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Tablet game-supported speech therapy embedded in children’s popular practices

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  • Matej Zajc
  • Andreja Istenič Starčič
  • Maja Lebeničnik
  • Mateja Gačnik

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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.

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  • Matej Zajc & Andreja Istenič Starčič & Maja Lebeničnik & Mateja Gačnik, 2018. "Tablet game-supported speech therapy embedded in children’s popular practices," Behaviour and Information Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(7), pages 693-702, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tbitxx:v:37:y:2018:i:7:p:693-702
    DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2018.1474253
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