Laurence,
I cannot think of any direct work on infantilisation of
speech - but I think there are two linked areas. One of
these is the eternal child imagery used in the press and
other forms of representation and secondly there was a fair
bit of work done on informative speech in the sixties and
seventies I believe which has parallels with research done
on teacher questioning behaviour. Best of luck and searching
Jim
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:10:58 +1000 Laurence Bathurst
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> <FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param>At our facilitywhich serves persons with cerebral palsy, Lesch-Nyhan disease,
> and other neurodevelopmental disorders, we have been training medical
> students and other healthcare professionals-in-training to interact effectively
> with their patients who are nonverbal due to developmental disorders. In that
> process, we constantly observe the medical students adopting a high pitched
> tone of voice and child-like manner of speech even when the students are
> informed that their patients are normal or near normal in cognitive ability.<bigger><smaller>I'm
> interested in doing a series of studies, involving both voice analysis and
> measurement of implicit attitudes using the Implicit Association Test, to look
> at the degree to whichhealthcare professionals associate disability with child-
> like characteristics and the degree to which this association might be evidenced
> in their interactions with patients or prospective patients who have
> disabilities.<bigger><smaller>I'm sure there must be a literature out there on infantilization of
> persons with disabilities in social interactions, but I haven't been able to locate
> it using PsychInfo, Medline, or other databases (at least not with the keywords
> I've been using). Can anyone suggest a lead or two?<bigger><smaller>Thanks much,Ken
> RobeyMatheny Institute for Research in Developmental
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> Best regards
>
> Laurence Bathurst
> School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences
> Faculty of Health Sciences
> University of Sydney
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> Lidcombe NSW 2141
> Australia
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University of Exeter
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