Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Challenges and Solutions - Softcover

Billy T. Ogletree

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1635502861 ISBN 13: 9781635502862

Publisher: Plural Publishing, Inc., 2021

Synopsis

Providers of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) face a myriad of challenges in a rapidly changing and developing field. Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Challenges and Solutions is a unique solution-oriented text intended to prepare professionals to face those challenges with a “can do” perspective. Featuring contributions from prominent AAC researchers and providers, as well as actual AAC users, this resource traverses a wide range of scenarios that clinicians deal with on a daily basis.

Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Challenges and Solutions is divided into five sections with each chapter offering a different evidence-based solution. Part I provides an introduction and basis for the rest of the book. Part II focuses on the unique challenges of providing AAC in childhood, while Part III centers on dealing with adult disorders. In Part IV, the authors delve into special populations and issues, such as assisting individuals with multiple disabilities. In Part V, clinicians will find tips for becoming a solution-oriented provider.

Key Features

• Contributions from national experts in AAC
• Quotes and vignettes representing the experiences of actual AAC users
• Featured challenges faced by providers and users alike
• Evidence-based solutions for ready application in clinical contexts
• Tools for implementing certain strategies, including example meeting scripts
• A comprehensive glossary of terms
• A highly readable writing style
• An introductory chapter with bolded key terms to improve retention of the material<br />  

About this title

About the Author

Billy T. Ogletree, PhD, CCC-SLP, is the Catherine Brewer Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Carolina University. His research interests include the communicative abilities and needs of persons with servere disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Ogletree's AAC experiences included service provision in several settings (schools, hospitals, and university clinics), AAC instruction at the graduate level, reviewer and associate editor roles with the AAC journal, related publications in several journals and book series, and a term as AAC program coordinator for the 2012 annual conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Dr. Ogletree is an ASHA Fellow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Plural Publishing, Inc.
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1635502861
• ISBN 13: 9781635502862
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Ogletree Billy T.