SPTH341: Lecture 16 Communication Models

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SPTH341 Lecture 16 Communication Models

• Based on Erber (1996)

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Limitations of traditional rehabilitative models

• Historically aural rehabilitation has focused on
• adapting to new hearing aids
• listening effectively to amplified speech
• making maximum use of visible speech

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Linguistic Awareness

• A person can make assumptions based on
• situation context (e.g. conversations about
  airports)
• knowledge of a partners conversational style
  (e.g. use of colloquialisms and gestures)
• expected responses (e.g.. choice questions)

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Implications for therapy

• The major goal of communication therapy is the
  development of the client's meta-communication
  skills

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The communication partner

• Every conversation involves at least two people
• Communication partners may have
• careless articulation
• rapid speech rate
• fluctuating voice level
• accent or dialect
• use complex sentence forms
• oral/facial structure
• do not follow simple requests for clarification

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Conversational occurrences

• Clinic rooms (optimal for interaction)
• vs
• Real world

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• Noisy situations where communication is often
  difficult
• Quiet places where communication is easier

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• How to estimate the degree of reverberation in a
  room by looking at its contents.
• Poor
• Better
• Best

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• Speech characteristics that makes reception
  difficult.
• Difficult syntactic constructions.

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Speaker differences that affect intelligibility

• Hearing-impaired person
• Message structure or content
• Communication partner's speech
• Communication environment

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• What the communication partner says language
• How the communication partner says it speech

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• Potential for message reception.
• Ways to enhance visible cues.
• Complex Language.
• Sentence clarification strategies.
• What good communication partners have.