Symbol Use

2021 ◽  
pp. 4712-4713
Author(s):  
Anne Snow
Keyword(s):  
Symbol Use

The Effects of an Aided Augmentative System on Communication and Speech in a Preschool Child with Developmental Delay: A Case Study

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Mark Carter
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Developmental Delay ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Lower Proportion ◽  
Graphic Symbol ◽  
Symbol Use ◽  
Alternating Treatment Design ◽  
Treatment Design ◽  
Sustained Increase

The effect of an aided graphic augmentative communication system on communication and speech in a 4‐year 7‐month‐old child with developmental delay was evaluated in this case study. An alternating treatment design was used across 2 mealtime settings (morning tea and lunch) over a 6‐week period with counterbalancing of aided and unaided conditions. Once graphic symbol use emerged, there were slightly higher levels of unprompted communication and requests in the aided condition and a lower proportion of acts contained nonsymbolic communication. There was also a higher number of different words + symbols used in the aided condition. The introduction of the graphic symbols did not appear to have detrimental effects on speech but there was no evidence of sustained increase in frequency of speech or spoken vocabulary in the aided condition. Substantial increases were noted in the number of unprompted communicative turns and range of total vocabulary over the course of the study in both conditions. The need for further research on the effects of AAC on speech and communication in preschool children is highlighted.

Using Iconicity to Evaluate Symbol Use

2006 ◽  
pp. 874-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gareth Evans ◽  
Lisa Bowick ◽  
Marianne Johnson ◽  
Paul Blenkhorn
Keyword(s):  
Symbol Use

Influence of graphic symbol use on reading comprehension

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Rankin ◽  
Kerri Harwood ◽  
Pat Mirenda
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Graphic Symbol ◽  
Symbol Use

Why semiotics, why poetry?

Semiotica ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (207) ◽  
pp. 443-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry J. Prewitt
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Symbol Use

AbstractGiambattista Vico’s philosophy foresaw a very postmodern sense of language, first as the underlying logical capacity for what Peirce called the symbolic argument, and second as a communication system per se. And in our view, much of these higher sign processes, especially in the everyday symbol use of human communication, is based in metaphor, very much in Vico’s notion of the term. This essay explores the dynamics of sign ordinary process through poetry, referencing also Vico’s synthesis of understanding and creativity, and the connection of poetry to the earliest Western philosophies.

Symbol Use by Developmentally Disabled Children

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Atlas
Keyword(s):  
Expressive Language ◽  
Receptive Language ◽  
Developmentally Disabled ◽  
Vocabulary Test ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Peabody Picture Vocabulary ◽  
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test ◽  
Developmental Disturbance ◽  
Differential Identification ◽  
Symbol Use

13 children with a diagnosis of autism and 20 children with a diagnosis of childhood schizophrenia or a variant thereof were compared for skill in symbol use across modalities of expressive language, drawing, gesture, and play. The children were also given the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised as a measure of receptive comprehension. Analysis showed that the autistic children had poorer receptive language than the schizophrenic children. The autisic children were poorer in symbol use, as predicted, across all expressive modalities except play, when receptive language was treated as a covariate. Implications of these results for differential identification of children with severe developmental disturbance are discussed.

Rebus Symbol Communication Training with a Severely Handicapped Preschool Child

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula M. Pecyna
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Preschool Child ◽  
Communication Training ◽  
Developmental Level ◽  
Symbol System ◽  
New Words ◽  
Graphic Symbol ◽  
Severely Handicapped ◽  
Symbol Use

This case study describes the procedures used with and the results obtained for a preschool child with Down's syndrome who received communication training which incorporated Rebus symbols (a graphic symbol system). Training focused on comprehension and expressive use of Rebus symbols representing five new words and generalization of symbol use to the classroom. Results showed significant increases in the child's comprehension and expression Scores and in generalized symbol use. Further, the results indicated that symbol training may have facilitated development of the child's verbal expressive skills and that overall developmental level and level of communicative functioning are important factors to consider when planning a graphic symbol communication training program for a child.

Symbol Use in a Case of Elective Mutism

1993 ◽  
Vol 76 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1079-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Atlas
Keyword(s):  
Rare Disorder ◽  
Elective Mutism ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Symbol Use

A case of elective mutism in a 4-yr.-old girl is discussed with reference to symbol use in the phenomenology and treatment of this disorder. Findings are related to current controversies regarding the classification of this rare disorder, which may be associated with more severe psychotic-spectrum disorders of childhood.

scholarly journals Likeness-making and the evolution of cognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajo Greif
Keyword(s):  
Human Cognition ◽  
Lower Paleolithic ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Language And Thought ◽  
Geometric Patterns ◽  
Figurative Art ◽  
Tentative Evidence ◽  
Symbol Use ◽  
Early Human

AbstractPaleontological evidence suggests that human artefacts with intentional markings might have originated already in the Lower Paleolithic, up to 500.000 years ago and well before the advent of ‘behavioural modernity’. These markings apparently did not serve instrumental, tool-like functions, nor do they appear to be forms of figurative art. Instead, they display abstract geometric patterns that potentially testify to an emerging ability of symbol use. In a variation on Ian Hacking’s speculative account of the possible role of “likeness-making” in the evolution of human cognition and language, this essay explores the central role that the embodied processes of making and the collective practices of using such artefacts might have played in early human cognitive evolution. Two paradigmatic findings of Lower Paleolithic artefacts are discussed as tentative evidence of likenesses acting as material scaffolds in the emergence of symbolic reference-making. They might provide the link between basic abilities of mimesis and imitation and the development of modern language and thought.

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