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Response Time of Young Children with Complex Communication Needs Following a Communication Opportunity
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Tiantian Sun; Ryan Bowles; Sarah N. Douglas; Joshua Plavnick – Grantee Submission, 2023
Children with complex communication needs (CCN) who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) often need more time to process and respond when communicating with others. This study employed a survival analysis approach exploring child response-time patterns following different communication opportunities for young children with CCN who…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Reaction Time, Individual Differences
Response Time of Young Children with Complex Communication Needs Following a Communication Opportunity
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Tiantian Sun; Ryan Bowles; Sarah N. Douglas; Joshua Plavnick – Exceptional Children, 2023
Children with complex communication needs (CCN) who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) often need more time to process and respond when communicating with others. This study employed a survival analysis approach exploring child response-time patterns following different communication opportunities for young children with CCN who…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Reaction Time, Individual Differences
What Relationships Exist between Nouns and Verbs and the Use of Prepositions, Adverbs, and Adjectives in Children and Adolescents Who Use Speech Generating Devices?
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Laura Durston; Michael T. Clarke; Gloria Soto – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
The relationships between the use of nouns and verbs, and other word classes have been well established in the typical language development literature. However, questions remain as to whether the same relationships are seen in the language use of individuals who use graphic symbol-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The aim of…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Nouns, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
The Effect of Responsiveness to Speech-Generating Device Input on Spoken Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Who Are Minimally Verbal
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Sterrett, Kyle; Holbrook, Alison; Landa, Rebecca; Kaiser, Ann; Kasari, Connie – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2023
The use of speech-generating devices (SGD) in early interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can improve communication and spoken language outcomes. The purpose of this study was to describe children's responsiveness to SGD input modeled by a social partner during adult-child play interactions over a 24-week intervention…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interaction, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Examining Multimodal Communication during Social Interactions: Studies of Minimally Verbal Autistic Children and Adolescents
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Chelsea La Valle – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Difficulties in communication during social interactions are a feature of the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Little is known about the communication abilities of minimally-verbal (MV) individuals, which comprises one-third of autistic individuals. Natural language sampling (NLS) provides an optimal approach to capture communication…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adolescents, Late Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders