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Peer reviewedWeistuch, Lucille; And Others – Journal of Early Intervention, 1991
This article describes the Language Interaction Intervention Program (LIIP) used in preschool classes for handicapped children in central New Jersey. Covered are the LIIP curriculum rationale, the LIIP model, the original evaluation study, and a replication study showing the program was effectively replicated with mothers appropriately changing…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Acquisition
Lougeay-Mottinger, Janice; And Others – 1991
This study examined the effect of various intervention contexts on the ability of young children (ages 3 and 4 years) with language impairments to effectively direct communications to a partner and to vary communicative intentions. The six children in the study were either nonverbal or in the early stages of developing verbal communication and all…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Effect, Early Intervention, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedCole, Elizabeth B. – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 1994
This article presents ideas to encourage speech and language in infants and toddlers with hearing impairments. Ways to embellish interactions in daily life to make speech/language aspects more salient are suggested, with a 2-minute example of such an interaction between a mother and her 13-month-old hearing-impaired daughter. (DB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Hearing Impairments, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedStremel-Campbell, Kathleen; Rowland, Charity – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1987
Suggestions for narrowing the discrepancy between the knowledge base of early communication development and the implementation of effective communication interventions for severely handicapped infants and young children are offered including strategies for facilitating emerging language development, increasing positive interactions with infants,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Infants, Inservice Teacher Education, Interaction Process Analysis
Download full textSiegel-Causey, Ellin, Ed.; Guess, Doug, Ed. – 1988
The purpose of this manual, the culmination of a graduate project begun at the University of Kansas, is to assist individuals with severe, multiple disabilities and their service providers in learning to utilize nonsymbolic behaviors in an expanded, facilitative manner that leads to more consistent and predictable communication functioning. The…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication Skills, Eye Contact, Facial Expressions
Musselman, Carol; Hambleton, Don – ACEHI Journal, 1990
Five teachers using a conversational approach to language teaching with hearing-impaired students were studied. Teachers tended to exert a high level of conversational control, though conversational control decreased over time. The children (ages 4-10) exhibited language growth in their imitations and responses but not in spontaneous utterances.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Deafness, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedMacDonald, James D.; Carroll, Jennifer Y. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1992
A model for assessing the interactive sources of communication development in young children is proposed, focusing on the reciprocal behaviors of both adults and children. The model integrates theoretical and empirical findings and is designed for parallel diagnostic and treatment purposes in five areas: social play, turn taking, nonverbal…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Ecological Factors, Educational Diagnosis
