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Describing the Communicative Profiles of Young Children with a Significant Cognitive and Motor Developmental Delay
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Dhondt, Ann; Van keer, Ines; Ceulemans, Eva; van der Putten, Annette; Maes, Bea – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2023
The communicative behavior of young children with significant cognitive and motor developmental delays is generally considered to be limited, idiosyncratic and non-intentional. At present, changes between and within children over time regarding their communicative behavior are hard to detect. This article describes an exploratory observational…
Descriptors: Young Children, Communication Skills, Intellectual Disability, Physical Disabilities
Emotional Availability in Mothers and Their Children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 Who Require Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study
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Shahar-Lahav, Ravit; Sher-Censor, Efrat; Hebel, Orly – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2022
Emotional availability in parent-child interactions fosters children's socioemotional development. Little is known about the emotional availability of parents and children with profound motor disabilities and complex communication needs or the contributions of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to emotional availability. To begin…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Emotional Response, Physical Disabilities
In Search of a Novel Way to Analyze Early Communicative Behavior
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Dhondt, Ann; Van keer, Ines; Nijs, Sara; van der Putten, Annette; Maes, Bea – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2021
The aim of this study was to develop a coding scheme that enables researchers and practitioners to conduct a detailed analysis of the communicative behavior of young children with significant cognitive and motor developmental delays. Currently, there is a paucity of methods to do conduct such an analysis. For the study, video observations of three…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Interpersonal Communication, Developmental Delays, Physical Disabilities