Recast type, repair, and acquisition in AAC mediated interaction.
J Child Lang
; 47(1): 250-264, 2020 01.
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| ID: mdl-31524119
ABSTRACT
The present study investigated the effects of different types of recasts and prompts on the rate of repair and spontaneous use of novel vocabulary by eight children with severe motor speech disabilities who used speech-generating technologies to communicate. Data came from 60 transcripts of clinical sessions that were part of a conversation-based intervention designed to teach them pronouns, verbs, and verb inflections. The results showed that, when presented alone, interrogative choice and declarative recasts led to the highest rates of child repair. The results also showed that when children were presented with recasts and prompts to repair, the rate of repair increased. Spontaneous use of linguistic targets was significantly and positively related to conversational sequences where the adult recast was followed by child repair. These findings suggest that using different recast types and prompts to repair may be beneficial for spontaneous use of linguistic targets in this population.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Speech Disorders
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Vocabulary
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Communication Aids for Disabled
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Language
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
J Child Lang
Year:
2020
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States