Since the beginning of the 21st century, the lifespan of people born with Down syndrome
(DS) has increased. They now outlive their parents and rely on their relatives who usually …

Background Understandings of 'communicative competency'(CC) have an important
influence on the ways that researchers and practitioners in augmentative and alternative …

Policy guidelines insist that people with dementia should be involved in decisions about key
life choices and transitions. However, as dementia affects both cognitive and communication …

This paper explores a common educational dilemma, namely that of how to resource
meaningful teaching and learning experiences, and the research challenge of how to …

Purpose. The study described here investigates the practice of anticipatory completion of
augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) utterances in progress. The aims were …

The iconicity of graphic symbols and the iconicity hypothesis are theoretical concepts that
have had an impact on the use of augmentative and alternative communication strategies for …

If qualitative researchers in lifelong disability are to produce authentic findings on the
experiences, perceptions and expectations of people with disabilities, research methods …

Transactional theories of communication development focus on the interplay among child,
caregiver, and environmental variables. Typically, this interplay involves symmetry between …

Whilst augmentative and alternative communication has been used for over sixty years
across many countries, in Cyprus it remains underdeveloped. The current study seeks to …

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems are not well-known and
broadly used in Thailand. To begin introducing AAC systems and interventions to children …