Viewing Variations in Language Development: The Communication Play Protocol

Adamson, Lauren B.; Bakeman, Roger

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“…Following the play observations which included the hiding game, false belief tasks were administered. For more details regarding the play observations and procedures see Adamson and Bakeman (2000).…”

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The Developmental Progression of Understanding of Mind during a Hiding Game

2011

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In this longitudinal study, 52 typically developing preschoolers engaged in a hiding game with their mothers when children were 42-, 54-, and 66-months old. Children's understanding of mind, positive affect, and engagement with the task were rated, and mothers' utterances were coded for role and content. Analyses confirmed that some facets of children's understanding of mind developed sequentially; specifically, they expressed an understanding of knowledge access before an understanding of deception and false beliefs, and expressed an understanding of deception before an understanding of false beliefs. Children's understanding of mind increased across visits and positively correlated with false belief task performance. Results suggest that mothers may tailor the content of their utterances to the child's growing expertise, but the role of mothers' utterances did not change. Observing preschoolers engaged in a playful hiding game revealed that children's understanding of mind not only increased with age but also developed sequentially.

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2011

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“…Observational conditions. Mothers and toddlers were observed using the communication play protocol (Adamson & Bakeman, 1999). This protocol provides a framework for observing how the child is communicating in a series of semistructured conditions.…”

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Development of Displaced Speech in Early Mother–Child Conversations

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2006

Child Development

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This study documents the development of symbolic, spatial, and temporal displacement of toddler's speech. Fifty-six children and their mothers were observed longitudinally 5 times from 18 to 30 months of age during a staged communication play while they engaged in scenes that encouraged interacting, requesting, and commenting and scenes that explicitly focused on the past and the future. Reliably coded transcripts revealed that toddlers highlighted symbols at a high and stable rate and that over time they became less focused on the here and now and more focused on internal states. The greatest expansion was into the near future. Only in scenes designed to discuss the past and future did conversations turn to the past and expand spatially beyond here.

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“…Thus it was with gratitude and not a small bit of trepidation that we readily agreed when Gail Van Tatenhove asked us to write a “contemporary version” of our “historical article,” Viewing Variations in Language Development, The Communication Play Protocol , which appeared in the May 1999 issue of the SIG 12 newsletter. Our aim there was to describe a new semi-naturalistic, lab-based observational procedure, the Communication Play Protocol (CPP; Adamson & Bakeman, 1999) that produces a “Play” rich with scenes of parent-child interactions. Often encountered in our literature are procedures for observing interactions that ask a parent to “play as usual” with objects (e.g., “free play” in Bakeman & Adamson, 1984; the “three bags task” in Hirsh-Pasek et al, 2015).…”

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“…The essence of the CPP—and what differentiates it from other procedures—is the CPP’s extended use of the simple metaphor of a play. As we explained in our previous note (Adamson & Bakeman, 1999): …We use this metaphor liberally as we tell a caregiver verbally and in writing what it is that we want her to do. Our main image is that her child will “star” in “a play” whose major theme is current ways of communicating.…”

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“…Pausing to compose a contemporary version of our earlier comments about the Communication Play Protocol has reinforced our conviction that it is a semi-naturalistic data collection procedure that “can provide us, both as researchers and clinicians, a view of the rich variation in early communicative development” (Adamson & Bakeman, 1999, p. 4). We are especially heartened that it can help us capture established patterns of a child’s interaction with a caregiver who is a critical partner in language acquisition.…”

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The Communication Play Protocol: Capturing Variations in Language Development

Adamson

Bakeman

2016

Perspect ASHA SIGs

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The Communication Play Protocol (CPP) is a semi-naturalistic, lab-based observational procedure that showcases parent-child interactions. This article reflects on how the CPP has matured since we described it over 25 years ago in the May 1999 issue of Perspectives. We emphasize how the CPP has provided us with a stable frame to observe both typically developing children and children with developmental challenges including autism spectrum disorder as they communicate with caregivers in a range of contexts. We also describe three versions of the CPP that have been designed to address different research questions and several methods including engagement state coding and rating items that have been used to extract data from video records of the CPP. We conclude that the CPP can provide both researchers and clinicians with a valuable way to systematically capture variations in language development.

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Viewing Variations in Language Development: The Communication Play Protocol

Cited by 8 publications

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The Developmental Progression of Understanding of Mind during a Hiding Game

The Developmental Progression of Understanding of Mind during a Hiding Game

Development of Displaced Speech in Early Mother–Child Conversations

The Communication Play Protocol: Capturing Variations in Language Development

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