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Sam-po Law - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Linguistic Communication measure for monitoring changes in Chinese aphasic narrative production
    Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 2009
    Co-Authors: Anthony Pak Hin Kong, Sam-po Law
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    This study investigated the usefulness of the Cantonese Linguistic Communication Measure (CLCM) in monitoring changes of narrative production in five Chinese adults with aphasia in the period of spontaneous recovery (SR group) and four who underwent anomia therapies (Tx group). Language samples elicited from a picture description task were collected among SR participants at regular intervals within the first 6 months post-onset and among Tx participants before and after treatment. Results showed that the CLCM indices could reflect changes of language production in these individuals over time. The changes of index values were consistent with the expectations of performance during early stages after stroke for the SR participants and treatment outcomes of the Tx participants. While the CLCM has previously been shown to be useful in measuring aphasic narratives on a single occasion, this study has provided further evidence of its capability to monitor changes of language production over time.

  • External validation of the Cantonese Linguistic Communication measure
    Brain and Language, 2005
    Co-Authors: Anthony Pak Hin Kong, Sam-po Law
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  • A Cantonese Linguistic Communication Measure for Evaluating Aphasic Narrative Production: Normative and Preliminary Aphasic Data
    Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, 2004
    Co-Authors: Anthony Kong Pak-hin, Sam-po Law
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    This paper describes the use of a Cantonese Linguistic Communication measure (CLCM) to quantify narrative production of Cantonese aphasic speakers. Four new pictures containing local characteristics were developed, including revised pictures from the BDAE (Goodglass and Kaplan, 1993), WAB (Kertesz, 1982) and its Cantonese version (Yiu, 1992), and a picture depicting a Chinese restaurant. The development of pictorial stimuli was motivated by the lack of culturally appropriate pictures for eliciting speech from Cantonese speakers. The CLCM contains eight indices reflecting the amount, efficiency, and rate of information conveyed, the grammaticality and extent of elaboration of sentences produced, as well as the degree of error production and lexical diversity in the speech output. Normative data from 30 native Cantonese speakers were collected. Results of preliminary pathological data from 10 Cantonese aphasic patients revealed significant differences between normal and aphasic speakers on most of the indices.

  • A Cantonese Linguistic Communication measure
    Asia Pacific Journal of Speech Language and Hearing, 2003
    Co-Authors: Anthony Kong Pak-hin, Sam-po Law
    Abstract:

    Abstract Although there has been a longstanding interest in English aphasic speech, studies of Cantonese aphasic narratives have only emerged recently. This paper presents a Cantonese Linguistic Communication measure (henceforth, CLCM), which is a convenient measure for analysing Cantonese aphasic narratives. Taking into consideration the characteristics of the Cantonese grammar, the lexical diversity, Communication efficiency, grammaticality and elaborateness of Cantonese aphasic speech are quantified. Sixteen Cantonese-speaking aphasic patients and 16 control subjects were recruited to carry out a picture description task. The findings indicated that most indices could distinguish between normal and aphasic speakers. Moreover, two indices indicating the length of the narrative and the rate of information conveyed could further discriminilte fluent from non-fluent aphasics. Given the simplicity of index computation, the CLCM may render speech therapists in general clinical settings an objective, quick an...

Maryanne Syrmis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Pre-Linguistic Communication skill development in an infant with a diagnosis of galactosaemia
    Developmental neurorehabilitation, 2013
    Co-Authors: Fiona M. Lewis, David Coman, Sarah Kilcoyne, Bruce E. Murdoch, Maryanne Syrmis
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    Background: Neonatal screening for galactosaemia (GAL) identifies the condition early, but subsequent biomedical and genetic testing fails to identify which subgroup of infants with GAL are at most risk of the language disorders associated with the condition. This study aims to present preliminary data on an infant with GAL based on assessment of pre-Linguistic Communication behaviours known to underpin language development.Methods: This single case-control study profiles the pre-Linguistic skills of a 13-month-old infant with GAL. The Index Infant's performance was descriptively compared to that of a typically developing, suitably matched control infant.Results: The Index Infant was identified as presenting with clinically significant delays on 9 of the 11 pre-Linguistic skills assessed.Discussion and Conclusion: The early identification of risk of developmental language difficulties in the Index Infant allows for the implementation of early intervention using the infant's parents as facilitators of lang...

  • Impaired language abilities and pre-Linguistic Communication skills in a child with a diagnosis of galactosaemia
    Early Child Development and Care, 2013
    Co-Authors: Fiona M. Lewis, David Coman, Maryanne Syrmis, Sarah Kilcoyne, Bruce E. Murdoch
    Abstract:

    Variable language outcomes have been reported in children with the metabolic disorder galactosaemia (GAL), but these outcomes do not appear to be related to the severity of symptoms in the neonatal period, compliance with the non-dairy diet, or IQ. Currently, there is no means by which at-risk children with GAL can be identified early to initiate proactive language support. This case–control study aimed to provide preliminary data on pre-Linguistic Communication skills and current language skill performance in a male school-aged child with the disorder. Although the child's cognitive skills were in the average range, he presented with significantly reduced auditory comprehension skills and reduced skills across a number of pre-Linguistic behaviours known to predict subsequent language skill development. The findings suggest that further investigation of early-developing pre-Linguistic Communication skills in children with GAL is warranted, in particular, prospective monitoring of emergent pre-Linguistic c...

Anthony Pak Hin Kong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Roland Holten - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The emergence of shared understanding: applying functional pragmatics to study the requirements development process
    Information Systems Journal, 2012
    Co-Authors: Marianne Corvera Charaf, Roland Holten, Christoph Rosenkranz
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    While the importance of social interactions and especially Communication is generally acknowledged in information systems development and requirements development, there are few studies that investigate Communication. Departing from the conceptualisation of information systems development as a language development and formalisation process, we focus on Linguistic Communication and the development of language-based shared understanding of requirements. We investigate and analyse the semantic alignment process by which stakeholders achieve shared understanding in requirements development. We adopt Functional Pragmatics and examine how Linguistic Communication is shaped and regulated during requirements development in an actual project. By developing a pattern for semantic alignment and its use as an analytical lens, we enable a systematic and insightful understanding of Communication in information systems development.

  • Designing viable social systems: The role of Linguistic Communication for self‐organization
    Kybernetes, 2011
    Co-Authors: Roland Holten, Christoph Rosenkranz
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    Purpose – The viable system model (VSM) provides a way to understand Communication structures in an organization. It gives us a means to visualize and analyze information channels relating the functions in an enterprise, a corporation, or any other kind of organization. At the heart of the VSM is the application of Ashby's law of requisite variety. The resulting models help to analyze and discuss what variety attenuation of operations and what variety amplification of management can establish requisite variety. Many studies and applications show that the complexity management laws described by Ashby and Beer hold, and that managerial, operational and environmental varieties tend to equate. The amplifiers and attenuators, however, should be designed to do so with minimum damage to people and to cost. The purpose of this paper is to determine to what extent the design of amplifiers and attenuators is possible if these are realized based on Linguistic Communication, and whether this design can be automated i...

Fiona M. Lewis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Pre-Linguistic Communication skill development in an infant with a diagnosis of galactosaemia
    Developmental neurorehabilitation, 2013
    Co-Authors: Fiona M. Lewis, David Coman, Sarah Kilcoyne, Bruce E. Murdoch, Maryanne Syrmis
    Abstract:

    Background: Neonatal screening for galactosaemia (GAL) identifies the condition early, but subsequent biomedical and genetic testing fails to identify which subgroup of infants with GAL are at most risk of the language disorders associated with the condition. This study aims to present preliminary data on an infant with GAL based on assessment of pre-Linguistic Communication behaviours known to underpin language development.Methods: This single case-control study profiles the pre-Linguistic skills of a 13-month-old infant with GAL. The Index Infant's performance was descriptively compared to that of a typically developing, suitably matched control infant.Results: The Index Infant was identified as presenting with clinically significant delays on 9 of the 11 pre-Linguistic skills assessed.Discussion and Conclusion: The early identification of risk of developmental language difficulties in the Index Infant allows for the implementation of early intervention using the infant's parents as facilitators of lang...

  • Impaired language abilities and pre-Linguistic Communication skills in a child with a diagnosis of galactosaemia
    Early Child Development and Care, 2013
    Co-Authors: Fiona M. Lewis, David Coman, Maryanne Syrmis, Sarah Kilcoyne, Bruce E. Murdoch
    Abstract:

    Variable language outcomes have been reported in children with the metabolic disorder galactosaemia (GAL), but these outcomes do not appear to be related to the severity of symptoms in the neonatal period, compliance with the non-dairy diet, or IQ. Currently, there is no means by which at-risk children with GAL can be identified early to initiate proactive language support. This case–control study aimed to provide preliminary data on pre-Linguistic Communication skills and current language skill performance in a male school-aged child with the disorder. Although the child's cognitive skills were in the average range, he presented with significantly reduced auditory comprehension skills and reduced skills across a number of pre-Linguistic behaviours known to predict subsequent language skill development. The findings suggest that further investigation of early-developing pre-Linguistic Communication skills in children with GAL is warranted, in particular, prospective monitoring of emergent pre-Linguistic c...