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UTILIZATION OF AN AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICE TO FACILITATE WH-QUESTION-ASKING BY A CHILD WITH AUTISM/PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY

DEARDORFF, JOHN GLENN
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997274348

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2001, MA, University of Cincinnati, Allied Health Sciences : Communication Sciences and Disorders.
he purpose of this study was to discover if a naturalistic teaching technique, used by Koegel, Camarata, Valdez-Menchaca, and Koegel (1998) with children with autism, could be applied to a young subject with autism/PDD who used an augmentative communication device, in order to instruct her to ask "what's that?" questions. Additionally, the research tried to determine if a significant difference existed between the number of "what's that?" questions generated when the child with autism/PDD was with a familiar communication partner compared to an unfamiliar communication partner and was provided with preferential items. It also focused on discovering if a significant difference existed between the number of "what's that?" questions generated when the child with autism/PDD was with a familiar communication partner compared to an unfamiliar communication partner and was provided with non-preferential items. Intervention sessions were conducted with the subject, and the data collected from them was categorized. The "what's that?" questions asked by the child were classified as either spontaneous or cued. The most significant result of the research study was that the subject was able to acquire the ability to generate "what's that?" questions using her augmentative communication device as a result of the training sessions. The intervention sessions resulted in the subject demonstrating a statistically significant increase in her ability to ask "what's that?" questions when compared to the baseline measurement. Yet while the subject asked more "what's that?" questions when provided with preferential items and when interacting with a familiar communication partner, the difference was not statistically significant when compared to the number of queries formulated when she was with an unfamiliar communication partner. However, the results also determined that while the subject generated a greater number of "what's that?" questions when provided with non-preferential items and when interacting with an unfamiliar communication partner, the difference was not statistically significant when compared to the number of questions asked when she was with a familiar communication partner.
Dr. Sandra Grether (Advisor)
1 p.
Health Sciences, Speech Pathology
augmentative communicative device; WH-QUESTION-ASKING; Autism/PPD

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  • DEARDORFF, J. G. (2001). UTILIZATION OF AN AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICE TO FACILITATE WH-QUESTION-ASKING BY A CHILD WITH AUTISM/PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997274348

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • DEARDORFF, JOHN. UTILIZATION OF AN AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICE TO FACILITATE WH-QUESTION-ASKING BY A CHILD WITH AUTISM/PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY. 2001. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997274348.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • DEARDORFF, JOHN. "UTILIZATION OF AN AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICE TO FACILITATE WH-QUESTION-ASKING BY A CHILD WITH AUTISM/PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997274348

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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