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(2016)Background and aims. The environment has a significant influence on a child's language acquisition. The interaction styles of the adults in a child's everyday environment influence also on a child's possibilities to have an active role in interaction. If a child's language develops atypically, the role of adults' interaction styles is even more significant. Adults often seem to dominate the interaction in dyads of adults and young children. This kind of asymmetry seems to be more persistent when children have atypical language development. AAC is one way to provide children with language disorders a way to communicate more equally and thus learn a more active role in interaction. The purpose of this study is to examine the interaction between a child with delayed language development and his close adults. Also the study observes the experiences of the AAC use in everyday life by a brief interview. Methods. A 2 years 7 months old child, Leo, participated this study. Leo's language development was delayed. Leo had received speech therapy intervention concentrating on the AAC use. The data of the study consists of face-to-face interaction situations between Leo and his mother, and Leo and his kindergarten teacher. Interaction situations were videotaped. Additionally the mother and the kindergarten teacher were interviewed. The interaction situations were analysed by counting the number of turns of each participant. Within turns the communication moves, communicative functions and the communication modes were analysed. Results and discussion. The results revealed that Leo was an active interaction partner using various communicative functions and modes of communication. The interaction between both dyads was quite symmetric. Leo made even a bit more initiations than his mother. However, the kindergarten teacher had a bit more dominant role in the interaction, having a bit more turns and initiations than Leo. The results of this study does not entirely support the results of previous studies in which adults were dominating the interaction in dyads of adults and young children. The one-to-one interaction situations of this study supported well reciprocal communication. Also the adults encouraged Leo to take an active role in the interaction. As being a case study the results cannot be generalised. There are relative few studies examining interaction of Finnish adult-child-dyads. More research is needed to examine general features as well as individual variation of the interaction between a child and their close adults.
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(2016)This research examines the views and experiences regarding communication about personal crisis in work communities. The focus is both in the community as a whole as well as in the individual communicational relationships. The study centralizes around the perspective of the people who experienced the crisis. Theoretical frames are home-to-work spillover and social support. Spillover means the study of how different life spheres affect one another. Social support on the other hand is the study of how people try to help each other by e.g. expressing sympathy, giving advice or offering practical assistance. This is a phenomenological study. The data was collected via online survey during July and August 2015. The study had 40 respondents with different occupational background. Analyzing method was qualitative content analysis with additional support from the more quantitative content differentiation. The results address why the people who have experienced a personal crisis want to or does not want to discuss it with their work community, who they talk to and who they don't talk to, how people felt their community reacted to the situation, what kind of support did they experience, how was the community a burden during the crisis and what kind of positive or negative views and experiences arose from the communicational relationships. One of the main results of the study is that people who have experienced a personal crisis hope that their work community expresses sympathy, understanding about their situation and offers practical support in order to reduce their work load. How people wish sympathy and understanding should be manifested differs greatly. Some hope to receive active empathy while others wish that co-workers wouldn't speak about the situation at all. Six narratives are presented based on the answers. They summarize how different people wish their work community would relate to the crisis, how they talk about the crisis themselves and how they think others react to their situation. Finally, propositions are given to organizations and work communities that wish to be prepared for the personal crisis among their members.
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