Description
For professionals working in AAC, the use of outcome measures to track progress towards goals can be a vital part of clinical decision making. Robust outcome measurement can help ensure that intervention and support is appropriately provided at both an individual and service level. Equally, the setting and evaluating of appropriate, individualised goals facilitates the identification of appropriate AAC techniques and systems, allowing all stakeholders to make changes and adjustments to work towards the best possible outcomes.This paper will present a case series of patients seen in the Augmentative Communication Service (ACS) at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). All children (n=50) in the study were given loans of high-tech AAC systems and were set goals for the duration of these loans. The goals were categorised according to Janice Light’s (1989, 2014) framework of communicative competencies and were evaluated at the end of the loan period at a multi-stakeholder meeting with the child, family, local professionals and members of the ACS team and goals were
ranked according to level of achievement. An outcome measure - Therapy Outcome Measures (TOMS, Enderby et al, 2006) - was used to measure children’s participation. Decisions for intervention were made as a result of these discussions.
The paper will present an analysis of the data generated from this group and provide insight into how the use of these goals and outcome measures guided the decision-making process for all those involved in the AAC assessment. The relationship between the achievement of goals and the decision to provide or make changes to the AAC system will be discussed. We will explain the assessment process, the evaluation and discuss how the use of this system and the data generated has guided the development of clinical pathways within a specialist service.
Period | 11 Sept 2017 |
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Event title | Communication Matters : CM2017 National AAC Conference |
Event type | Conference |
Location | Leeds, United KingdomShow on map |
Degree of Recognition | National |
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Factors Contributing to Successful AAC Provision: Insights from a Case Series
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Research Outputs
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What can combined TOM-AAC data tell an AAC Service about the difference we make to clients?
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster