Meuris Kristien, Maes Bea, Zink Inge
KU Leuven, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosciences, Experimental Otorhinolaryngology (ExpORL), Herestraat 49, Box 721, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
KU Leuven, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Parenting and Special Education, Vesaliusstraat 2, Box 3765, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Res Dev Disabil. 2014 Oct;35(10):2585-601. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.06.020. Epub 2014 Jul 10.
The evaluation of language and communication skills in adults who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in general and key word signing (KWS) in particular, can be an elaborate task. Besides being time-consuming and not very similar to natural communication, standard language tests often do not take AAC or KWS into account. Therefore, we developed a narrative task specifically for adults with intellectual disability (ID) who use KWS. The task was evaluated in a group of 40 adult KWS users. Outcome measures on the narrative task correlated significantly with measures of standard language and communication tests for verbal language, but not for use of manual signs. All narrative measures, for both verbal language and manual signing, correlated highly with similar measures from a conversation sample. The developed narrative task proved useful and valid to evaluate the language and communication skills of adults with ID taking into account both their verbal language and manual sign use.
评估一般使用辅助和替代沟通方式（AAC）尤其是关键词手语（KWS）的成年人的语言和沟通能力，可能是一项复杂的任务。除了耗时且与自然沟通不太相似外，标准语言测试通常未考虑AAC或KWS。因此，我们专门为使用KWS的成年智障人士开发了一项叙事任务。该任务在一组40名成年KWS使用者中进行了评估。叙事任务的结果指标与口语的标准语言和沟通测试指标显著相关，但与手语使用指标无关。对于口语和手语，所有叙事指标都与对话样本中的类似指标高度相关。事实证明，所开发的叙事任务在兼顾成年智障人士的口语和手语使用的情况下，对于评估他们的语言和沟通能力是有用且有效的。
