... commissioning and delivering telecare services. Positivistic research can obscure the complexity and context within which the devices involved are situated (Greenhalgh and Swinglehurst, 2011); indeed, qualitative interviews with service users who declined to participate in, or withdrew from, the Whole Systems...

... Commended Award This article originally appeared in Volume 5 Number 4, 2011, pp. 169-80, Journal of Assistive Technologies www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/17549451111190597 Keywords Augmentative and alternative communication, Children (age groups), Outcomes, Interviews, Views...

.../approach A total of ten children were interviewed at two time points. The first interviews took place before or within two weeks of the arrival of a new communication aid. A second follow‐up interview was carried out between six and ten weeks later. Initial interviews explored children's views concerning...