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Developmental and Augmented Intervention for Facilitating Expressive Language
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating JAE Intervention for Joint Engagement + Enhanced Milieu Training and Joint Engagement + Enhanced Milieu Training+Augmentative Communication (AAC). Completed, enrolled 96 participants across 3 sites.
Detailed Summary
This study will contrast two experimental treatment conditions by testing whether joint attention/joint engagement intervention using spoken communication (JAE-EMT) results in better outcomes than joint attention/joint engagement intervention that is instead supplemented with an individualized AAC system (JAE-AAC). Thus, the skills of joint attention/joint engagement (JAE) remain foundational to developing expressive language but the difference in the two treatments will be between whether the JAE is administered through the more traditional spoken means (EMT) or through an augmentative and alternative communication device (AAC).
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The overall goal in each session will be for the caregiver-child dyad to be in a state of supported or coordinated joint engagement. In this state the child is aware of the other's activity, and may actively coordinate their attention between an object/toy and the caregiver. The interventionist will coach the caregiver and child while they engage in play routines established through collaboration between caregiver and interventionist.