Attuning: a communication process between people with severe and profound intellectual disability and their interaction partners.
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Griffiths C.Smith M,M., Attuning: a communication process between people with severe and profound intellectual disability and their interaction partners., Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities., 29, 2016, 124 - 138Download Item:
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People with severe and profound intellectual
disability typically demonstrate a limited ability to
communicate effectively. Most of their communications
are non-verbal, often idiosyncratic and ambiguous. This
article aims to identify the process that regulates
communications of this group of people with others and
to describe the methodological approach that was used
to achieve this.
In this qualitative study, two
dyads consisting of a person with severe or profound
intellectual and multiple disability and a teacher or
carer were filmed as they engaged in school-based
activities. Two 1-hour videotapes were transcribed and
analysed using grounded theory.
Attuning was identified within the theory
proposed here as a central process that calibrates and
regulates communication.
Attuning is conceptualized as a bidirectional,
dyadic communication process. Understanding this
process may support more effective communication
between people with severe or profound intellectual
and multiple disability and their interaction partners.
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Author: Griffiths, Colin; Smith, Martine
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