Adult Partner-Augmented Communication Input to Youth With Mental Retardation Using the System for Augmenting Language (SAL)
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Vol. 38 (4) , 902-912
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.3804.902
Abstract
The primary purpose of this study was to characterize the frequency and nature of augmented input that adult partners provided to 13 youth with mental retardation as they began to use the System for Augmenting Language (SAL). Analyses of youth-partner interactions revealed differences in the frequency with which home and school partners provided aug-mented input and in the manner and style of home and school partners' augmented input, particularly in directiveness and position of lexigram symbols within utterances. Overall, partners naturally provided augmented input in a manner likely to promote youth's learning of the SAL.Keywords
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