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- Bruce, Barbro, et al.
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The relationship between language skills and interactional skills
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 3:2, s. 195-219
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates interaction in dialogues between children with language impairment (LI) and peers of different ages and at two different times, taking into account the language skills of the children with LI. The hypotheses tested were that dialogues between more mature children are more coherent and that the degree of language problems of the child with LI is not directly associated with characteristics of the dialogues. Nine children with LI (aged 3;9–5;0 at time I) were recorded with an age-similar and a language-similar peer on two occasions with a one-year interval. The analysis focused on responsiveness and assertiveness in the dialogues as wholes. Dialogues between older children were more coherent and mutual influence within the dialogues was significant at both times. The children with LI tended to be more assertive with the younger peer. The language skills of the children with LI only partly explained the characteristics of the dialogues. Intervention for children with LI should focus on enhancing their opportunities to interact with peers of different ages.
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- Bruce, Barbro, et al.
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The relationship between language skills and interactional skills in children with language impairment
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 3:2, s. 195-219
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates interaction in dialogues between children with language impairment (LI) and peers of different ages and at two different times, taking into account the language skills of the children with LI. The hypotheses tested were that dialogues between more mature children are more coherent and that the degree of language problems of the child with LI is not directly associated with characteristics of the dialogues. Nine children with LI (aged 3;9–5;0 at time I) were recorded with an age-similar and a language-similar peer on two occasions with a one-year interval. The analysis focused on responsiveness and assertiveness in the dialogues as wholes. Dialogues between older children were more coherent and mutual influence within the dialogues was significant at both times. The children with LI tended to be more assertive with the younger peer. The language skills of the children with LI only partly explained the characteristics of the dialogues. Intervention for children with LI should focus on enhancing their opportunities to interact with peers of different ages.
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- Ekström, Anna, 1979-, et al.
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Assisted eating as a communicative activity : A framework of joint attention and co-ordinated embodied actions
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 14:1, s. 79-105
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: This study aims to further the understanding of communication involving people with late-stage dementia by highlighting assisted eating as an interactive joint activity. Assisted eating is, on the surface, primarily a care activity with the purpose of feeding the assisted person and thereby facilitating nutritional uptake. Helping someone to eat requires, nevertheless, fine-grained communication and co-ordination of both attention and embodied actions.Method: Using video recordings where a person with late-stage dementia is provided with assistance to eat, we show how assisted eating is sequentially organized into smaller, local communicative projects, and how each project’s completion is contingent upon the temporal co-ordination of the participants’ attention and embodied actions.Results: The analysis shows how actions necessary to carry out the eating (e.g., manipulating the food, bringing the food to the mouth) are also inherently communicative and achieved through an embodied participation framework.Discussion/conclusion: Our findings show that while the caregiving staff perform most of the actions required in the assisted eating, the person with dementia is a central agent whose actions – displays of engagement and disengagement – are decisive for the progression of the eating activity and play central roles in the interactive achievement of the activity
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- Eriksson, Karin, 1965, et al.
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Aspects of rating communicative interaction: Effects on reliability and agreement
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 5:2, s. 245-267
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Communication partner training can be effective in improving communication in aphasia. However, further research is needed on how to measure the outcome of such interventions. In this paper we discuss the phenomenon of reliability in assessments in relation to the results of analyses using a rating scale designed to measure the ability to support a person with aphasia in natural conversational interaction. The scale was used by four assessors to rate 45 video recordings. Calculations of reliability and agreement produced varying results but were mostly satisfactory. However, the results highlight how interaction between factors such as complexity of assessments; design of the rating scale; factors inherent in the individual assessor; and the statistical measures used to analyse the outcome may result in a conflict between aspects of validity and reliability. Interpretations of outcome obtained with rating scales thus need to be based on knowledge about factors influencing the results.
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- Ferm, Ulrika, 1966, et al.
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Negotiating disagreement in picture symbol supported decision making
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 6:2, s. 131-156
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores how meaning is co-constructed and negotiated when couples affected by Parkinson’s disease use a symbol supported decision making process (Talking Mats) to talk about their daily lives. Interaction data from three couples of men with Parkinson’s disease, their female partners and a facilitator were examined using Conversation Analysis (CA). Three negotiation sequences in which the partners disagreed regarding the ability of the person with Parkinson’s disease were used to explore the management of divergent views. Negotiation was an individualized process in which the men with Parkinson’s disease were at risk of not being fully involved. Negative assessment and disagreement were displayed in different ways. Strategies such as the use of pronouns and proper names seemed to play important functions in negotiation. Use of pictures such as with Talking Mats may support the handling of different views but partners need to be aware of the potential difficulties involved.
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- Forsgren, Emma, 1982, et al.
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Exploring communication strategies for the facilitation of person-centred care: a comparison of three methods for analysis
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 8:2, s. 220-245
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This method study compares the results yielded by using three different methods of examining how communication strategies may facilitate person-centred care in longterm residential care. The analysis involved two quantitative coding systems, which rated language-based and person-centred communication strategies, and a qualitative analysis based on Conversation Analysis. The data consisted of a video-recorded conversation that took place between an enrolled nurse and a resident with dementia in a long-term residential care facility in western Sweden. The qualitative analysis sheds light on several shortcomings in the two quantitative coding systems. Although both coding systems revealed that the enrolled nurse used many facilitating strategies, only one of the systems captured problems in the interaction. The conclusion of this study is that context as well as paralinguistic aspects in communication should be considered in the development and use of quantitative coding systems.
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- Frostlund, Jörgen, et al.
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Evidence-based teaching in Swedish compulsory schools for pupils with intellectual disabilities
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. - : Equinox Publishing Ltd.. - 2040-512X .- 2040-5111. ; 14:1, s. 154-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: This study aims to identify the evidence-based teaching programs regarding communication and interaction that underpin Swedish compulsory schools for pupils with intellectual disabilities (ID).Method: This quantitative census survey fills a gap in the existing research literature, in that all qualified teachers in the schools report on the use of evidence-based teaching programs regarding communication and interaction for pupils with ID.Results: Only a small proportion of the teachers received any formal teacher training on evidence-based teaching programs or participated in any continuing professional development (CPD) on these programs. We also evidenced a teaching gap among Swedish special schools, as commonly used teaching programs differ within Swedish compulsory schools for pupils with ID. In addition, some commonly used teaching programs do not always promote interaction and learning for pupils.Discussion/conclusion: The teaching profession is in need of scientific guidance, in order to create evidence-based teaching practice for pupils with ID, which should be a focus of future studies.
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- Fyrberg, Åsa
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Communication after traumatic brain injury in adolescence: A single subject comparative study of two methods for analysis
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 4:2, s. 157-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Communication in everyday life can be severely affected in adolescence after a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Abilities associated with vocal verbal response, gesture, gaze, facial expression and posture are frequently impaired. While much effort is often invested in clinical assessments, altered communicative functions in a real life setting are explored to a much lesser extent. In this case study, we discuss the usability of a triangulation of methods for analysis, involving a 16-year-old adolescent with TBI. Communication Management (CM) is explored, based on self-evaluation by the participant in video recordings of dyadic and triadic conversations. Ratings created independently by the subject and his parents on The Communicative Effectiveness Index (CETI) are analysed. A comparison is made with a selection of clinical test results on cognition, speech and language. We discuss how the methods can be applied to analyse communicative functions that are not readily detected in a clinical Environment.
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- Fyrberg, Åsa, et al.
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Everyday communication in adolescents after acquired brain injuries – a comparative study of self-ratings and parent evaluations using the CETI.
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 8:1, s. 44-71
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Communication participation in adolescents with acquired brain injuries (ABI) has received limited attention. The aim of the present study was to investigate the views of the adolescents themselves (N = 8), in comparison to parent evaluations (N = 11) of daily communication, using the Communicative Effectiveness Index in combination with individual interviews. Two frameworks for analyses, Activity based Communication Analyses and the distributed cognition approach, identified three main areas of interest: Situations where communication difficulties occur, Coping behaviours used by participants to manage communication difficulties, and, Causes of the communication difficulties. An overall high agreement between the adolescent and parent assessments was shown. However, complex communicative situations more frequently received lower scores in the parent ratings. The results of the study point to the usability of a systematic comparison of the shared points of views on communication after ABI in adolescence, to increase knowledge about the participation perspective in real life communication.
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- Hydén, Lars-Christer, et al.
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Feedback and common ground in conversational storytelling involvning people with Alzheimer's disease
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 4:2, s. 211-247
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present article focuses on feedback in storytelling involving people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and how feedback is related to the ways participants establish a common ground (Clark 1996) in interaction. The establishment of common ground is important in all kinds of interaction and becomes an especially intricate process if participants have AD, since the achievement of common ground requires the ability to draw from knowledge and experiences relating to past as well as present events; an ability that is often hampered by the disease. Analyses show that other aspects than the actual content of the conversation are important for the participants – for instance being together, supporting the positive identities both presented in the story and embodied in the socially rewarding activity that they manage to engage in, implying that the participants create and sustain a common ground not so much about the story-layer as of the storytelling activity.
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- Jansson, Gunilla, 1950-, et al.
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Taking a shower : Managing a potentially imposing activity in dementia care
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 5:1, s. 27-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on an activity routinely carried out in elderly care: taking ashower. The care setting is two nursing homes in Sweden hosting elderly people with dementia. The data consist of transcriptions of three caregivers’ interaction with their residents prior to, and during the performance of the shower task. While the shower routinely is rejected by the care recipient in these settings, the article demonstrates alternative ways of performing the task that are less imposing for the elderly person and that may maintain the care recipient’s dignity and sense of autonomy. The way opposition occurs during the course of the activity depends on how the care worker frames the performance of the task. When physical action is embedded and aligned with the care recipient’s concerns, the washing of the body progresses more smoothly. The article highlights the importance of allowing the care recipient to feel that her priorities form the basis for how the activity should proceed. The implications of this study for the care system are discussed in terms of providing opportunities for caregivers and elderly persons to build relationships of mutual trust and support.
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- Keegan, Louise C., et al.
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The influence of context on identity construction after traumatic brain injury
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : EQUINOX PUBLISHING LTD. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 13:2, s. 171-195
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: It has been widely accepted that positive identity construction after traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in better rehabilitation outcomes. However, there is limited information available on the linguistic resources that individuals use to construct such identities, and how the context in which they are communicating may influence this construction of self. This research uses the tools of systemic functional linguistics to examine the linguistic construction of identity in an individual with moderate-severe chronic TBI.Method: The individual participated in two different conversations, one with a male stranger and the other with a female brain injury researcher, and the conversation transcripts were analyzed using tools of systemic functional linguistics.Results: The identities communicated and linguistic construction of self in both contexts had many similarities. In both conversations, the participant presented a positive perspective of his post brain injury life, and he described similar relation-ships. Nevertheless, there were also noteworthy differences. With the stranger, he distanced himself from the topic of the injury by not discussing his pre-injury self or his injury-related difficulties. However, with the researcher, he contrasted a negative pre-injury persona with his current, improved post-injury self. Additionally, when conveying information about his relationships to the stranger he projected a more powerful and in-charge identity than with the researcher.Discussion: An analysis of language using systemic functional linguistics can reveal important information about how individuals communicate their identity. Additionally, the identities communicated can be highly variable depending on the conversation partner, the context of the interaction, and sociocultural gender norms. Conclusion: The results suggest that contextual influences on identity construc-tion have important clinical implications for rehabilitation.
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- Kilpia, Anni, et al.
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Using conversation analysis to identify unresponsiveness in peer interactions in inclusive groups
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : EQUINOX PUBLISHING LTD. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 14:3, s. 386-407
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Previous research regarding unresponsiveness in peer interaction, including participants on the autism spectrum (AS), is mainly based on predefined categorizations of unresponsiveness; thus, there is a need for conversation analytic research to examine unresponsiveness from participants' perspectives.Method: Multimodal conversation analysis (CA) was applied to examine unresponsiveness in task-focused multiparty peer interactions of an inclusive group, including one participant on the AS.Results: The results showed that it was not meaningful to analyze unresponsiveness in situations where there was no (aligning) response and all participants' orientations revealed that a response was (not) needed. Instead, participants' discrepant orientations to the response relevance made unresponsiveness a meaningful issue for participants to negotiate.Discussion/conclusion: The CA approach can be useful for examining unresponsive-ness accurately. The combination of both the speaker and recipient(s) orientations to response relevance can be used as a conceptual tool to identify unresponsiveness when it is relevant for the participants.
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- Lindeberg, Sophia, et al.
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Multimodality in PPA : Hand movements as resources in conversations and testing
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : EQUINOX PUBLISHING LTD. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 14:2, s. 268-291
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: In primary progressive aphasia (PPA), multimodal means may gradually become more important in conversations. In this study, the aim was to investigate the functions of hand movements of a man with PPA.Method: Peter and Karen participated in this study. Peter was diagnosed with nonfluent PPA two years prior to data collection. Casual conversation and cognitive and linguistic testing were audio- and video-recorded. Analyses were informed by multimodal interaction analytical approaches.Results: The results showed that Peters opportunities to engage in conversations were enabled within a co-operative framework, where Peter would contribute within a predetermined slot using a variety of multimodal resources to, for example, organize turn-taking or repair difficulties relating to verbal output.Discussion and conclusions: Studying multimodal resources across tasks may reveal important features of the ways in which persons with communicative impairment adjust to different contexts. In clinical settings, multimodal resources need to be viewed as multi-layered actions rather than as isolated contributions.
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- Matérne, Marie, 1967-, et al.
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Interaction and multimodal expressions in a water-dance intervention for adults with intellectual and multiple disabilities
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 14:1, s. 122-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Structured water-dance intervention (SWAN) is an aquatic method customized for adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD). The aims are to describe and discuss how the SWAN program intervention leader, instructors, and support persons (i.e., the staff) co-operate and facilitate interaction with participants with intellectual and multiple disabilities (IMD), and to identify expressions of emotion by the participants during a SWAN.Method: Video recordings of the interactions were analyzed based on dialogical theory and conversation analysis (CA).Results: The analysis showed that SWAN can be described as an institutional activity, on the one hand governed by an overall, pre-planned structure, and on the other hand affected by the moment-by-moment co-operation and interaction between participants and the staff as the intervention is taking place; also, how several emotional expressions by the participants are responded to by the staff.Conclusions: In interaction during the SWAN, the participants are considered as competent interaction partners, and their multimodal expressions are taken into account by the support persons, instructors, and intervention leader through adaptation to the activity.
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- Myrberg, Karin, et al.
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Interaction and language test performance involving persons with dementia : A comparison between test conversation and informal conversation
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 10:2, s. 179-206
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: Dementia has a significant impact on language and communication. In this study, the aim was to compare the organization of interaction between persons with dementia (PWDs) and speech and language pathologists (SLPs) in two types of conversation, a test conversation and an informal conversation. A further aim was to relate interactional abilities to the PWDs' performance on an aphasia test battery. Method: Ten PWDs participated in the two types of conversations. In the test conversation, a standardized aphasia test battery was used. All dyads were audio-and video-recorded. Analyses were informed by interaction analytical approaches, such as conversation analysis (CA), combined with quantitative measurements. Results: The results demonstrated that there was a larger number of turns, words, and topic initiations made by the PWDs in the informal conversations. The frequency of occurrence of repair instances was the same in the two conditions, but repairs in the test conversations were mostly resolved within one turn, whereas repairs stretching over several turns were more frequent in the informal conversations. Many of the repairs were initiated with a clarification request or a request for confirmation. Even though a majority of the PWDs demonstrated a rather robust turn-taking ability in the informal conversations, several of them struggled with the aphasia test assignments, in some cases due to visual perception problems. Discussion and conclusion: The results indicate that a thorough analysis of informal conversations is important in assessing language in PWDs. The ecological validity of standardized language tests needs to be discussed, and the results of such tests should be handled carefully.
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- Nordgren, Pia M., 1970-
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Phonological Development in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Case Study of an Intervention
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 6:1, s. 25-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this single case study with a multiple baseline approach, a five year-old Swedish boy, diagnosed with an autism spectrum condition, and having a bilingual background, was followed weekly for one year. In order to facilitate the acquisition of phonological contrasts and knowledge of symbolic representations, a training package with minimal pairs was gradually introduced. A corpus of the utterances in interaction with teachers and a speech pathologist was collected, transcribed, and analyzed. The results of the study showed a quantitative and qualitative development of sound production involving the use of new phonological feature types, new syllable constructions, and new words during the year. The delayed and deviant speech development, both concerning segments, syllables, and word boundaries in this child, is in line with studies that describe a deviant phonological development in individuals with autism.
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- Nordgren, Pia, 1970
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Phonological Development in a Child with Autism Spectrum Condition: Case Study of an Intervention
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 6:1, s. 25-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this single case study with a multiple baseline approach, a five year-old Swedish boy, diagnosed with an autism spectrum condition, and having a bilingual background, was followed weekly for one year. In order to facilitate the acquisition of phonological contrasts and knowledge of symbolic representations, a training package with minimal pairs was gradually introduced. A corpus of the utterances in interaction with teachers and a speech pathologist was collected, transcribed, and analyzed. The results of the study showed a quantitative and qualitative development of sound production involving the use of new phonological feature types, new syllable constructions, and new words during the year. The delayed and deviant speech development, both concerning segments, syllables, and word boundaries in this child, is in line with studies that describe a deviant phonological development in individuals with autism.
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- Saldert, Charlotta, 1966, et al.
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Combining methods in the assessment and analysis of communication in aphasia: Benefits and shortcomings of different approaches
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-512X .- 2040-5111. ; 3:2, s. 141-169
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this case study the benefit of using analysis of conversational interaction in clinical assessment of communication is explored. A diagnostic test revealed a severe global aphasia in a man. However, according to a questionnaire filled out by the wife, her husband had some functional communication. The description of the consequences of aphasia in this man was further modified and enriched by analyses of conversational interaction between the man and his spouse. The Measure of Participation in Conversation and the Measure of Skill in Supported Conversation show that the couple has strategies that facilitate communication. Activity-based Communication Analysis provides information about how the strategies are used and about the influence of different factors brought into the interaction by the situation and the individuals involved. Thus, although time consuming, analysis of natural conversations provide valid information that is of importance in assessment of communication and implementation of intervention that can have an impact on everyday life in persons with aphasia and their conversation partners.
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- Samuelsson, Christina, 1966-, et al.
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Video Recording as a Tool for Assessing Children’s Everyday Use of Features Targeted in Phonological Intervention
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders/Equinox. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 7:1, s. 27-48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The last decades, speech and language pathology services have been subject to changes, and there has been a growing demand for intervention activities to be effective and evidence-based. The aim of the present study was to investigate if and how video recording can be used to assess the use of features targeted in phonological intervention, in everyday talk by children with LI. Three five-year-old girls with phonological problems participated in the study, and data consist of video recordings of intervention sessions and of interaction at home. Three different paths of development were identified: Some targeted speech sounds are displayed in everyday interaction; Targeted speech sound is present in intervention-like activity; No displays of targeted sounds. The results of the present study clearly demonstrate that the use of video recordings, transcriptions and analysis of interaction outside of the clinical setting contribute important information that may guide planning, goal-setting and evaluation of intervention.
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- Sigurd Pilesjö, Maja, et al.
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Facilitators’ use of a communication device following children’s aided turns in everyday interaction
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-5111 .- 2040-512X. ; 10:1, s. 67-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This conversation analysis study investigates facilitators’ simultaneous use of speech and aided means in instructional interaction with children with complex communication needs (CCN), who use aided communication in an everyday setting. The participants were children with severe speech impairments and their everyday communication partners. The analysis focused on facilitators’ aided turns immediately following aided turns by the children, within so-called retro-sequences. Retro-sequences were found in interactions involving four out of nine children. The facilitators systematically combined a spoken turn with an aided turn, a speaking and pointing (SAP) practice. The pointing consisted of a single graphical word, mostly a noun. The multimodal practice generally highlighted, emphasized, or exposed graphical words that increased noticeability and understandability within the local context. Adult repeats were treated as requests for confirmation of a candidate understanding and were responded to by the child using vocal and embodied resources. Reformulations (recasts) were treated as profferings of candidate understandings and were responded to using the communication device. The findings indicate that the partner’s use of a spoken and aided follow-up action shaped the immediate context for device use. The findings are relevant for the design of naturalistic interventions and may be used to improve treatment descriptions in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions.
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- Saldert, Charlotta, 1966, et al.
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Interaction in conversation in Huntington´s disease: An activity-based analysis and the conversation partner's view of change
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. - 2040-5111. ; 1:2, s. 169-197
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores how conversational interaction is affected in a progressive neurological disease and what changes in the communication are reported by significant others in a questionnaire. Three dyads, each consisting of a person with Huntington’s disease and a conversational partner, were video-recorded, and the conversations were analysed with respect to the parameters in the questionnaire and also with the method Activity-based Communication Analysis. The analyses revealed that several important aspects of communication were affected by the disease in each of the three cases presented here. Most, but not all, of these changes in communication were also reported by the significant other in the questionnaire. These results show that it is important to look out for possible communication problems when managing individuals with Huntington’s disease. The questionnaire utilized in this study, with some modifications, seems to be a promising instrument for use in a clinical setting.
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