Author Archives: Skip Ryan

Clinkenbeard, M. J. (2020). A posthuman approach to agency, disability, and technology in social interactions. Technical Communication Quarterly, 29(2), 115–135. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2019.1646319   This study examined how the social action of choosing a color is collaboratively negotiated and coordinated between a seven-year-old child with Pitt Hopkins Syndrome and autism who uses...

Menjivar Dominguez, J., & Yläneva, K. (2010). A case study of aided story telling: Comparing the Step-by-StepTM with the How was School Today Prototype [Unpublished master’s thesis]. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A395624&dswid=1060   In this study, storytelling interactions are compared between a 10-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and his peers in two conditions; in...

Clarke, M., & Wilkinson, R. (2013). Communicative competence in children’s peer interaction. In N. Norén, C. Samuelsson, & C. Plejert (Eds.), Aided communication in everyday interaction (pp. 23–58). J&R Press.   This study examined the use of multiple modalities to collaboratively achieve affiliation in two student dyads that include one...

Clarke, M., & Wilkinson, R. (2010). Communication aid use in children’s conversation: Time, timing and speaker transfer. In H. Gardner & M. Forrester (Eds.), Analysing interactions in childhood: Insights from conversation analysis (pp. 249–266). John Wiley & Sons.   This study examined how progressivity was negotiated during speaker transfer between...

Clarke, M., & Wilkinson, R. (2009). The collaborative construction of non-serious episodes of interaction by non-speaking children with cerebral palsy and their peers. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 23(8), 583–597. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699200802491132   This study examined how two speaking and two non-speaking children with cerebral palsy aged 10 to 14 years collaborated...

Clarke, M., & Wilkinson, R. (2008). Interaction between children with cerebral palsy and their peers 2: Understanding initiated VOCA-mediated turns. AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 24(1), 3–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/07434610701390400   This study documented examined initiated voice-output communication aid (VOCA)-mediated turns of two children aged 7;11 and 14;10 years with cerebral palsy...

Clarke, M., & Wilkinson, R. (2007). Interaction between children with cerebral palsy and their peers 1: Organizing and understanding VOCA use. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 23(4), 336–348. https://doi.org/10.1080/07434610701390350   This study examined how VOCA use emerged of two children aged 7;11 and 10;8 years with cerebral palsy when interacting with...

Clarke, M., Bloch, S., & Wilkinson, R. (2013). Speaker transfer in children’s peer conversation: Completing communication-aid-mediated contributions. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 29(1), 37–53. https://doi.org/10.3109/07434618.2013.767490   This study examined features of speaker transfer between a 11;7-year-old boy with CP using a voice-output communication aid (VOCA) and his peer without disabilities. The...

Clarke, M. (2016). Co-construction, asymmetry and multimodality in children’s conversations. In M. M. Smith & J. Murray (Eds.), The silent partner? Language, interaction and aided communication (pp. 177–198). J&R Press.   This chapter reviewed the body of research on quantitative as well as qualitative approaches to analysis of the face-to-face...

Clarke, M. T. (2005). Conversational interaction between children using communication aids and their peers (Publication No. 27821301) [Doctoral dissertation, University College of London]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.   This study examined three children with cerebral palsy aged 7;11 to 14;10 years who use voice output communication aides interacting with...