Abstract

A one-hour Blissymbol in-service training program was developed for presentation to staff members of a skilled nursing facility. The purpose was to determine whether the program would produce significant learning to justify its use in similar facilities to bridge the communication gap between nonspeaking/nonwriting aphasic patients who communicate with Blissymbols and their direct care personnel as well as family members and others who are significant in their lives.

After development, the in-service program was given two "dry-runs" in skilled nursing facilities similar to the "study facility". It was then revised to improve clarity and to make it fit within time limitations. Following revision, it was presented to the study group of six participants preceded by a pretest and followed by a post test.

Specific manner of measurement was the use of t test of matching pairs (p ≤ 009). This indicates that the Blissymbol inservice training program developed in this research was an instructive, target specific, beneficial teaching device.

LLU Discipline

Speech Pathology

Department

Speech-Language Pathology

School

Graduate School

First Advisor

E. Evelyn Britt

Second Advisor

Melvin S. Cohen

Third Advisor

Isao Horinouchi

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Degree Level

M.S.

Year Degree Awarded

1983

Date (Title Page)

6-1983

Language

English

Library of Congress/MESH Subject Headings

Aphasics -- Rehabilitation.

Type

Thesis

Page Count

vii; 74

Digital Format

PDF

Digital Publisher

Loma Linda University Libraries

Usage Rights

This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Collection

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Collection Website

http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/

Repository

Loma Linda University. Del E. Webb Memorial Library. University Archives

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