Effect of pre-utterance pause length on perceptions of communicative competence in AAC-aided social conversations

AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 222-234

  Todman, John ^a   Rzepecka, Halina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aided conversation; Communicative competence; Conversational rate; Pause length; Social conversation; Social effectiveness; Stored utterances; Voice output communication aid (VOCA)

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AIDED SOCIAL CONVERSATIONS; AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE; PRE UTTERANCE PAUSE LENGTH; SOCIAL EFFECTIVENESS; STORED UTTERANCES; VOICE OUTPUT COMMUNICATION AID;

COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR NONVOCAL PERSONS;

EID: 1842431420     PISSN: 07434618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07434610310001605810     Document Type: Article

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