Structured Abstract
Setting
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Products and publications
Products: This project will result in a fully developed digital learning platform that includes professional development for SLPs and an online training and telepractice intervention for families of children who use aided AAC. The project will also result in peer-reviewed publications and presentations as well as additional dissemination products that reach education stakeholders, such as practitioners and policymakers.
Supplemental information
Co-Principal Investigator: Meadan-Kaplansky, Hedda
Project Activities: The project will use focus groups, interviews, observations, and single-case experimental designs to iteratively develop FamTAM and test the promise of the intervention for improving SLP, family, and child outcomes.
Research Design and Methods: In Phase I, the team will iteratively develop the FamTAM intervention with feedback from a panel of expert advisors that includes professors, school-based service providers, and parents, and from four online focus groups including SLPs and family members of children who use AAC. In Phase II, researchers will test the usability, feasibility, and social validity of the FamTAM intervention by implementing the training in a multiple-baseline across participants single-case design, measuring coaching fidelity, and conducting pre- and post-training interviews with SLP and family member participants. In Phase III, researchers will test the promise of the FamTAM intervention for improving SLP, family, and child outcomes in a multiple-baseline across participants single-case design.
Control Condition: Participants will serve as their own controls in the single-case designs where SLPs, family members, and children will interact as normal.
Data Analytic Strategy: Focus groups and individual interviews will be transcribed and analyzed for main ideas and themes using content analysis. Outcomes in the single-case designs (coaching fidelity and child communication) will be visually analyzed for level, trend, variability, immediacy of effects, overlap, and consistency of patterns and statistically analyzed by calculating the log response ratio.
Cost Analysis: Costs of the FamTAM intervention will be estimated using the ingredients method, with monetary values assigned based on the CostOut Tool Kit. The actual cost of the FamTAM intervention will be compared to a hypothetical in-person instruction and coaching intervention, to quantify the resources saved with the online administration.
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