Frontotemporal dementia, sociality, and identity: Comparing adult-child and caregiver-frontotemporal dementia interactions

Joaquin, Anna Dina L.

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“…In addition, the notion of the cognitive and communicative ecosystem discussed by Hydén () gives researchers and practitioners a way to consider how cues to thought, communication and action are distributed not just in the communication of others but also in the physical environment. There are parallels in the work of Smith (), Mikesell () and Joaquin (), who demonstrate the potential that conversation analysis has to uncover the perspective of the person with frontotemporal dementia, including situated displays of interpersonal awareness. This provides an expanded concept of awareness, which focuses not only on having awareness in decontextualized test situations but includes how awareness might be displayed in everyday settings with others.…”

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“…Joaquin () demonstrates how certain interactional features (directives, ‘let's/we’ framed sequences, initiation–response–evaluation sequences) used to guide the behaviour of the person with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, were like parent–child interactions. Such verbal assistance led to a diminished status, despite evidence in some cases that competency was missed and, therefore, this was not always necessary.…”

Section: Review Findings: Conversation In Frontotemporal Dementiamentioning

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Everyday conversation in dementia: a review of the literature to inform research and practice

Kindell

Keady

Sage

et al. 2016

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

119

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BackgroundThere has been increasing interest in dementia care in recent years, including how practitioners, service providers and society in general can help individuals to live well with the condition. An important aspect to this is provision of advice to ensure conversation partners effectively support the person with dementia in conversation.AimsTo provide a descriptive review of the literature examining everyday conversation in dementia in order to inform practice and research.Methods & ProceduresThis review used a method specifically developed for reviewing conversation analytic and related literature. A range of databases were searched using key words and explicitly described inclusion criteria leading to a final corpus of 50 titles. Using this qualitative methodology, each paper was examined and data extracted. The contribution of each of these is described and the implications for practice and research are outlined.Main ContributionThis review examined studies into conversation in Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia, grouping these into: early influential studies; work drawing on positioning theory; studies using social and linguistic approaches; collaborative storytelling; formulaic language; studies specifically using conversation analysis; and conversation as a target for individualized therapy. In addition, more recent work examining primary progressive aphasia and behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia was explored. Overall, this review indicates that research examining conversation in natural settings provides a rich source of data to explore not just the challenges within conversation for those taking part, but also the skills retained by the person with dementia. An important aspect of this understanding is the notion that these skills relate not only to information exchange but also aspects of social interaction. The role of others in scaffolding the conversation abilities of the person with dementia and the potential of this for developing interventions are discussed.Conclusions & ImplicationsThe review indicates that interventions targeting conversation in dementia are often advocated in the literature but currently such approaches remain to be systematically evaluated. In addition, many of the important insights arising from these studies have yet to inform multidisciplinary dementia care practice.

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Section: Review Findings: Conversation In Frontotemporal Dementiamentioning

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Everyday conversation in dementia: a review of the literature to inform research and practice

Kindell

Keady

Sage

et al. 2016

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

119

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“…This can increase the visual information about the speaker and their talk that is available to the hearing-impaired person and can assist them in making sense of that talk. Another feature of co-participant talk which has been noted across several different forms of atypical interaction, such as in conversations involving people with learning disability (Antaki, 2013) or dementia (Joaquin, 2010) is the use of known-answer questions (Schegloff, 2007) whose regular use in the case of typical speakers is usually restricted to specialised contexts, such as classrooms or interactions between adults and young children.…”

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Atypical Interaction: Conversation Analysis and Communicative Impairments

Wilkinson

2019

Research on Language and Social Interaction

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In this article I review conversation analytic work on 'atypical interaction', that is social interactions where a participant has a communicative impairment. Drawing together some of the main themes and findings in the field, I highlight three forms of atypicality in these interactions, with each linked to more than one type of communicative impairment: (1) atypical forms of delay in TCU progressivity; (2) atypical problems of understandability, intelligibility and hearing; and (3) atypical actions. I also discuss forms of atypicality that appear to arise from one or more participants adapting their talk or conduct to deal with the impact of the impairment within interaction. The article concludes with some considerations of directions that future work in this field might take.Before discussing where the study of atypical interaction currently stands, it may be useful to provide some background, both to the nature and range of communicative disorders, and to how CA has been applied in this area over the last few decades. Communication disordersHistorically, communication disorders have been the focus of attention from a number of academic and clinical disciplines, including medicine, psychology, psychiatry, linguistics, and speech pathology/therapy. As a result, there are a number of competing approaches to the classification of communication disorders (and sub-types of particular disorders).One broad division of types of disorders that impact on communication is between those that are 'congenital/developmental' (occurring before birth or during development in childhood) and those that are 'acquired' (occurring after the person has developed communication, most commonly in adulthood). Another distinction is between those that are 'organic' (that have an anatomical, physiological or neurological basis) and 'functional' (that have no such known basis). A third type of classification, which is the one which will be primarily used in this paper, is to divide up communication disorders in terms of different areas of competency that are involved in the production of coherent and intelligible talk and other social conduct. These areas of competency can be selectively, or at least to some extent selectively impaired 1 . One system of grouping disorders along these lines is set out below (for further details of these disorders, and for other ways of grouping them, see e.g. Kent, 2004). Disorders in which speech is impairedThis includes motor speech disorders such as dysarthria, which can be present in people with developmental disorders (for example, cerebral palsy), or acquired disorders (for example, Parkinson's disease or motor neurone disease). Dysarthria can impair the speaker's ability to physically produce intelligible speech due to impairments to motor speech subsystems (articulation, respiration, phonation, resonance). Some people with dysarthria, particularly in more severe cases, may rely on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to communicate more than on speech. AAC can range from writing or drawi...

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Joaquin¹

2018

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science

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Frontotemporal dementia, sociality, and identity: Comparing adult-child and caregiver-frontotemporal dementia interactions

Cited by 4 publications

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Everyday conversation in dementia: a review of the literature to inform research and practice

Everyday conversation in dementia: a review of the literature to inform research and practice

Atypical Interaction: Conversation Analysis and Communicative Impairments

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