AAC Chapter Seven Flashcards
Best practice is to use_____ devices.
Three
•At least one device needs to be in a different code category
CODES
•iPads, apps, and cases are E2599
OPPORTUNITY BARRIER INTERVENTIONS
- Policy Barriers
- Practice Barriers
- Knowledge and Skill Barriers
- Attitude Barriers
POLICY BARRIERS
(Medicare rules preventing attaining a device)
•Resolved through advocacy efforts
Practice barriers
Things people do, but not necessarily because of the law. “We don’t offer extended services because we don’t have enough money”
“Person minded change”
- Advocacy efforts are often needed
- Educational and sensitization efforts
- Easier to eliminate than policy barriers
- Communication Bill of Rights – Page 189
Help find a solution for them.
UALITY INDICATORS FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (QIAT)
- Quality Indicators: breaks down processes so you can grade yourself. Tells us what best practice is
- Intent Statements: back up for EBP
- List: can ask and answer questions
- ABLE Tech Videos
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL BARRIERS
Remediated through educational efforts:
- In-service training
- Courses
- Workshops
- Directed readings
- Etc.
Need to be directed toward providing: •Guided practice •Coaching or mentoring •Technical assistance •Other individualized “hands-on” efforts
ATTITUDE BARRIERS
These are the most difficult (can’t control others)
- Advocacy efforts
- Story about profane language
EVIDENCED BASED PRACTICE
•Integration of best and current research
evidence with clinical/educational expertise and relevant stakeholder perspectives
- To facilitate decisions for assessment and intervention that are deemed effective and efficient for a given stakeholder (have to evaluate outcome of the decisions over time to determine this)
- Table 7.2; Page 191
EBP PROCESS
- Asked a question
- Selected sources
- Searched literature
- Examined evidence systematically
- Applied evidence to make decisions
2 SETS OF AAC-RELATED DECISIONS
Those aimed at “today”:
•Aim to meet person’s immediate communication needs
•Match the existing capabilities and constraints identified during the assessment process
Those aimed at “tomorrow”:
•Based on projections of future opportunities, needs, constraints, and capabilities that are likely to result from instruction and practice
COMMUNICATION INTERVENTIONS:
3 COMPONENTS
- Interventions designed to increase natural abilities
- Interventions that utilize environmental adaptations
- Interventions that incorporate AAC strategies and techniques
NATURAL-ABILITY INTERVENTIONS
•Consider goals
- Consider compromise is a reasonable solution – combination of both natural-ability and AAC approaches
- 50% and 50%?
- 10% and 90%?
ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION INTERVENTIONS
- Space and location adaptations
2. Physical structure adaptations
SPACE AND LOCATION ADAPTATIONS
- Space adaptations: may be necessary for removing physical barriers
- Location adaptations: more related to the location of the person with CCN than to the equipment.
- Page 193