Vocabulary selection: a case report

Yorkston, Kathryn M.; Honsinger, Melissa J.; Dowden, Patricia; Marriner, Nola

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“…Most advice is practical and is related to strategies and sources for vocabulary selection. Strategies have included environmental inventories and observations of the individual (Yorkston et al 1989), writing dialogues of routines, role play, tape recording of interactions and communication diaries (Beukelman et al 1991). Most of these are not immediately transferable to Talking Mats but are nevertheless relevant.…”

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Putting words into their mouths? Interviewing people with learning disabilities and little/no speech

Brewster¹

2004

Brit J Learn Disabil

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People with learning disabilities who are unable to speak are often excluded from research. Techniques to support interviewing, such as Talking Mats, can help to improve the quality of research in which such people could not otherwise participate. Talking Mats, in common with many techniques which augment communication, relies on someone else selecting the vocabulary to be made available. This paper outlines the Talking Mats framework, and discusses various methods of vocabulary selection. In particular it reports on empirical work with two effective communication aid users, who were invited to advise on vocabulary. It is proposed that many of the difficulties of research involving people with limited communication, can be ameliorated by viewing the process of accessing their views not as a one off event, but as an ongoing process.

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Putting words into their mouths? Interviewing people with learning disabilities and little/no speech

Brewster¹

2004

Brit J Learn Disabil

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“…Diaries were used to record topics of conversation which naturally occurred during the day in the expectation that this would provide evidence of actual subjects or topics talked about. Diaries or inventories of conversational themes have contributed to the sourcing of vocabulary selection described in case studies conducted by Yorkston et al (1989) and Garrett et al (1989). Participants were not asked to record verbatim conversations: the intention was not to record actual words used, but to identify the main themes or topics.…”

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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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“…효과적인 의사소통을 하기 위해서는 핵심어휘와 부수어휘를 둘 다 AAC 체계에 포함시켜야 하겠지만 (Balandin & Iacono, 1998;Beukelman et al, 1991;Yorkston, Honsinger, Dowden, & Marriner, 1989), 다음과 같은 특징들 때문에 핵심어휘는 AAC 중재 시 보 다 중요하게 고려되고 있다. 위에서 언급하였듯이 상대적으로 적은 수의 낱말들로 다양한 환경에서 여러 사람에 의해 사용되기 때문 에 낱말 하나가 가지고 있는 효율성이 높다.…”

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“…위에서 언급하였듯이 상대적으로 적은 수의 낱말들로 다양한 환경에서 여러 사람에 의해 사용되기 때문 에 낱말 하나가 가지고 있는 효율성이 높다. 특히 의사소통판이나 의사소통책과 같이 비전자적 도구를 사용하는 경우에는 어휘를 담아낼 수 있는 물리적 공간이 제한되기 때문에 활용도가 높은 핵 심어휘를 우선적으로 배치하여 보다 효과적인 중재 효과를 기대할 수 있다 (Morris & Newman, 1993;Yorkston et al, 1989). 아울러 핵 심어휘를 전자적 또는 비전자적 AAC 장치의 고정된 위치에 배치 할 경우, 반복된 선택동작을 통해 목표 낱말의 위치에 대한 학습이 쉽게 이루어지므로 움직임의 자동화(automaticity)를 통해 낱말탐 색에 요구되는 인지적 부담을 줄일 수 있다 (Boenisch & Soto, 2015).…”

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Analysis on Base Forms of High-Frequency Predicates to Develop Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems

Shin¹

2017

Commun Sci Disord

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Objectives: Core vocabulary is key to successful communication for people who rely on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems. It is important to meet the needs of adult AAC users who want to produce a wide range of inflected predicates on the system. The purpose of the current study was to determine the high-frequency (HF) base forms of predicates and to predict the efficiency in generating various sentence types by using those base-forms that are combinable with numerous endings. Methods: Language samples from the twelve healthy adults were used and 216 HF predicates in inflected forms were identified. After transforming all inflected forms into base forms, the number of different words, the mean frequency of a single HF predicate, and the percentage of total sample words that were accounted for by HF base-forms were calculated. The findings were compared with inflected forms of HF predicates. Results: Sixty-three base forms were identified. The mean frequency of single predicates was 53.83, and 73.97% of the total sample's predicates were accounted for by HF base forms, which shows a great decrease in the number of different words, but a great increase in the mean frequency and the percentage of accountability. Conclusion: The current study provides evidence that a small number of HF base forms of predicates can be used efficiently to produce various types of inflected predicates by combining with endings. The need for developing effective AAC tools that reflect HF base verb forms is discussed.

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Vocabulary selection: a case report

Cited by 30 publications

References 10 publications

Putting words into their mouths? Interviewing people with learning disabilities and little/no speech

Putting words into their mouths? Interviewing people with learning disabilities and little/no speech

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

Analysis on Base Forms of High-Frequency Predicates to Develop Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems

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