Topic repetitiveness after traumatic brain injury: An emergent, jointly managed behaviour

Body, Richard; Parker, Mark

doi:10.1080/02699200400027189

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“…Like Coelho et al (2002), Bond and Godfrey (1997) reported that the acquired brain injury (ABI) group's turns included fewer prompts (utterances meant to elicit verbal information from the listener) and more responses, and conversation partners of participants with TBI prompted more and took shorter turns. Body and Parker (2005) conducted a case study in which they also noted that the male participant with TBI took long turns on a repetitive topic.…”

Section: Turn-taking In Adults With Tbimentioning

confidence: 98%

Conversational turn-taking in adults with acquired brain injury

Murphy

Huang²,

Montgomery

et al. 2014

Aphasiology

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Section: Turn-taking In Adults With Tbimentioning

confidence: 98%

Conversational turn-taking in adults with acquired brain injury

Murphy

Huang²,

Montgomery

et al. 2014

Aphasiology

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“…It has been observed in patients with traumatic brain injury (see Body and Parker, 2005) and Fragile X without autism (Hagerman, Amiri, and Cronister, 1991;Abbeduto and Hagerman, 1997;Belser and Sudhalter, 2001;Murphy and Abbeduto, 2007). Its association with autism emerged in early practitioners' accounts which contained descriptions of children who typically spoke in monologues, displayed very asymmetrical participation in topics or obsessive preoccupation with unusual themes (e.g.…”

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Using conversation analysis to explore the recurrence of a topic in the talk of a boy with an autism spectrum disorder

Stribling

Rae

Dickerson

2009

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Some higher functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are reported to produce perseverative talk, especially around 'special interests'. Topic perseveration is a form of pragmatic impairment captured in Prizant and Rydell's (1993) continuum of unconventional verbal behaviour in autism. Although widely reported, there is little systematic empirical research into this phenomenon. This paper considers the utility of Conversation Analysis in developing knowledge in this area, drawing upon data involving a boy with an ASD interacting with a researcher and a mobile robot platform. Although a frequency analysis of the boy's talk on a single topic may suggest that it is perseverative in nature, in a sequential analysis of both talk and non-spoken activities this study aims to show how these may be interactionally-embedded. It is suggested that, in considering the interactional salience of apparently perseverative talk, it can be useful to explore the participation framework in which the topic is revisited.

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“…In the case of TBI, CA research has focused on patterns in touching, silences, topic repetitiveness, and task-based talk (Barnes, 2012;Body & Parker, 2005;Bond & Godfrey, 1997;Denman & Wilkinson, 2011;Friedland & Miller, 1998). Collectively, these studies demonstrate that CA is useful for providing detailed analysis of specific communicative patterns in interaction between individuals with TBI and their familiar communication partner(s).…”

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Questioning in conversations before and after communication partner training for individuals with traumatic brain injury

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Background: Social communication training involving individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their everyday communication partner(s) facilitates improvements in the quality of their interactions and information transfer. Recent research has indicated that the ways conversation partners use questions may play an important role in this improvement.Aims: This study aimed to describe questioning patterns during casual conversations before and after communication partner training using Conversation Analysis. Methods & Procedures: Samples of casual conversations involving four individuals with TBI and their everyday communication partners were examined. These samples were collected before and after intervention in the course of a larger clinical trial investigating the efficacy of a communication partner training program entitled TBI Express. Four dyads were chosen based on their Adapted Kagan Scale scores; a primary outcome measure in the clinical trial. Two dyads with the greatest change on these scales ("Kagan plus") and two dyads with the least change ("Kagan neutral") were selected. Approximately 10 minutes of casual conversations per dyad were transcribed in detail. Questions in each sample were identified and analysed qualitatively using conversation-analytic practices, focusing on aspects of sequence organisation.Outcomes & Results: "Kagan plus" dyads had obvious changes in their questioning practices following training. These changes facilitated selection of topics and the development of related talk, i.e., improved communication. Conversely, the "Kagan neutral" dyads exhibited less obvious differences in their questioning practices after training, which meant that improved communication in the postintervention samples was less apparent. Conclusions: The present study provides detailed insight into how everyday communication partners' questioning practices contribute to communicative success. This information has the potential to help clinicians assess and improve interactions involving individuals with TBI and their everyday communication partners.

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Topic repetitiveness after traumatic brain injury: An emergent, jointly managed behaviour

Cited by 31 publications

References 25 publications

Conversational turn-taking in adults with acquired brain injury

Conversational turn-taking in adults with acquired brain injury

Using conversation analysis to explore the recurrence of a topic in the talk of a boy with an autism spectrum disorder

Questioning in conversations before and after communication partner training for individuals with traumatic brain injury

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