Aphasia - Hint and Guess

Question 1

Aphasia

Answer 1

• Language impairment often caused by brain damage from a stroke resulting in problems regarding language production and comprehension
• Fluent: WFD and comprehension problems
• non fluent: inability to speak grammatically

Question 2

General aphasia

Answer 2

• Long and often abandoned, SISR preferred then SIOR (B)
• Use a range of verbal and nonverbal resources to construct turns
• CP may adapt their turns in a distinct way that interrupts the sequence e.g. test questions

Question 3

H&G sequence (L&K) - stage 1

Answer 3

1. SWA signals presence of a problem (often by making overt comment about having a WFD)
   - May conduct solitary search first
   - Evident when engaged in search for a long time
   - Manifest in sound stretches/pausing/search questions
   - May withdraw gaze/look down to the floor
   - Does it succeed?

Question 4

H&G, stage 2

Answer 4

2. The SWA appeals to their CP for help
   - Can be invited or invites themselves
   - Collaborative sequences occur when it is clear to CP that there is WFD
   - H&G sequences launched when aphasic speaker shifts orientation to CP

Question 5

H&G, stage 3

Answer 5

3. The SWA offers a ‘hint’ and the CP offers a ‘guess’/candidate resolution/form of OR
   - Can be multiple H&G
   - How many attempts?
   - Can reject but display willingness to continue

Question 6

H&G, stage 4

Answer 6

4. Confirmation stage occurs, often with multiple acknowledgment tokens
   - may increase volume/stretch

Question 7

General findings

Answer 7

• Pauses/looking to distance/fillers signal WFD (L&K)
• Preference for SR before launching H&G
• Can look to CP when need help/CP may invite themselves

Question 8

Multi-modal

Answer 8

• Gesture contributes to an embodied complex of action (GW)
• Increase in volume = change in heightened expression?
• Extend H&G tend to appear in positions where aphasic speaker introduces new topic/subtopic and SWA may have trouble initiating new topic