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Butler, C.; Dykstra, J. – Center on Secondary Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2014
"Autism at-a-Glance" is designed for high school staff members supporting students on the autism spectrum, as well as family members of adolescents on the autism spectrum. This issue focuses on understanding and improving the communication skills of adolescents on the autism spectrum. The content specifically targets the needs of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Communication Skills
Butler, C.; Dykstra, J. – Center on Secondary Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2014
"Autism at-a-Glance" is designed for high school staff members supporting students on the autism spectrum, as well as family members of adolescents on the autism spectrum. This issue was designed to support high school staff and family members in understanding and improving the communication skills of adolescents on the autism spectrum.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Baird, Leonard L. – 1983
A review of communication models and research reveals four areas of communications skill: listening, empathy, non-verbal communication, and expressive abilities. Models of listening behavior suggest that, rather than being a passive activity, listening involves sorting stimuli and encoding messages, analyzing listener needs, and assessing speaker…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Empathy, Expressive Language
Salk Inst. for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA. – 1987
The manual teaches SignFont, a written form of sign language. Following a brief introduction, the first of three major sections describes the SignFont alphabet, structured according to the parts of every sign that is written (handshape, action area, location, movement). The second section discusses in greater detail how the SignFont characters are…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Expressive Language, Language

Rubin, Donald L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
Differences and similarities between oral and written communication as applied to writing instruction are discussed with examples of divergent oral and written styles among speakers of nonstandard dialects, code switching between speech and writing, convergence and divergence in the development of writing skills, and the role of talking in writing…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language, Oral Language

Schwartz, Ellen R.; Solot, Cynthia B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1980
The paper examines the need to analyze free expression as part of an overall expressive language evaluation in school aged children. Seven language characteristics are identified which may help in recognizing disorders of self-expression. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language
Kaczmarek, Louise A. – Journal of the Division for Early Childhood, 1982
The article considers how three types of language skills (receptive, functional expressive, and descriptive expressive) can be integrated into typical gross and fine motor activities for language delayed preschoolers. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps

Zeece, Pauline Davey; Wolda, Mary K. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1995
This article discusses the use of sign language to facilitate language development of children with developmental disabilities mainstreamed into the early childhood setting. It discusses the benefits of using sign language, presents a rationale for its use, and provides instructional guidelines and resources. (JDD)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Developmental Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Expressive Language
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Special Education. – 1982
The handbook, intended for use as a guide for special education teachers, presents an overview of language arts and communication skills. Instructional considerations and teaching ideas (objectives and activities) are presented for three major types of skills: (1) receptive language arts (listening skills, reading, phonics, sight vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language
Luetke-Stahlman, Barbara – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1987
Games which help hearing-impaired students develop language skills include the barrier game (students help others to arrange items in the same order as theirs); hiding game (students determine objects' hiding places by asking questions); describing game (students describe objects as others draw them); and telephone game (a message is passed…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language
Jaroma, Marjatta; And Others – 1990
The study assessed the use of Blissymbols in the spoken and signed language development of 10 school-aged (mean age 11.5 years) children with developmental dysphasia of whom four also were mildly retarded. The students' expressive abilities in signed and spoken words were initially assessed before the Bliss teaching began, and then again after 1…
Descriptors: Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Elementary Education
Proctor, Adele – 1983
This guide was prepared to facilitate the practitioner's selection of formal tests for evaluating communicative behavior in clinical infant populations during the first year of life. Clinical instruments with particular emphasis on communication and emerging language and speech abilities were identified in terms of publishers' recommended…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Guidelines

Whitehead, Brenda H.; Barefoot, Sidney M. – Volta Review, 1992
This paper deals with the specific problems of the adolescent and adult hearing-impaired individual who wishes to improve and develop his or her expressive speech ability. Considered are issues critical to the learning process, intervention strategies for improving speech production, and speech production as one part of communication competency.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Communication Skills, Expressive Language

Andrews, Moya L.; Summers, Anne C. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1993
Voice programing for preschool children with communication disabilities is discussed, including suggestions for enriching the child's auditory environment, selecting target goals, and providing consistency of target presentations by caregivers. Sample vocal awareness and production goals and strategies are offered. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Expressive Language

Paul, Rhea – Topics in Language Disorders, 1991
A portrait is presented of the toddler with slow expressive language development (SELD), based on research examining the health history; cognitive, communicative, and adaptive skills; behavior; and phonology of 30 toddlers with SELD and 30 nondisabled toddlers. The paper offers a review of research on the outcomes of SELD, and explores…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Expressive Language