<i>The Best Birthday Party Ever</i> (review)

This paper examines how and by whom tellings with two young children are triggered at ages 23, 36 and 42 months. The data for the investigation is derived from a larger Australian English corpus of over 50 hours of interactions in the home, although one of the children is a bilingual Italian/ English-speaking child. The data is derived from two parent/child dyads, and in the case of the child aged 42 months, a triadic interaction between a mother, her own child and a second child. Using the micro-analytic methods of conversation analysis, the study analyses five samples of tellings. The first two describe how a child, Cassandra, aged 23 months, is invited to recount events of her day by her parents. The trigger for these tellings is the social activity of sharing everyday routine events. The next two samples focus on Rosie at 36 months who is also invited to share a telling by her parent about a birthday party celebration and one about a neighbourhood cat, Claude. The first telling is triggered by an object, a balloon from a birthday party from the day before, while the second is triggered by play involving the character of a cat, initially derived from a favourite story, Hairy Maclary. In the final sample, Cassandra, aged 42 months, initiates a telling about an experience at her grandmother’s which is trigged by a picture in a book. The analyses in each case reveal the interactional issues that arise in the action of telling and how these are dealt with by all participants. By focusing on the three ages, key features in the children’s participation in storytelling are uncovered.

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Glenn Sonnedecker 100th Birthday Party

Pharmacy in History ◽

10.26506/pharmhist.59.4.0148 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 59 (4) ◽

pp. 148

Keyword(s):

100Th Birthday ◽

Birthday Party

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Abigail's Birthday Party, and: Fresh Start: Staining the Pool Deck, and: Why I Quit

Prairie Schooner ◽

10.1353/psg.2007.0009 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 80 (4) ◽

pp. 114-118

Author(s):

Daniel Donaghy

Keyword(s):

Fresh Start ◽

Birthday Party

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Anniversary Address

The Antiquaries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0003581500070244 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 70 (1) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

R. M. Robbins

Keyword(s):

Birthday Party ◽

Royal Charter

At Our Anniversary Meeting, or birthday party, this venerable Society celebrates St George's Day on the nearest convenient date for the 239th time since its royal charter was granted by Letters Patent in November 1751. We meet, after the formal but not unimportant business has been disposed of, to do three things: to witness and applaud the presentation of medals in recognition of valuable services to archaeology; to pass in quick review some of the outstanding features of the Society's year just past; and to allow the President to make observations on some more general matter that he thinks deserves the attention of the Fellowship. First, then, to our medallists.

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Data Collection

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ◽

10.1044/1058-0360.0303.55 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 55-66 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Lesley B. Olswang ◽

Barbara Bain

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Data Collection ◽

Treatment Efficacy ◽

Qualitative Information ◽

Treatment Progress ◽

Clinical Process ◽

Birthday Party ◽

Speech Language Pathologist ◽

Intuitive Decision Making ◽

Decision Making Model

For many of us, not having data concerning a client’s progress during treatment is tantamount to being unprepared for a lecture, or showing up at a birthday party without a present—totally unthinkable. This zealous position is based on the assumption that clinical decisions regarding treatment efficacy should be based on data. Data, in this case, refers to both quantitative and qualitative information that provides evidence for deciding the course of treatment. This is not to say that data can and should be collected on every aspect of the clinical process. Indeed, intuitive decision-making on the part of the speech-language pathologist is often warranted. But in general, a series of decisions regarding whether or not treatment is working, can and should be based on data. This article examines the ways in which we can measure treatment progress, and provides guidelines for the reader in the use of a data-based, decision-making model.

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