Conversation Repair and Acquired Hearing Impairment: A Preliminary Quantitative Clinical Study

Conversation repair: Ecological validity of outcome measures in acquired hearing impairment

“…In this and other studies (Lind et al, 2004Lind et al, 2009;Lind, 2010), one type of repair sequence in particular was consistently identified by its patterns of occurrence to be associated with acquired HI. This repair sequence is known in CA parlance as an Other-Initiated, Self-repair (OISR; Schegloff et al, 1977) and is characterized by a miscommunication arising in one speaker's turns at talk that is questioned by the listener and then addressed by the speaker of the miscommunication.…”

“…In Extract 1, the first indication of the need for repair is the repair initiator (line 4) uttered by N, immediately following J's prior turn. In this example, the repair maybe labelled an open class initiator (Drew, 1997) often identified in the aural rehabilitation literature as a general or non-specific initiator (Lind et al, 2004Tye-Murray, 1991). In response to this brief interjecfion J repeats (in line 5) a portion of her prior (line 3) turn.…”

“…Lind and colleagues (Lind et al, 2004(Lind et al, , 2009Lind, 2010) have established that certain types of conversation repair arise frequently in conversations involving adults who have acquired HI and that their occurrence suggests an asymmetry in miscommunication. Further these studies have identified strategies that HI adults and their partners use to address and resolve these miscommunications.…”

The occurrence of ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘what house’ and other repair initiations in the home environment of hearing‐impaired individuals

“…, Lind et al . , , Skelt , Sparrow and Hird ). However, further information is needed on how repair initiations are used in everyday conversations.…”

“…The method of Conversation Analysis (CA), which has a central focus on how turns of talk are utilized in relation to one another (sequential organization of talk), offers tools for the type of analysis needed in the present study (Lind et al . , , Skelt , Lind ).…”