Updates to AACknowledge website (July 2014)

 

The following journal articles have recently been added to the AACknowledge website:

• A Developmental Continuum of Phonological Sensitivity Skills
• A systematic review of the effectiveness of nurse communication with patients with complex communication needs with a focus on the use of augmentative and alternative communication
• Augmentative and alternative communication in daily clinical practice: strategies and tools for management of severe communication disorders
• Barriers to Participation in Kindergarten Literacy Instruction for a Student with Augmentative and Alternative Communication Needs
• Communication boards in critical care: patients’ views
• Development of phonological representations and phonological awareness in children with speech impairment
• Effects of Speech and Print Feedback on Spelling by Children With Autism
• Exploring Communication Assistants as an Option for Increasing Communication Access to Communities for People who use Augmentative Communication
• Home literacy environment: characteristics of children with cerebral palsy
• Home literacy predictors of early reading development in children with cerebral palsy
• Introduction to direct/explicit instruction in reading for the struggling reader: Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
• Light Technology Augmentative Communication for Acute Care and Rehab Settings
• Nursing the patient with severe communication impairment
• Predictors of verbal working memory in children with cerebral palsy
• Reading and spelling in children with severe speech and physical impairments: a comparative study
• Simply a Speech Impairment? Literacy Challenges for Individuals with Severe Congenital Speech Impairments
• SPEACS-2: Intensive Care Unit ‘Communication Rounds’ with Speech Language Pathology
• Supporting the development of narrative skills of an eight year old who uses an augmentative and alternative communication device
• Teacher literacy expectations for kindergarten children with cerebral palsy in special education
• Teaching Decoding for Generalization Using the Nonverbal Reading Approach
• The effect of shared book reading on the acquisition of expressive vocabulary of a 7 year old who uses AAC
• The Effects of Phonological Awareness Instruction on Beginning Word Recognition and Spelling
• The National Early Literacy Panel: A Summary of the Process and the Report

Also, the following plain language summaries have been added recently (with matching short summaries):

• Barriers to Participation in Kindergarten Literacy Instruction for a Student with Augmentative and Alternative Communication Needs (summary)
• Effects of parent instruction on the symbolic communication of children using augmentative and alternative communication during storybook reading (summary)
• Please listen, it’s my turn: Instructional approaches, curricula and contexts for supporting communication and increasing access to inclusion (summary)
• Teaching Sound Letter Correspondence and Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Combinations to Young Children who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (summary)
• The effect of aided language stimulation on vocabulary acquisition in children with little or no functional speech (summary)
• The Phonological Awareness Abilities of Children with Cerebral Palsy who do not Speak (summary)
• Theory of mind in children with severe speech and physical impairment (SSPI): a longitudinal study (summary)