Augumentative and Alternative Communication
European Perspectives
exc Business and Economy (WHURR)
Augmentative and alternative communication concerns the use of
non-speech communication modes for people unable to use speech and
for augmenting communication for people with limited spoken
language. This book focuses on the use of manual and graphic
communication systems for clinical populations with developmental
disorders of speech and language, including children, adolescents
and adults with autism, dysphsia, intellectual impairment and motor
impairment.
Among the topics covered are: augmentative and alternative
communication in Europe; joint attention and communication;
implications for assessment and alternative language intervention
in autism and related disorders; language input and attention
strategies; communication functions in aided language use; being an
interesting conversation partner; a neurolinguistic approach to
graphic language intervention; augmented telecommunication for
people with intellectual impairment; improving communication and
language skills of children with cerebral palsy; the social world
of non-speaking people; and the psychology and sociology of
introducing augmentative and alternative communication in
Hungary.
Introduction.
Chapter 1 Preliminaries to a comprehensive model of
augmentative and alternative communication, Stephen von
Tetzchner, Nicola Grove, Filip Loncke, Sarah Barnett, Bencie Woll
and John Clibbens.
Chapter 2 Situating augmentative and alternative
communication interention, Harald Martinsen and Stephen von
Tetzchner.
Chapter 3 Joint attention and alterantive language
intervention in autism: Implications of theory for practice,
Encarnacion Sarria, Juan Carlos and Javier Tamarit.
Chapter 4 Words and strategies: Conversations with young
children who use aided language, Stephen von Tetzchner and
Harald Martinsen.
Chapter 5 Referring expressions in conversations between
aided and natural speakers, Sarah Collins.
Chapter 6 The twopword stage in manual signs: Lanaguage
development in signers with intellectual impairments, Nicola
Grove, Julie Dockrell and Bencie Woll.
Chapter 7 The medium or the message: A study of speaking
children using communication boards, Martine M. Smith.
Chapter 8 Sounds and silence: Interaction in aided
language use, Erland Hjelmquist and Annika Dahlgren
Sandberg.
Chapter 9 A psycholoinguistic approach to graphic
language use, Erland Hjelmquist and Annika Dahlgren
Sandberg.
Chapter 10 Being an interesting conversation partner,
Norman Alm and Alan F. Newell.
Chapter 11 A Semiotic analysis of the possibilities and
limitations of Blissymbols, Serenella Besio and Maria Grazia
Chinato.
Chapter 12 Augmented telecommunication for people with
intellectual impairment - a preview, Jane Brodin and Stephen von
Tetzchner.
Chapter 13 Enhancing communication skills with children
with Down syndrome: Early use of manual signs, Kaisa
Launonen.
Chapter 14 Early development of symbolic communication
and linguistic complexity through augmentative and alternative
communication, Margriet J.M. Heim and Anne E.
Baker-Mills.
Chapter 15 Allowing for developmental potential: A case
study of intervention change, Susanne Moller and Stephen von
Tetzchner.
Chapter 16 Supporting graphic language acquisition by a
girl with multiple impairments, Carman Basil and Emili
Soro-Camats.
Chapter 17 Cleaning lades an broken buses - A case study
on the use of Blissymbols and traditional orthography, Manfred
Gangkofer and Stephen von Tetzchner.
Chapter 18 Improving communication and language skills of
children with developmental disorders: Family involvement in
graphic language intervention, Lourdes Lourenco, Joaquim Faias,
Rosa Afonso, Ana Moreira and Jose M. Ferreira.
Chapter 19 Collaborative problem solving in communication
intervention, Eva Bjorck-Akesson, Mats Granlund and Cecilia
Olsson.
Chapter 20 From system to communications: Staff training
for attitude change, Elisabete Mendes and Jorge Rato.
Chapter 21 Psychological and sociological aspects of
introducing augmentative an alternative communication in Hungary:
Tales, facts and numbers, Sophia L. Kalman and Andras
Pajor.
References and citation index.
Subject index.
