Open AccessThe communicative performance of a severely hearing-impaired adolescent
Author(s) -
Ann Russel
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
south african journal of communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.296
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2225-4765
pISSN - 0379-8046
DOI - 10.4102/sajcd.v28i1.348
Subject(s) - dyad , nonverbal communication , psychology , interpersonal communication , coding (social sciences) , subject (documents) , control (management) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , audiology , communication , computer science , medicine , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , library science
This study describes the communicative performance of a severely hearing-impaired adolescent.The experimenter taught the subject how to play Russian Backgammon. The subject conversed with, and afterwards taught his mother, speech therapist, and a peer how to play the game. Each dyad played the game once. Videotape recordings were made of each dyadic situation. The channels of communication, both verbal and nonverbal, used by each speaker, were determined. A relational communication coding scheme, involving the analysis of requests and subsequent responses, was applied to the data. Results indicate that the hearing-impaired adolescent, though not always able to hold a dominant position in a dyadic situation, was capable of expressing the same types of control as normal adults. Moreover, the types of control expressed varied as a function of each contextual setting. Whenever the subject did hold a dominant position, the combined verbal plus nonverbal channel was his predominant mode of communication. These findings suggest that a sociolinguistic approach provides important information regarding a hearing-impaired adolescent's communicative performance