Support Staff-client Interactions With Augmentative and Alternative Communication
2017年12月7日 更新者：Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Support Staff's Interactions With Adults With Intellectual Disability Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication
This exploratory and observational study focuses on adults with an intellectual disability (ID) and their support workers.
Two groups of clients are observed: clients using Key Word Signing, and clients using aided Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
Approximately half of adults with ID is estimated to experience communication difficulties.
AAC supports them in their daily communication aiming at optimal participation in society.
Current communication models, such as Participation Model (Beukelman & Mirenda, 2005) and International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO, 2001), regard both client-related and environmental factors as important elements of communication.
A substantial part of the environmental factors is made up of the communication partners' characteristics.
In daycare and residential services for adults with ID the support worker is an important communication partner .
研究概览
地位
完全的
条件
详细说明
This study aims to:
with regard to teaching Key Word Signing (KWS), a specific form of AAC, to support workers:
Analyse the relation between training method, support workers' attitude, and short and long term sign knowledge.
with regard to the use of manual signs in everyday communication between support workers and adults with ID:
- Identity the support workers' characteristics that may influence the quality/quantity of the communication between adults with ID who use manual signs and their support worker.
- Analyse the nature of this influence as well as any possible interaction effects with the clients' characteristics.
- Assess whether an existing instrument, designed for measuring interactions between parents and children with cerebral palsy using AAC, may be used with adults client and support workers.
研究类型
观察性的
注册 (实际的)
40
联系人和位置
本节提供了进行研究的人员的详细联系信息，以及有关进行该研究的地点的信息。
学习地点
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Flanders
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Leuven、Flanders、比利时
- KULeuven
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Vlaams-Brabant
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Leuven、Vlaams-Brabant、比利时、3000
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Leuven、Vlaams-Brabant、比利时、3000
- KULeuven
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参与标准
研究人员寻找符合特定描述的人，称为资格标准。这些标准的一些例子是一个人的一般健康状况或先前的治疗。
资格标准
适合学习的年龄
- 孩子
- 成人
- 年长者
接受健康志愿者
是的
有资格学习的性别
全部
取样方法
非概率样本
研究人群
Support workers who work in residential facilities or day-centres for adults with intellectual disability, in Flanders.
描述
Inclusion Criteria:
- uses AAC with client
- client has congenital intellectual disability
- supports client for at least 6 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- client has dementia symptoms
- client has severe, non-corrected visual impairment
- client has diagnosed autism
学习计划
本节提供研究计划的详细信息，包括研究的设计方式和研究的衡量标准。
研究是如何设计的？
设计细节
队列和干预
团体/队列 |
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support workers & AAC users
Support workers who use KeyWordSigning in the communication with their client who has an intellectual disability
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support workers & KWS users
Support workers who use aided AAC in the communication with their client who has an intellectual disability
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研究衡量的是什么？
主要结果指标
结果测量 |
措施说明 |
大体时间 |
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Signing rate of support workers and individuals with intellectual disabilities
大体时间：Three observation sessions over period of 2 weeks per participant, 2 years for all participants
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Proportion: number of signed utterances divided by total number (spoken + exclusively spoken) of utterances
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Three observation sessions over period of 2 weeks per participant, 2 years for all participants
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Sign imitation rate support workers and individuals with intellectual disabilities
大体时间：Three observation sessions over period of 2 weeks per participant, 2 years for all participants
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Proportion: number of manual sign imitations divided by total number manual signs produced
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Three observation sessions over period of 2 weeks per participant, 2 years for all participants
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次要结果测量
结果测量 |
措施说明 |
大体时间 |
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Explicit Attitude of direct care staff towards manual signs
大体时间：One testing per participant, over period of 6 months for all participants
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Self-developed survey with subscales (Likert response): scaled score
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One testing per participant, over period of 6 months for all participants
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Implicit Attitude of direct care staff working in towards manual signs
大体时间：One testing per participant, over period of 6 months for all participants
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Single-Category Implicit Association Test scores
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One testing per participant, over period of 6 months for all participants
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Communicative functions of individuals with intellectual disabilities
大体时间：Three observation sessions over period of 2 weeks per participant, 2 years for all participants
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Proportion of responses/acknowledgement versus all communicative functions (responses/acknowledgements as well as initiations)
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Three observation sessions over period of 2 weeks per participant, 2 years for all participants
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合作者和调查者
在这里您可以找到参与这项研究的人员和组织。
调查人员
- 首席研究员：Ellen Rombouts, PhD cand.、KU Leuven
研究记录日期
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研究主要日期
学习开始 (实际的)
2014年3月1日
初级完成 (实际的)
2016年12月1日
研究完成 (实际的)
2017年5月1日
研究注册日期
首次提交
2014年3月24日
首先提交符合 QC 标准的
2014年3月26日
首次发布 (估计)
2014年3月31日
研究记录更新
最后更新发布 (实际的)
2017年12月11日
上次提交的符合 QC 标准的更新
2017年12月7日
最后验证
2017年11月1日
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