Analyzing input quality along three dimensions: interactive, linguistic, and conceptual.

ML Rowe, CE Snow - Journal of child language, 2020 - cambridge.org
This paper provides an overview of the features of caregiver input that facilitate language
learning across early childhood. We discuss three dimensions of input quality: interactive …

Toward neurodiversity: How conversation analysis can contribute to a new approach to social communication assessment

B Yu, L Sterponi - Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: The purpose of this clinical focus article was to illustrate the potential of employing
conversation analysis (CA) as a method for assessing social communication that is …

Parent‐mediated communication interventions for improving the communication skills of preschool children with non‐progressive motor disorders

L Pennington, WA Akor, K Laws… - Cochrane Database of …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Children with motor disorders can have difficulties in producing accurate and
consistent movements for speech, gesture or facial expression (or a combination of these) …

Introduction to the special issue on aided language processes, development, and use: an international perspective

S von Tetzchner - Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This introduction to the Special Issue discusses current theoretical approaches to language
development and their application to aided language development. It also discusses some …

Tracking early sentence-building progress in graphic symbol communication

C Binger, J Kent-Walsh, N Harrington… - Language, Speech, and …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose As is the case with children who rely on spoken language, speech-language
pathologists must support and track the expressive language development of children with …

Exploring core competencies for language facilitation in parent training programs in AAC

G Soto, J Vega - Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The relationship between children and their caregivers is essential for the development of
social, emotional, cognitive, and linguistic skills. This is especially critical for children with …

Tactile board: a multimodal augmentative and alternative communication device for individuals with Deafblindness

A Theil, L Buchweitz, J Gay, E Lindell, L Guo… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Deafblindness, also known as dual sensory loss, is the combination of sight and hearing
impairments of such extent that it becomes difficult for one sense to compensate for the …

Recast type, repair, and acquisition in AAC mediated interaction

S Gloria, MT Clarke, K Nelson, R Starowicz… - Journal of child …, 2020 - cambridge.org
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 …

Conversation-based intervention for adolescents using augmentative and alternative communication

G Soto, MT Clarke - Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study evaluated the effects of a conversation-based intervention on the use of verbs,
personal pronouns, bound morphemes and spontaneous clauses in adolescents with …

Semantic contingency of maternal verbal input directed at very preterm and full-term children

N Salerni, C Suttora - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Several studies have testified to the importance of a responsive linguistic input for children's
language acquisition and development. In particular, maternal use of expansions, imitations …