Category: Aicardi Goutiéres Syndrome

Savolainen, I., Klippi, A., Tykkyläinen, T., Higginbotham, J., & Launonen, K. (2020). The structure of participants’ turn-transition practices in aided conversations that use speech-output technologies. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 36(1), 18–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2019.1698654   This study examined turn-transition structures used during aided turn initiations between four male students aged 7 to...

Savolainen, I., Klippi, A., Tykkyläinen, T., & Launonen, K. (2020). Linguistic and temporal resources of pre-stored utterances in everyday conversations. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 36(3), 195–214. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265659020950388   This study examined the linguistic and temporal resources of pre-stored utterances that were used in co-construction between four school-aged aided communicators...

Savolainen, I., Klippi, A., & Launonen, K. (2018). Coconstructing in conversations using a communication book. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 9(2), 141–171. https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.36668   This study described the processes of co-construction between an 18-year-old (with a diagnosis of Aicardi goutieres syndrome) and a ten-year-old boy (with brainstem stroke)...