Expressive and Receptive Performance with Graphic Symbol Sentences by Individuals Who Use Aided Communication

Autor/inn/en	Sutton, Ann; Trudeau, Natacha; Morford, Jill P.; Smith, Martine M.; Mascolo, Marie-Ève
Titel	Expressive and Receptive Performance with Graphic Symbol Sentences by Individuals Who Use Aided Communication
Quelle	In: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 38 (2022) 3, S.135-147 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Trudeau, Natacha) ORCID (Morford, Jill P.) ORCID (Smith, Martine M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-4618
DOI	10.1080/07434618.2022.2085623
Schlagwörter	Augmentative and Alternative Communication; Expressive Language; Receptive Language; Assistive Technology; Orthographic Symbols; Youth; Adults; Syntax; Thinking Skills; Visual Perception; Memory; Foreign Countries; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Denkfähigkeit; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Gedächtnis; Ausland; Kanada
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01