much any\/everyone. \u00a0I signed and used visual schedules made from Boardmaker symbols with my own children as infants, I used hand signals and visual cues for kids with artic\/language and fluency, I write things out and provide visual aids with graduate students seeking a Master’s degree, and I would never never never meet with someone I knew had experienced a brain event and just talk to them and plan for them to just talk to me. \u00a0 \u00a0In short, I feel like my own sense of myself as an SLP aligns pretty well\u00a0by the Beukelman & Mirenda Participation Model which is described in their AAC text.<\/div>\n
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As it applies specifically to persons with aphasia, there is additional information about the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia:
\n– ASHA statement:\u00a0http:\/\/www.asha.org\/public\/speech\/disorders\/LPAA\/<\/a>
\n– ASHA Leader article:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/1wjDQr7<\/a>
\n– Supporting Communication for Adults with Acute and Chronic Aphasia<\/a> (Simmons-Mackie, King, & Beukelman, 2013)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I feel like the AAC Aphasia Screening materials from the University of Nebraska Lincoln,\u00a0http:\/\/aac.unl.edu\/screen\/screen.html<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0may be helpful to “aid in determining whether the person with aphasia can benefit from partner dependent or independent alternative communication strategies” (quote from the Purpose description, p. 3).<\/div>\n
I have also found the following courses throughwww.speechpathology.com<\/a>\u00a0to be enormously helpful:
\n* #5361 AAC and Aphasia by Sarah Wallace
\n* #4208 Use of AAC Devices and Strategies for People with Aphasia by Sarah Wallace
\n– #5157 Steps to Success with Technology for individuals with Aphasia by Denise McCall
\n– #5742 AAC Medicare\/Medicaid Funding and Documentation by Patricia Ourand
\n* #5138 Selecting Apps for Therapy: A tutorial for SLPs on using an EBP model to assist with choosing intervention tools by Lara Wakefield & Theresa Schaber
\n* #5186 The PICO Template for Reviewing Speech-Language Therapy Apps: A decision-making tool for SLPs by Lara Wakefield & Theresa Schaber
\n– #5781 AAC Apps: \u00a0Finding the Right One For Your Client by Carole Zangari
\n* #5518 Denial of Deficits and Aphasia by George Wallace
\n* #5068 Coping with the impact of Aphasia: \u00a0What do Significant Others Need and How Can SLPs Help? by Barbara B. Shadden
\n* #6079 Helping Clients and Families Attain Their Goals: \u00a0A Basic Counseling Function by Audrey Holland — although this is described as being generally about counseling (and it is), the examples are more specific to persons with aphasia.
\n– #5447 Counseling Around the Edges by Audrey Holland
\n– #4995 Counseling and Communication Disorders: \u00a0Working with Feelings and Emotions by Michael FlahiveThese are roughly in the order that I might rank them in strength\/value related to Aphasia, plus the asterisks represent the best within each category. \u00a0Many of these are available in a variety of formats although I tended to take the “Text” courses when possible. \u00a0There are other Aphasia, Aphasia & AAC, & apps decision-making resources at\u00a0www.speechpathology.com<\/a>\u00a0I just haven’t gotten to them yet.<\/div>\n
Finally, the AAC-RERC has a free webcast on AAC for Aphasia: A Review of Visual Scenes Display Project:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/1nwWn3q<\/a>\u00a0and an example funding report:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/1t5dawn<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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