Repair in speech and language therapy interaction: Investigating pragmatic language impairment of children

Merrison, Sally; Merrison, Andrew John

doi:10.1191/0265659005ct288oa

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“…Brinton and Fujiki (1982) report that children with language impairment used fewer requests for clarification in a referential communication task than children with typically developing communication skills. According to Merrison and Merrison (2005) children with pragmatic language impairment did not initiate repairs as frequently as children with language impairment without pragmatic problems and children with typical language development when participating in a referential communication task. Donahue et al (1980) suggest that children with learning disabilities are less likely to initiate repairs in conversation than normal controls.…”

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“…The task usually involves different kinds of physical items, or pictures depicting different kinds of items, that vary on certain dimensions (for example, size or colour). Referential communication tasks have been widely used in studying different clinical populations (Brinton and Fujiki 1982, Bishop and Adams 1991, Leinonen and Letts 1997, Reuterskiöld Wagner et al 2001, Merrison and Merrison 2005). Brinton and Fujiki (1982) report that children with language impairment used fewer requests for clarification in a referential communication task than children with typically developing communication skills.…”

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The deaf teenagers with CI in the study seem to be equally collaborative and responsible conversational partners as the hearing teenagers. The interpretation is that certain conditions in this study facilitate their participation in conversation. Such conditions might be a calm environment, a task that is structured and without time limits and that the partner is well known to the teenager with CI.

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“…Simoneau et al ., ; Williamson et al ., ) and language‐related impairments (e.g. Merrison & Merrison, ; Dockrell, Lindsay & Connelly, ).…”

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The origins of gestures and language: history, current advances and proposed theories

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Investigating in depth the mechanisms underlying human and non-human primate intentional communication systems (involving gestures, vocalisations, facial expressions and eye behaviours) can shed light on the evolutionary roots of language. Reports on non-human primates, particularly great apes, suggest that gestural communication would have been a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language, mainly based on the evidence of large communication repertoires and their associated multifaceted nature of intentionality that are key properties of language. Such research fuels important debates on the origins of gestures and language. We review here three non-mutually exclusive processes that can explain mainly great apes' gestural acquisition and development: phylogenetic ritualisation, ontogenetic ritualisation, and learning via social negotiation. We hypothesise the following scenario for the evolutionary origins of gestures: gestures would have appeared gradually through evolution via signal ritualisation following the principle of derived activities, with the key involvement of emotional expression and processing. The increasing level of complexity of socioecological lifestyles and associated daily manipulative activities might then have enabled the acquisition and development of different interactional strategies throughout the life cycle. Many studies support a multimodal origin of language. However, we stress that the origins of language are not only multimodal, but more broadly multicausal. We propose a multicausal theory of language origins which better explains current findings. It postulates that primates' communicative signalling is a complex trait continually shaped by a cost-benefit trade-off of signal production and processing of interactants in relation to four closely interlinked categories of evolutionary and life cycle factors: species, individual and context-related characteristics as well as behaviour and its characteristics. We conclude by suggesting directions for future research to improve our understanding of the evolutionary roots of gestures and language.

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“…Repair trajectories are particularly delicate in contexts in which language impairments are a central issue (Milroy and Perkins 1992;Merrison and Merrison 2005). In speech therapy interactions, repair sequences create opportunities to focus on instructional issues (Ridley et al 2002;Radford 2008) as they may challenge the linguistic and interactional competence of the patient (Wilkinson 2007), which may trouble the progression of the interaction.…”

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Laughter in correction sequences in speech therapy sessions

Petitjean

Cangemi

2016

Journal of Pragmatics

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This article deals with the interactional achievement of laughter in speech therapy sessions with adolescents suffering from speech and language impairments. We aim to describe how laughter is locally organized by the adolescent and his/her therapist, and how laughter production provides relevant information about the organization of preference in speech therapy interactions. Using both a conversation analytic approach and quantification, we analyzed video-recorded speech therapy interactions between therapists and adolescent patients in French-speaking Switzerland. We show that adolescents initiate more laughs than therapists overall, but that this pattern is even stronger in correcting contexts, in which such laughs are also predominantly not shared. In correcting activities, the sequential organization of laughter is related to the type of correction trajectory and to the participants' priority in terms of task management. The adolescent produces unilateral standalone laughter when the therapist produces an overt correction, and produces a unilateral laughter-infiltrated second pair-part after the therapist invites him/her to self-correct. By producing unilateral or shared laughter, participants index the importance of correcting business as the main instructional task (unilateral laughter) or as a side activity in the management of an interactional task (shared laughter). Thus, the sequential organization of laughter is not only tied to the asymmetry of institutional status but also to the type of action jointly performed by the participants. By investigating a phenomenon that is still little-knownlaughter in therapeutic interactions with dysphasic adolescentsour study provides relevant therapeutic resources for therapists in the collaborative management of a central activity in therapeutic intervention: the business of correction.

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Repair in speech and language therapy interaction: Investigating pragmatic language impairment of children

Cited by 26 publications

References 19 publications

Deaf teenagers with cochlear implants in conversation with hearing peers

Deaf teenagers with cochlear implants in conversation with hearing peers

The origins of gestures and language: history, current advances and proposed theories

Laughter in correction sequences in speech therapy sessions

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