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Making Gallery Groups at a Public Art Museum Accessible to People with Aphasia

Morgan, Makayla Q
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586515207124486

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2020, Master of Science (MS), Bowling Green State University, Communication Disorders.
Communicative accessibility is often sparse, preventing individuals with communication disorders from effectively participating in their lives and in society. Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCA) teaches interlocutors to provide communicative supports to people with aphasia or other communication disorders so that they may rejoin the conversation and continue interacting in their communities. This study aimed to train volunteer docents at the Toledo Museum of Art to effectively provide aphasia-friendly art museum tours and aimed to understand the process involved in developing and executing that training. 13 volunteer docents were trained in SCA strategies during a 60-minute training program presented by a person with aphasia (PWA), a speech-language pathologist, and a speech-language pathology graduate student. A single volunteer docent was then observed across four art gallery tours for SCA strategy use. Triangulation between docent observation, questionnaires with PWA, and interviews with PWA indicate that training was beneficial and may have assisted the docent in providing aphasia-friendly tours. Interviews with project collaborators were additionally conducted, indicating that the project offered a variety of benefits for many potential populations. Feedback was provided to inform future training efforts.
Brent Archer, Ph. D., CCC-SLP (Advisor)
Lynne Hewitt, Ph. D., CCC-SLP (Committee Member)
Ronald Scherer, Ph. D. (Committee Member)
71 p.
Adult Education; Communication; Language; Linguistics; Museum Studies; Museums; Public Health Education; Recreation; Rehabilitation; Speech Therapy; Teacher Education; Therapy
Aphasia; Communication Disorders; Speech-Language Pathology; Rehabilitation; Stroke; Community Education; Accessibility; Recreation; Museum

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  • Morgan, M. Q. (2020). Making Gallery Groups at a Public Art Museum Accessible to People with Aphasia [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586515207124486

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Morgan, Makayla. Making Gallery Groups at a Public Art Museum Accessible to People with Aphasia. 2020. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586515207124486.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Morgan, Makayla. "Making Gallery Groups at a Public Art Museum Accessible to People with Aphasia." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586515207124486

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