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Aided language measures (Lee et al., 2022) ...
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Abstract:
Purpose: Although many valid, reliable, and developmentally sensitive measures exist to monitor the language gains of children who rely on spoken language to communicate, the same is not true for graphic symbol communicators. This study is a first step in developing such measures by examining the interobserver agreement (IOA) and within-observer agreement of 13 measures designed to monitor the language progress of children who use aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). These measures are based on the Graphic Symbol Utterance and Sentence Development Framework (Binger et al., 2020) and are hypothesized to capture various phases of graphic symbol communication. Method: Four graduate student observers coded 13 measures across 57 different play-based sessions of children with Down syndrome ages 3;0–5;11 (years;months). For IOA, sessions were coded by two different observers. For within-observer agreement, all sessions were recoded by the same coders. Corpus-level analyses were completed to ...
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Keyword:
Child language acquisition; Communication studies; Visual communication design incl. graphic design
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.23641/asha.19601551
https://asha.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Aided_language_measures_Lee_et_al_2022_/19601551
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