Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention for Adults
with Neurogenic Communication Disorders
Presented by Kristy Weissling and Sarah E. Wallace
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Adults with acquired communication disability can present with a variety of motor, cognitive, and linguistic issues that affect AAC use. The presenters will identify the characteristics of a variety of adult acquired communication disorders, review appropriate AAC strategies, and describe evidence-based intervention strategies.
Meet your instructors
Kristy Weissling
Kristy Weissling, SLP.D., CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her B.S. and M.S. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her professional doctorate in speech language pathology from Nova Southeastern University in 2006. She is the on-campus clinic…
Sarah E. Wallace
Sarah E. Wallace is an associate professor and program director for the Adult Language and Cognition Clinic in the Speech-Language Pathology Department at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also directs the Communication and…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Intervention for Adults with Aphasia
This chapter will cover information related to AAC interventions for people with aphasia. The chapter will cover broadly the types of AAC systems and strategies most often used by people with aphasia including no, low, and high technology strategies. Finally, the chapter will cover information related to a multimodal intervention that may be used to teach people with aphasia to flexibility use AAC strategies to achieve strategic competence.
2. Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury
This chapter will describe AAC interventions appropriate for people with TBI. The speakers will provide information on a wide range of AAC devices and strategies that are most appropriate for people with TBI. Additionally, intervention strategies to address the cognitive deficits that often accompany communication impairments in this population will be discussed.
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