A Research Review of AAC Partner Training Program for Individuals with Disabilities

Abstract

This study examined on the experimental studies about augmentative and alternative communication system(AAC) to implement AAC communication partner training programs. A total of 9 selected studies were analyzed, participants a total of 37, most school age children, communication partners about 369 showed that the largest number of teachers. In 4 studies, single subject research design was used to measure the effectiveness of the intervention. Communication partners for the training phase and Kent-Walsh and McNaughton(2005) have proposed a framework for analyzing the training phase was analyzed as a whole, step 1, step 2, step 5 has been used for more than one of the sub items, in all studies the interaction promotion strategies were used. Utilized in studies on the low-teach to high tech AAC tools used in various ways, and can be used study the vocabulary into 20~2,000 respectively. Based on these results, this study was to address in difference between foreign and domestic researches, issues and future research direction were discussed.