Considerations in the Planning of Communication Intervention: Selecting a Lexicon

Karlan, George R.; Lloyd, Lyle L.

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“…Because message selection is a complex process, it cannot be assumed that users will easily and automatically generate a comprehensive list of words which will be most functional for them. To illustrate the difficulty in creating comprehensive vocabulary lists, consider the survey conducted by Karlan and Lloyd (1983) in which they asked normal individuals knowledgeable in the needs of the severely disabled to list all items necessary for inclusion in the vocabulary of adolescents and adults. Their final list contained only slightly more than 200 words.…”

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“…These were items from the Picsyms Dictionary (Carlson, 1985) and the word list from the Vois 140, 3 a speech output device with a large, stored vocabulary. G. T. and her speech/language clinician reviewed each item in the four vocabulary lists and rated it according to the scale described by Karlan and Lloyd (1983). Approximately 100 items were reviewed a second time as a measure of the reliability of G. T.'s ratings.…”

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“…Four of the standard vocabulary lists were selected for review. First, the Karlan and Lloyd (1983) list contained items that normal individuals familiar with severely disabled individuals considered important for an initial expressive lexicon. This list was considered an excellent source of core vocabulary items, those items that the majority of severely communicatively handicapped adults would find useful.…”

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“…These lists may be found in the literature or developed from environmental inventories. Social validation techniques are designed to assess the social usefulness of intervention programs and have been used by Karlan and Lloyd (1983) to rate the importance of lexical items. Their technique involved assigning a numerical value to each lexical item.…”

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Vocabulary selection: a case report

Yorkston

Honsinger

Dowden

et al. 1989

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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In this article, the process of vocabulary selection is described for a nonreading, severely physically disabled adult for whom an initial expressive communication approach was being developed. The process included use of environmental inventories, communication diaries, and review of standard vocabulary lists as a means of message selection. A comparison of this user's vocabulary list with 11 standard vocabulary lists indicated that even the largest of these vocabulary lists do not contain all the words considered important by the user. Thus, review of standard vocabulary lists may be considered a necessary but not sufficient aspect of vocabulary selection.

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Vocabulary selection: a case report

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Honsinger

Dowden

et al. 1989

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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“…Vocabulary preferences change and vary over time, and periodic re-evaluations are necessary to reflect individual changes (Karlan & Lloyd, 1983). Talking Mats™ supports such re-evaluations and provides an efficient way of updating and re-evaluating the topic and vocabulary needs and preferences of individuals.…”

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The self-determined and partner-predicted topic preferences of adults with aphasia

Beringer

2013

Aphasiology

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Vocabulary needs in augmentative and alternative communication: a sample of conversational topics between staff providing services to adults with learning difficulties and their service users

Graves

2000

Brit J Learn Disabil

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Summary This paper describes an attempt to gather information about the vocabulary needs of a sample of people with learning difficulties in order to inform the content of local augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) resources and training programmes. The participants were staff members working in a range of local day care and residential services who were asked to record topics of conversation in diaries. The results were analysed in terms of the frequency of topic areas similar to those described by Maslow's model of human need. The influences on the development of vocabularies for AAC programmes and philosophies current in services for adults with learning difficulties are briefly discussed. The approaches of two of perhaps the most widely used resources (i.e. Makaton and Signalong) are described in the context of their rationale for vocabulary content. The results of the present study suggest that Physical Needs and Function were the most frequent topic areas for conversation. There were far fewer conversations recorded for Social and Emotional topics. Flexible topic‐based frameworks for AAC programmes are suggested as a model that might be able to respond to individual and local vocabulary needs more readily than any one prescribed vocabulary.

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Considerations in the Planning of Communication Intervention: Selecting a Lexicon

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Vocabulary selection: a case report

Vocabulary selection: a case report

The self-determined and partner-predicted topic preferences of adults with aphasia

Vocabulary needs in augmentative and alternative communication: a sample of conversational topics between staff providing services to adults with learning difficulties and their service users

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