5513V - Assessing the Relevance of Family-Centered Behaviors for AAC services

Working with families is essential for SLPs when providing AAC services to children with limited speech. This study will review the findings from the first phase of a larger investigation into the development of the Family-Centered AAC Scale (FC-AACS). The FC-AACS is being developed to measure the degree of family-centeredness experienced by parents from their child’s SLP. The FC-AACS will specifically include behaviors that parents value most during interactions with their child’s SLP. This study will discuss the development of the item pool (i.e., family-centered behaviors displayed by SLPs) and the evaluation of the validity of the proposed items (i.e., the relevancy of the items from the perspective of both SLPs and parents of children who use AAC).