Dynamic Assessment for 3- and 4-Year-Old Children Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Evaluating Expressive Syntax.
J Speech Lang Hear Res
; 60(7): 1946-1958, 2017 07 12.
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| ID: mdl-28614580
ABSTRACT
Purpose:
The developmental readiness to produce early sentences with an iPad communication application was assessed with ten 3- and 4-year-old children with severe speech disorders using graduated prompting dynamic assessment (DA) techniques. The participants' changes in performance within the DA sessions were evaluated, and DA performance was compared with performance during a subsequent intervention.Method:
Descriptive statistics were used to examine patterns of performance at various cueing levels and mean levels of cueing support. The Wilcoxon signed-ranks test was used to measure changes within the DA sessions. Correlational data were calculated to determine how well performance in DA predicted performance during a subsequent intervention.Results:
Participants produced targets successfully in DA at various cueing levels, with some targets requiring less cueing than others. Performance improved significantly within the DA sessions-that is, the level of cueing required for accurate productions of the targets decreased during DA sessions. Last, moderate correlations existed between DA scores and performance during the intervention for 3 out of 4 targets, with statistically significant findings for 2 of 4 targets.Conclusion:
DA offers promise for examining the developmental readiness of young children who use augmentative and alternative communication to produce early expressive language structures.
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Asunto principal:
Trastornos del Habla
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Equipos de Comunicación para Personas con Discapacidad
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Comunicación
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Pruebas del Lenguaje
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Lingüística
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Speech Lang Hear Res
Asunto de la revista:
AUDIOLOGIA
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PATOLOGIA DA FALA E LINGUAGEM
Año:
2017
Tipo del documento:
Article