JCPSLP Vol 21 No 3 2019

Multimodal communication

From the editor Jae-Hyun Kim

Contents

W elcome to the final issue of 2019. In this issue, we focus on multimodal communication. We begin with Professor Teresa Iacono’s article on the evolution of how multimodality has been considered in the field of augmentative and alterative communication in speech-language pathology clinical practice. This article is followed by a considered and critical take on multimodal communication by Scott Barnes. Together these two articles provide invaluable insights of the past, the present and the future of multimodal communication as it is contextualised within speech-language pathology clinical practice. Many of our readers will be familiar with these two authors. I am grateful for their willingness to share their knowledge with us. The third article is by Andy Smidt who provides a practical guide to developing holistic, ecologically valid intervention approaches for people with

125 From the editor 126 An exploration of

multimodality in augmentative and alternative communication – Teresa Iacono

131 Improving the ideas behind multimodal communication – Scott Barnes 135 TEAM – A taxonomy of clinical decision-making for communication intervention in people with severe intellectual disability including AAC – Andy Smidt 143 Capacity building outcomes of Kids Chat 2 You: A state-wide service providing families with augmentative and alternative communication services

intellectual disabilities. Although the article is written for students and early career speech- language pathologists, even experienced speech-language pathologists will find the taxonomy presented in this article useful. The fourth article is presented by speech-language pathologists at Scope and La Trobe University. They report on a community capacity building project, Kids Chat 2 You. Our clinical practice is becoming increasingly community-based and it is great to get insights into a community capacity-building program from experienced speech-language pathologists. In the fifth article, speech-language pathologists at Bendigo Health report on the prevalence of patients requiring assistance to communicate their health care needs. I thank the authors for bringing to our attention once again that communication is an essential component in the provision of quality health care and that speech-language pathologists have a unique role in ensuring and facilitating effective communication for our clients. In this issue, we also have an opportunity to present other important areas of speech- language pathology clinical practice. The first of these articles is on complex feeding decisions, contributed by our colleagues in Queensland. You may recognise the lead author, Maria Schwarz, as the recipient of the Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology Editor’s Award. This is a great article describing and providing a critical look at the current practice patterns involving complex feeding decisions. The last of our research articles in this issue is on further predictions of Lidcombe Program treatment time. A collaboration between the speech-language pathologists at Stuttering Unit in Sydney and University of Technology Sydney, this article reports on variables involved in influencing Lidcombe Program treatment time. This will be a very interesting article for those who are working with children who stutter. Our issue would not be complete without an ethical conversation. This issue’s “Ethical conversation” is about novice speech-language pathologists working in alternative and augmentative communication. “Around the journals” section reviews a recent systematic review on the barriers and facilitators to the provision and use of low-tech and unaided alternative and augmentative communication systems. “Resource review” looks at a web resource focused on support and implementation of alternative and augmentative communication. In our issue’s final section on “Top 10 resources”, Harmony Turnbull shares with us the ways to support accessible communication for people of all ages. This issue would not have been possible without the authors and I thank them sincerely. As always, and particularly for this issue, I am grateful for the support provided by our publication manager Rebecca Faltyn and our production team Carla Taines and Bruce Godden.

– Hilary Johnson, Marion Van Nierop, Alison Heppell, Jasmin Prewett, and Teresa Iacono

149 Prevalence of patients requiring assistance to

communicate their health care needs – Jacqui McCrabb, Tracy Sheldrick, and Jemma Tulloch

154 A retrospective cohort study of complex feeding decisions: Informing dysphagia decision- making through patient experiences – Maria Schwarz, Anne Coccetti, Elizabeth Cardell, Tanya Hirst, and Lucy Lyons

159 Further predictors of

Lidcombe Program treatment time – Verity MacMillan, Stacey Sheedy, and Mark Onslow

165 Ethical conversations: Ethical considerations for AAC novice – Alison Moorcroft, Jane Burrett, and Hannah Gutke

169 Around the journals 170 Resource review 171 Top 10 resources for

multimodal communication – Two-way multimodal communication across the lifespan – Harmony Turnbull

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