An Assistive-Technology Intervention for Verbose Speech After Traumatic Brain Injury

Kirsch, Ned L.; Shenton, Michelle; Spirl, Erin; Simpson, Richard; LoPresti, Edmund F.; Schreckenghost, Debra

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“…Facilitators reported that the morning reminder was a minimal intervention compared to their typical pattern of providing students with prompts throughout the day related to their schedules. Results from this study are similar to the success in small-scale adult studies of handheld organizers (Kim et al, 1999(Kim et al, , 2000Kirsch et al, 2004;Wright et al, 2001). They all suggested that handheld organizers enhanced the ability of patients to complete suggested tasks with less direct intervention from those around them.…”

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“…Of the 32 studies Sohlberg et al (2007) reported on regarding the use of external memory devices with persons with TBI, only four studies evaluated the use of electronic memory handheld devices (Kim, Burke, Dowds, & George, 1999;Kim et al, 2000;Kirsch et al, 2004;Wright et al, 2001). Although these studies reported success in specific guided tasks, there is some question about how often electronic organizers are actually used independently for tasks related to activities of daily living.…”

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Do PDAs enhance the organization and memory skills of students with cognitive disabilities?

Gillette

DePompei

2008

Psychology in the Schools

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The project studied the on-time behavior of 35 students with intellectual disabilities (ID) or traumatic brain injury (TBI) under three conditions -times and tasks list, paper planner, and two different personal data assistants (PDAs). Students participated for two 4-week periods, receiving one morning reminder during Period 1 and no reminders during Period 2. Students were on time more often using a PDA compared to a list (p < .024) or a planner (p < .002). Students were on time 50% more often in Period 1 with a single daily morning reminder as compared to no reminder across all conditions. When applying results, clinicians and researchers should note that only the alarm function prompting on-time behavior was studied, and the influence of the small sample size and short time frame. Future researchers will find a framework for studying PDAs and cell phones with larger samples, over longer time periods, and with a wider range of functions. C 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Many persons with cognitive disabilities as a result of intellectual disability (ID, mental retardation) or traumatic brain injury (TBI) have difficulties with organization and memory that can interfere with successful management of activities of daily living and contribute to loss of personal independence (Hart, Hawkey, & Whyte, 2002;Knight, Devereux, & Godfrey, 1998). A number of interventions have been designed to enhance the ability of these individuals to use memory and organizational skills. Attention has often centered on the use of external aids to cognition (Parente & DiCesare, 1991;Sohlberg et al., 2007) . Specifically, the use of electronic devices may provide a dependable compensatory strategy made possible by advances in computer technology (Bergman, 2002;Wade & Troy, 2001). Generic electronic technologies such as personal data assistants (PDA) can provide a platform for enhancing memory and organization skills and may be beneficial to these individuals. Useful functions in these devices include a calendar, appointment alarms, to-do lists, contact information, and a calculator. Electronic alarms within the calendar function may be of particular interest to interventionists, because audible alarms can provide a prompt that might otherwise need to be administered by a caregiver.A partnership among the University of Akron, The Brain Injury Association of America, Temple University, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, and Spaulding Hospital, known as the Assistive Technology and Cognitive Disability Collaborative, was funded by the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research to examine the potential of generic electronic organizers to enhance the independence of adults and children with memory and organization problems. The first stage of our research agenda included a survey of children and adults with ID and TBI in order to examine the use of and preferences related to electronic organizers. Results of the three surveys (one with adults with TBI, one focusing on adults with ID, and one focusing on children with ID or TB...

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Do PDAs enhance the organization and memory skills of students with cognitive disabilities?

Gillette

DePompei

2008

Psychology in the Schools

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“…Kirsch et al [14] studied the use of a customized PDA in patients with TBI as a conversational aid to decrease verbose speech. AT to assist speech and language is commonly known as augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).…”

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Use of assistive technology in cognitive rehabilitation: Exploratory studies of the opinions and expectations of healthcare professionals and potential users

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“…It is task specific and achieves context sensitivity (Cole 1999) by asking the users questions about step completion. It builds upon evidence for the efficacy of voice based prompting (Hart et al, 2002;Kirsch et al, 2004). The contribution is in the close simulation of carer scaffolding of task performance: it is not only verbal, it emulates conversational interaction, is sensitive to context and able to resolve basic problems that arise.…”

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Scaffolding rehabilitation behaviour using a voice-mediated assistive technology for cognition

O’Neill

Moran

Gillespie

2010

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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An Assistive-Technology Intervention for Verbose Speech After Traumatic Brain Injury

Cited by 25 publications

References 37 publications

Do PDAs enhance the organization and memory skills of students with cognitive disabilities?

Do PDAs enhance the organization and memory skills of students with cognitive disabilities?

Use of assistive technology in cognitive rehabilitation: Exploratory studies of the opinions and expectations of healthcare professionals and potential users

Scaffolding rehabilitation behaviour using a voice-mediated assistive technology for cognition

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