Affiliation:
1. Speech-Language Pathology Department, Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
2. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Abstract
Purpose:
Children with complex medical and communication needs often experience extensive or frequent hospital stays and rely on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies to communicate in this environment. Health care providers seldom receive training to effectively communicate with these children, which may lead to limited participation opportunities for the child during inpatient interactions.
Method:
A pretest–posttest experimental group design was completed to evaluate the effects of a brief mobile training designed to teach providers a procedure to support children with complex communication needs to communicate choices. Each provider participated in two pretest and two posttest interactions with children with complex communication needs during naturally occurring inpatient activities. Providers in the treatment group completed the video training, whereas providers in the control group did not.
Results:
Following the training, (a) more providers offered choices to the children during hospital routines, (b) providers implemented the trained procedure with increased accuracy, and (c) the children with complex communication needs consistently communicated their choices when given the opportunity to do so. The providers rated the training as easy to use, effective, and suited to the needs of the inpatient setting.
Conclusions:
This is the first AAC training designed to promote child–provider interactions in inpatient settings that demonstrates results that are efficient, socially valid, and effective in a real-world context. Future work is needed to develop additional brief and focused AAC partner trainings to teach providers to support the participation of children with complex communication needs in health care interactions.
Supplemental Material:
https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.22029008
Publisher
American Speech Language Hearing Association
Subject
Speech and Hearing,Linguistics and Language,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Otorhinolaryngology
Cited by
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