전자의사소통도구를 활용한 AAC 중재가 중도 뇌성마비 학생의 의사소통행동에 미치는 효과

Abstract

Abstract

The Effect of AAC Intervention Using Electronic Communication Device on the Communicative Behaviors of Students with Severe Cerebral Palsy

Eun-ja Im. Advisor : Prof. Eun-hee Jeong, PH. D. Major in Special Education Graduate School of Education, Chosun University

Augmentative and Alternative Communication(AAC) intervention was started to help students with severe cerebral palsy improve communicative ability and take part in their community in Korea recently and is expanding towards a more variety of fields of students with handicapped. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate what kind of AAC devices were recognized to students with severe cerebral palsy efficiently and to offer information for developing AAC devices to help students with severe cerebral palsy improve their communicative ability and take part in their community actively. The subjects were 3 students with severe cerebral palsy. In this study, I examined the effect that AAC intervention using Electronic Communication Device developed in Korea recently has on the proper communicative behaviors in the school, home, and their community. This study conducted research baseline, intervention, and maintenance test by multiple probe baseline design across the participants. Treatment was implemented three times per week during in vocational class and the class for the developmental programs. The intervention locations were the classrooms of special education schools. Maintenance was measured for follow-up three sessions after four weeks after termination of the intervention in the same condition as previous. All of the collected materials were analyzed by the procedure; the frequency of behavior and function. The results of this study are as follow; First, AAC Intervention Using Electronic Communication Device increased the frequency of communicative behaviors of all the three subjects with severe cerebral palsy. Even after the intervention, this condition remained in higher quality than the beginning. Second, AAC Intervention Using Electronic Communication Device diversified the communication functions and such changed functions maintained in higher quality than the beginning. These results show that the AAC Intervention Using Electronic Communication Device increases the frequency of the communication behaviors and affects the communication function. Also, this study discussed the efficiency of AAC Intervention Using Electronic Communication Device developed in Korea recently and the effect of preceding studies on the AAC Interventions.