The fruitfulness of a nomothetic approach to investigating AAC: comparing two speech encoding schemes across cerebral palsied and nondisabled children.

The observation that typical users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems vary widely in their characteristics raises issues about the utility of a nomothetic approach for investigating and evaluating important variables, as well as about the value of studying children without d...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 110 - 121
Autores principales: Hochstein DD, McDaniel MA, Nettleton S, Neufeld KH
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Feb2003
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          Hochstein DD
          McDaniel MA
          Nettleton S
          Neufeld KH
        affil: Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Logan Hall, Terrace and Redondo Streets, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131; hochd@unm.edu
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          Cerebral Palsy
          Alternative and Augmentative Communication In Infancy and Childhood
          Funding Source
          Psychological Theory
          Case Control Studies
          Child, Preschool
          Child
          Word Lists
          Communication Aids for Persons with Disabilities
          Language Tests
          Vocabulary
          Female
          Male
          Pictorial Methods
          Two-Way Analysis of Variance
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          Human
          Child, Preschool: 2-5 years
          Child: 6-12 years
          Female
          Male
      ab: The observation that typical users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems vary widely in their characteristics raises issues about the utility of a nomothetic approach for investigating and evaluating important variables, as well as about the value of studying children without disabilities to contribute to the understanding of AAC systems. To provide an initial basis for examining the fruitfulness of the nomothetic approach, the effects of 2 fundamental variables, number of display levels (single vs. dual) and vocabulary abstractness (concrete vs. abstract words), on vocabulary acquisition were examined for children without disabilities and for speech impaired children with cerebral palsy (CP). Children demonstrated the same pattern of acquisition, regardless of disability status. Both groups of children made more errors on the dual-level display than on the single-level display and made more abstract errors than concrete errors. Importantly, the performance of individuals consistently conformed to group performance. These findings suggest that a nomothetic research approach that includes results of children without disabilities can usefully illuminate consequences of important variables in AAC systems. Clinical implications based on these findings were also discussed.
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