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ACTION
Clinically, the research interventions have pursued goals to increase Professor Chioffi’s ability to communicate efficiently and effectively; minimize communication breakdowns; increase the level of student engagement in classroom discussion; and increase student mastery of content and promote use of multimodal communication tools by all interactants and not only Professor Chioffi. Specific interventions have included the use of classroom layout and spatial arrangement for enhancing multimodal techniques and strategies using existing low and high technologies options and the development of compensatory tools for specific issues (i.e., “spelling-dictionaries”).
Recognition of the persuasive use of both linguistic and visual forms of metaphor and metonymy have led to the development of explicit lectures and class exercies on these topics within the classroom contributing to higher levels of student engagement in critiques and discussions; higher quality of student work and, per Mr Chioffi, a subjective report of less effortful, more fluent verbal output following the metaphor and metonymy lectures. Potential for developing interdisciplinary approaches to design-based interventions (e.g., disability focused, conceptually designed-oriented subspecialty within the expanding field of graphic design and its visual languages). An illustrative moment which highlights the potential in this research is found in the following observation summarized below. The communication efforts of many persons with speech disabilities often fail unknown due to the unrelenting current of typical conversation where spoken language is privileged— and the frequent social stigma of interacting with persons of disabilities. Analogous to the theoretical physicist attempting to prove the existence of a short-lived, unstable subatomic particle, our efforts to “design in disability” through multimodal communication tools included having persons both with and without speech disabilities engage in multimodal conversations around artifacts which we designed and implemented in the course of our research.
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VISUALIZATIONS
Metaphor, Metonymy and Visual Multimodally Mediated Interactions
A virtual peer-reviewed presentation on current research of the modality project {dot} design for the 14th International Conference on the Arts in Society at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, in Lisbon, Portugal. 19–21 June 2019. |