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Project

Speak My Language! Using Visual Symbols for Supported Decision Making by People Who Use AAC

Center:

OR-Oregon Institute on Development & Disability, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2021

Contact Information:

Melanie Fried-Oken
[email protected]
503-494-7587

Project Description:

Speak My Language! Using visual symbols for supported decision making by people who use AAC is a partnership with the UCEDD at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the Community Vision Assistive Technology Lab. The project will work to develop educational tools, symbol-based Patient Decision Aids for Supported Decision Making (PDAs for SDM) for adults with I/DD who use AAC with limited literacy skills. The partnership will conduct focus groups with AAC users about symbol and literacy needs for informed consent and health topics, develop symbol-based PDAs for SDM, evaluate their use in a hospital clinic and a community-based clinic that serve AAC users and widely disseminate the products through a web-based resource hub and provider trainings.

Keyword(s):

Core Function(s):

Performing Research or Evaluation, Developing & Disseminating Information

Area of Emphasis

Health-Related Activities, Quality of Life, Other - Assistive Technology

Target Audience:

Community Trainees / Short term trainees, Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers, Adults with Disabilities, Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN

Unserved or Under-served Populations:

Specific Groups

Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:

State, National

Funding Source:

COVID-19 Related Data:

N/A

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