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AAC AND ASSESSMENT

The AAC field as a whole has moved sharply away from traditional models of service delivery to more community based, collaborative approaches to intervention. Observations made outside a clinical setting have changed our perceptions about what is important and are affecting our assessment practices. It is time to embark on a serious dialogue about the AAC assessment process. In this issue we begin to scratch the surface by asking, "What is the perceived value of AAC assessments? What do various stakeholders expect? What is the assessment process as it varies across the life span and for different populations? What should we be measuring?"

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1. AAC assessment: Stakeholder views. Considers the perspectives of various types of participants (or stakeholders) in the assessment process
2. Nagi’s Taxonomy of Disability: Helps to define the purpose of AAC assessments using the World Health Organization’s Model
3. AAC loan programs: A rationale. Report on results of an AAC device loan program in the Los Angeles Unified School District
4. What master clinicians do and think. A list of questions, tools and desired outcomes of AAC assessments
5. Just an idea. The need for validation of theory and clinical techniques
6. References
7. Resources: List of those interviewed in preparing the issue

 

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