Category: Developmental Disability

Sundqvist, A., Plejert, C., & Rönnberg, J. (2010). The role of active participation in interaction for children who use augmentative and alternative communication. Communication & Medicine, 7(2), 165–175. https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.v7i2.165   This study examined interactional practices that facilitated and hindered the active participation of three children with cerebral palsy aged 7...

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...

Sigurd Pilesjö, M., & Rasmussen, G. (2011). Exploring interaction between a non-speaking boy using aided AAC and his everyday communication partners: Features of turn organizing and turn design. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 2(2), 183–213. https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.v2i2.183   This study examined the interactions of an 8;6-year-old boy with cerebral...

Sigurd Pilesjö, M., & Norén, N. (2021). Facilitators’ use of a communication device following children’s aided turns in everyday interaction. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 10(1), 67–98. https://doi.org/10.1558/JIRCD.19318   This study examined four children ages 8 to 12 years with cerebral palsy who are emerging communicators or situation-dependent...

Sigurd Pilesjö, M. (2013). On the use of bodily action and vocalizations as resources and methods when claiming turns in aided interaction. In N. Norén, C. Samuelsson, & C. Plejert (Eds.), Aided communication in everyday interaction (pp. 59–94). J&R Press.   This study examined the multimodal use of embodied and...

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)...

Samuelsson, C., & Ferreira, J. (2013). Recycling in communication involving a boy with autism using picture exchange system (PECS). In I. N. Norén, C. Samuelsson, & C. Pleijerts (Eds.), Aided communication in everyday interaction (pp. 127–151). J & R Press Ltd.   This study examined the types and functions of...

Rasmussen, G. (2013). That’s my story! Resisting disabling processes in a therapeutic activity. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.v4i2.273   This study examined the processes of disablement and resistance to disablement in the interactions between a speech-language pathologist (SLP) and a 6-year-old boy with specific language impairment...

Plejert, C., & Sundqvist, A. (2013). A dialogical approach to theory of mind in aided and non-aided child interaction. In N. Norén, C. Samuelsson, & C. Plejert (Eds.), Aided communication in everyday interaction (pp. 153–188). J&R Press.   This study examined evidence of a dialogical view of theory of mind...