Instructional Technology: A Picture-aided Communication Systems Manager (PACSMan)

教学技术：图片辅助通信系统管理器 (PACSMan)

• 批准号: 8424259
• 负责人: WILLIAM J MCILVANE
• 金额: $ 42.02万
• 依托单位: PRAXIS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-04 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8424259
• 关键词: Address; Autistic Disorder; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Child; Child Behavior; Communication; Communication Programs; Computer software; Data; Data Analyses; Databases; Decision Making; Development; Discrimination; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Exclusion; Foundations; Health; Individual; Instruction; Instructional Technology; Intellectual Property; Journals; Language; Language Development; Lead; Learning; Maps; Marketing; Methodology; Methods; Nature; Neurodevelopmental Disorder; Outcome; Phase; Preparation; Process; Psycholinguistics; Publications; Request for Applications; Research; Sampling; Series; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Speech; Staging; Stimulus; Students; System; Testing; Training; Work; alternative communication; communication aid; cost; evidence base; product development; programs; prototype; teacher

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This fast-track application requests support to develop and field test software for functional communication training for children with autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Aimed principally at behavior therapists, special educators, and speech/language professionals, the software will support implementation of augmentative/alternative communication (AAC) approaches that use pictures to aid functional communication. Picture-aided communication systems are now widely used in functional communication training, most notably in the widely used PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System). The proposed product will address three critical stages in such functional communication training: (1) establishing the first instances of reliable discrimination among pictures and corresponding objects, (2) accelerating expansion of the picture-discrimination repertoire, and (3) establishing and expanding pictures sequences to support progressively more capable picture-aided communication. The working title of the product is Picture-Aided Communication System Manager (PACSMan). The scientific foundation for PACSMan is extensive, deriving from dozens of publications in professional journals over the past three decades. The program will manage the therapist-child interface within a PECS-like teaching environment. The software will (1) display sequences of stimulus items and their configurations to be presented, (2) allow the therapist to quickly and conveniently enter data corresponding to the child's behavior, (3) make automated on-the-fly queries of an individual-child database in order make decisions concerning the nature of the teaching sequences (i.e., when to add new items, when to accelerate teaching, when to remediate, etc.), and generally support an ongoing process of optimizing individualized instruction in picture-aided communication. This STTR project features a unique partnership between the UMMS Shriver Center, which established the evidence basis for the product, and Praxis, Inc., which contributes intellectual property whereby the product can be rapidly and cost-effectively developed.

描述（由申请人提供）：此快速访问申请请求支持为自闭症和相关神经发育障碍儿童的功能通信培训开发和现场测试软件。该软件主要针对行为治疗师，特殊教育者和语音/语言专业人士，将支持实施增强/替代通信（AAC）方法，该方法使用图片来帮助功能交流。图片辅助通信系统现在广泛用于功能通信培训中，最著名的是在广泛使用的PEC（图片交换通信系统）中。拟议的产品将解决此类功能通信培训中的三个关键阶段：（1）建立图片和相应物体之间可靠歧视的第一个实例，（2）加速图片歧视曲目的扩展，以及（3）建立和扩展图片序列以逐步支持功能更强大的图像辅助通信。该产品的工作标题是图像辅助通信系统经理（PACSMAN）。 Pacsman的科学基础是广泛的，在过去的三十年中，源自专业期刊上的数十个出版物。该计划将在类似PECS的教学环境中管理治疗师-Child界面。该软件将（1）显示刺激项目及其配置的序列，（2）允许治疗师快速且方便地输入与孩子行为相对应的数据，（3）使个人自动查询自动查询 - 孩子数据库为了做出有关教学序列性质的决定（即何时添加新项目，何时加速教学，何时进行补救等），并且通常支持在图片辅助中优化个性化教学的持续过程沟通。该STTR项目以UMMS Shriver中心之间的独特合作关系（建立了产品的证据基础）和Praxis，Inc。，该公司贡献了知识产权，因此该产品可以快速且成本效益开发。