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Theory-Driven AAC Practices With Adults Who Use Utterance-Based Systems: The Case of Conversational Rule Violations

School of Family Studies and Human Services, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS

Jan Bedrosian

Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI

Kathy McCoy

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

The purpose of this paper is to explore the pragmatic issue of when to use pre-constructed utterances by discussing a research project investigating messages that fail to meet either conventional standards of contextual appropriateness or timing. The use of pragmatic theory to systematically examine pre-constructed messages will be discussed, along with the outcomes of using messages that do not seem to follow pragmatic rules. The development of a hierarchy of types of rule violations will be described and the clinical implications of the hierarchy will be explored.