Main description:

Tele-AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication Through Telepractice is the first comprehensive resource guide to Tele-AAC. Tele-AAC is the use of telepractice specifically for providing services to individuals using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). This text establishes Tele-AAC as a new service delivery model and promotes safe, efficacious, evidence-based, and ethical telepractice for patients who need AAC devices. The goal is to provide readers with fundamental information about policy and service delivery of AAC services via telepractice to enable clinical practice.
The text details the specific technical components unique to Tele-AAC service delivery, and how the technology, personnel, and service delivery practices may vary across settings and populations. It offers didactic and case-based content for speech-language pathologists across all levels, from introductory to advanced. Chapters are included that clarify and define the term Tele-AAC, highlight the procedures used while providing assessment and intervention via Tele-AAC, identify ethical and cultural considerations while providing Tele-AAC, and demonstrate its application in a variety of settings.
The content has been enriched by the input and knowledge offered by leaders from both telepractice and AAC disciplines, and offers readers the right combination of foundational information and principles to help form a base of understanding for practitioners engaging in Tele-AAC. The field of Tele-AAC is evolving and will transform as the technology changes and advances. This text provides a threshold of understanding from which the field and practitioners can grow.

Contents:

Preface

Foreword

Contributors

Reviewers

Chapter 1. Introduction to Telepractice

Jana Cason and Ellen R. Cohn

Chapter 2. Privacy, Security, and Safety

Valerie J.M. Watzlaf, Dilhari R. DeAlmeida, and Leming Zhou

Chapter 3. Tele-Ethics and Informed Consent

Ellen R. Cohn and Jana Cason

Chapter 4. Technology, the Tele-Encounter, and Digital Materials

J. Joneen Lowman and Lyn R. Covert

Chapter 5. Multicultural and Multilingual Considerations in Tele-AAC

Ashley Nkosi

Chapter 6. Client Selection, Personnel, and Environmental Supports

Michelle Boisvert and Nerissa Hall

Chapter 7. Technology for Tele-AAC: "Off the Shelf" and Advanced AAC Technology

Michelle Boisvert and Nerissa Hall

Chapter 8. Tele-AAC Principles, Practices, and Language Activity Monitoring

Katya Hill

Chapter 9. Tele-AAC Assessment

Nerissa Hall

Chapter 10. Tele-AAC Intervention

Nerissa Hall

Chapter 11. Tele-AAC Consultation

Nerissa Hall

Chapter 12. AAC for Early Childhood and School-Aged Populations

Michelle Boisvert and Nerissa Hall

Chapter 13. Tele-AAC for Adult Populations in Outpatient Settings

Telina P. Caudill, Kyle H. Mamiya, Donald L. MacLennan, and Lindsay R. James Riegler

Chapter 14. Speech Therapy in the Virtual World of People with Aphasia

Judy P. Walker

Index