AMANDA HYNAN FINAL THESIS PDF

3.6.3.1. Transcription
Each interview was transcribed verbatim; two anonymised transcripts can be seen in
Appendices M and N. The transcripts have been prepared using the guidelines given
by von Tetzchner and Basil (2011) for the notation of conversations with AAC.
Manual signs are capitalised e.g. FRIEND (Makaton sign), naturally spoken words are
italicised e.g. naturally spoken speech and machine-produced digitized or synthesized
speech (aided speech) e.g. “words and sentences spoken by a machine”. Non-verbal
gestures are represented by the indicated meaning in quotation marks with an
description of the corresponding non-verbal gesture given in brackets e.g. ‘no’
(shakes head). Responses that have been spelt by individually indicating letters on an
alphabet board are indicated in the following manner e,g, s-p-e-l-l-e-d w-o-r-d-s .
Alphabet boards also have high frequency whole works available and these are
represented by an underline e.g. yes
3.6.3.2. Concurrent data collection and analysis
A fundamental characteristic of grounded theory is that analysis begins as soon as the
data collection begins (Birks & Mills, 2011). Interview data was concurrently
collected and analysed and subsequent interviews focused on emerging theoretical
categories. Figure B offers a schematic representation of the data collection occasions
(explaining who was seen, what equipment was used, and communication partner
information) to illustrate how the concurrent data collection and analysis was carried
out.
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