Browsing by Subject "kielelliset häiriöt"

Aims: Repair is one the three structures that organizes conversation. Repair organization is used for solving problems in speaking, hearing and understanding in conversation. Self-repair is initiated by the person who has produced the trouble source turn. Language deficits affect person's possibilities to communicate with speech. Different kinds of language deficits affect in different ways to person's possibilities to participate in conversation and to be understood. Self-repair is a way to maintain intersubjectivity in conversation. If one of the participants in conversation can't self-repair his speech because of the language deficit, the intersubjectivity between the participants might be endangered. The aim of this study is to describe self-repairs made by a 4-year-old boy and how his language deficits affect on his self-repairs. Methods: The main approach to this study was conversation analytic. Conversation analysis is a qualitative method. It is used for finding recurrent structures in conversation. The study examined self-repairs made by a 4-year-old boy who has deficits in speech understanding, naming and inflection. The material for the study was from speech therapy sessions. Speech therapy was held 20 times and a partner in the conversations was a logopedics student. The study observes three types of situations in speech therapy. The conversation topics were limited in different ways. Results & Conclusions: The participant made lots of fluent self-repairs despite his language deficits. He also made self-repairs when they were started by the other. The deficits of speech understanding and naming caused self-repairs. The deficits of naming caused multiple self-repairs one after the other. To the inflection the participant made just few self-repairs. The participant had not acquired the language skills of inflection at the time.