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Expressive and receptive performance with graphic symbol sentences by individuals who use aided communication.
- Source :
- AAC: Augmentative & Alternative Communication; Sep2022, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p135-147, 13p, 2 Charts, 4 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This study explored performance on expressive and receptive graphic symbol tasks and spoken comprehension by individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) as well as the relationship of performance with participants' skills and characteristics. Participants were 19 children and youth (aged 5- to 18-years-old) who used aided communication. Four experimental tasks were administered, with either speech or symbols as input (stimuli) and symbols or choice from an array of pictures as output (response). Symbols were not accompanied by written or spoken labels in the tasks. Measures of receptive vocabulary, receptive syntax, memory, and visual cognitive skills as well as information regarding participant characteristics were collected. There were strong relationships among all experimental tasks. Cluster analysis revealed different response patterns that may suggest a progression in expressive and receptive performance with graphic symbol sentences. Individual differences in receptive language, particularly receptive syntax, were related to task performance. The findings suggest that different ways of experiencing symbols, in addition to spoken comprehension of the sentences and receptive spoken language more generally, may contribute to expressive graphic symbol sentences. Performance on receptive symbol tasks may uncover a level of facility with the graphic-symbol modality not observed through expressive symbol use in communicative situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- GRAPHIC arts
KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
FACILITATED communication
INTELLIGIBILITY of speech
SPEECH evaluation
COMPARATIVE grammar
QUESTIONNAIRES
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
VOCABULARY
CHI-squared test
RESEARCH funding
CEREBRAL palsy
PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities
DATA analysis software
CLUSTER analysis (Statistics)
VIDEO recording
INTELLIGENCE tests
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07434618
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- AAC: Augmentative & Alternative Communication
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160527331
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2022.2085623