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Tablet game-supported speech therapy embedded in children’s popular practices.
- Source :
- Behaviour & Information Technology; Jul2018, Vol. 37 Issue 7, p693-702, 10p, 2 Color Photographs, 6 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Modern speech-language pathology practices (SLPPs) have adopted tablet games in recent years. Research is needed to take advantage of the potential benefits tablets can offer and to explore the factors that influence its introduction. This paper discusses a survey that was conducted to investigate the factors that influence speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs) beliefs and the actual use of tablets in SLPPs. The results of the survey, conducted among Slovenian SLPs, indicated that their most positive beliefs concerning tablets relate to social influence. Specifically, the beliefs relate to children’s interest and practice with tablets and have a significant impact on the decision-making of SLPs concerning introducing tablets in therapy. Conversely, SLPs’ most negative beliefs relate to the conditions for facilitating tablet use, particularly the lack of Slovenian applications. This paper discusses a separate case study that was conducted in which tablet game-supported therapy was introduced to a group of 44 children. The case study results indicated that the children accepted the use of tablet games for therapy purposes and the games had a positive impact on the children’s motivation and satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COMMUNICATIVE disorders
STATISTICAL correlation
FACTOR analysis
PORTABLE computers
PROBABILITY theory
RESEARCH funding
ASSISTIVE technology
SPEECH therapists
SPEECH therapy
STATISTICS
SURVEYS
USER interfaces
LOGISTIC regression analysis
DATA analysis
CHILDREN with disabilities
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
MANN Whitney U Test
CHILDREN
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0144929X
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Behaviour & Information Technology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 130125711
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2018.1474253