Barbara Collier
8 Papers
58 Citations
Barbara Collier is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Augmentative and alternative communication & Service provider. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 8 publications.
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Communicative interaction between young nonspeaking physically disabled children and their primary caregivers: Part I—discourse patterns
TL;DR: In this article, the communicative interaction patterns of eight congenitally nonspeaking physically disabled children and their primary caregivers were analyzed in a free play situation for 20 minutes, and the data were analyzed to reflect the frequencies of specific communicative behaviors of the participants and the patterns of interactional sequences within the conversations.
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Transition through multiple augmentative and alternative communication systems: a three-year case study of a head injured adolescent
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an assessment and intervention with a head injured adolescent over a three-year period, which illustrates a two-pronged assessment-intervention model which not only addresses the client's needs and skills, but also provides support and training for facilitators.
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Reducing the risk of sexual abuse for people who use augmentative and alternative communication.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the majority of participants in this project have experienced a range of abuses including sexual abuse, lack information about healthy and abusive relationships, have no way of communicating about sexuality and abuse, and lack supports in their personal lives and from within the community-at-large that are necessary to cope with relationship difficulties.
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Building competencies in augmentative and alternative communication among professionals
TL;DR: A three-pronged training and support model to develop competencies in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for professionals is described in this paper, which includes competency in AAC at an awareness level, basic AAC competencies for speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists, and specialized AAC for transdisciplinary AAC service providers.
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Communicative interaction between young nonspeaking physically disabled children and their primary caregivers: Part III—modes of communication
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the communicative interaction patterns of eight congenitally nonspeaking physically disabled children (between the ages of 4 and 6 years) and their primary caregivers in a free play situation for 20 minutes.