A Case Study On The AAC Intervene Communication Behaviors Of Children With Cerebral Palsy

Due to inborn or acquired reasons, the communication skills of children with cerebral palsy often appear abnormal. Concretely, cerebral palsy children in active communication behavior and communication to respond to acts of both the obstacles often appear to language abnormalities, sound abnormalities, single gesture, action abnormalities, which seriously affected the development of their social contacts, so the ability to communicate children with cerebral palsy intervention is necessary.Traditional methods of intervention, including medical intervention, trunk control, and anyway, training, feeding training, articulation training, promotion of language development training. Although these methods have achieved some success, but there is still much poor speech intelligibility in children with cerebral palsy, can not serve as a means of communication. Along with social progress and technological development, in the seventies, auxiliary communication system—a non-verbal communication to communicate with the advent of barriers, bringing the gospel to a large extent resolved clarity of their language was the problem. Although the AAC intervention of communication obstacles persons ability to communicate has made a huge success, but AAC has been abandoned when the reason is because no right to make a systematic assessment of AAC. Thus, in recent years there have been many areas of secondary communication assessment model to solve the above problems, the most authoritative is the Cook Hussey proposed model of human activity Assistive Technology (HAAT), said that based on people, supporting technology, activities and scenarios 4 of the major factors to evaluate and configuration of assistive devices. Since the assessment model come out soon, as far as literature is understood that in foreign countries and China's Taiwan region on the application of the model to improve communication skills in children with cerebral palsy AAC intervention studies are scarce, and our domestic AAC's research also remain at the theoretical stage, study on the application of the model is still vacant, therefore, this study in the application of HAAT model of communication aids for children with cerebral palsy needs assessment, based on their abilitv to communicate and then involved in AAC intervention. In this study, two children with cerebral palsy were studied to explore the AAC to interfere with its initiative to respond to acts of communication behavior and communication results. Use of single subject experimental design across subjects in the multi-probe test design, and two were tested were collected in the baseline period, intervention period and to maintain communication between periods. Information-gathering ways of shooting two were tested at each stage of the communication behavior and the behaviors of the sample were recorded in the number of occurrences of the communication behavior. Finally mainly visual analysis and the C statistics for the data processing. Data processing results are:cerebral palsy children received training in AAC, its initiative to increase the frequency of communication behavior, AAC quit teaching, to take active communication behavior can be maintained, cerebral palsy children received training in AAC, its communication to respond to acts of increase in the number, AAC quit teaching, to respond to their communication behavior can be maintained.Caused by the relatively small sample of this study is shorter, the researchers had their own experience of teaching and intervention factors such as constraints, also need to follow-up study to further explore the AAC intervention in children with cerebral palsy ability to communicate results.