Target communication partners
• Inpatient health care providers
• May also be helpful for family members and direct support staff
Target individuals who benefit from AAC
• Hospitalized children and adolescents with a wide variety of developmental and/or acquired disabilities
• Also appropriate for infants, toddlers, and older beginning communicators with a wide range of developmental disabilities
Target strategy
• How to structure opportunities for children in the inpatient setting to communicate choices
Run time
• 9 minutes
Author
• Jessica Gormley
Supporting evidence
Gormley, J., McNaughton, D., & Light, J. (2023). Supporting Children’s Communication of Choices During Inpatient Rehabilitation: Effects of a Mobile Training for Health Care Providers. American journal of speech-language pathology, 32(2), 545–564. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00200