Utvärdering av AKKTIV föräldrautbildning
föräldrars bedömningar av barnens kommunikativa utveckling
Tidig interventionAKKAdaptivt beteendeKommunikativ utvecklingKommunikationssvårigheterEarly interventionAACAdaptive behaviourCommunicative developmentCommunicational disablities
This study investigates, through parental evaluations, communicativeand adaptive abilities within a group of children with various developmentaldisorders, after the parents had participated in AKKTIV (Augmentative andAlternative Communication ? Early Intervention) parental education. The studyalso investigates through case studies how parents experience the influence ofAKKTIV-intervention in their children?s development a few years aftercompletion. The parents estimated their children?s abilities using three differentquestionnaires; the Swedish Communicative Developmental Inventories(SECDI), Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-II (VABS-II) and parts of theform? Parents? perception of the interaction with their child?, before and afterthe intervention. Data from the questionnaires were statistically analysed usingpaired-sample t-tests. The parents? experiences of the influence of the AKKTIVinterventionwere also investigated through interviews. The results,showed thatthe children had increased their communicative abilities significantly on theSECDI form and on the receptive domain of VABS-II. Communication hadalong with socialisation developed to a higher extent than other adaptivefunctions. The overall experience reported by the parents in the case study wasthat the change after AKKTIV had been positive.