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Peer reviewedBanbury, Mary M.; Hebert, Constance R. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1992
This article is intended to help teachers understand nonverbal signals used by students and explains proxemics, a person's use and perception of space, and kinesics, a person's facial and body cures. Teachers are encouraged to evaluate their own nonverbal communication styles. Principles are illustrated with scenarios of students with…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication Skills, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textStillman, Robert; Battle, Christy – 1987
Interactions between teachers and multiply disabled students were videotaped, and procedures were developed to analyze the interactions, in order to assist the teachers in evaluating the relationship between their own and their student's communicative behavior. Coding categories were prepared to identify characteristics of the student's…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Multiple Disabilities, Nonverbal Communication
Stillman, Robert; Battle, Christy – 1987
One hundred interactions involving 4,231 communicative acts between classroom personnel and multiply disabled students were videotaped. The resulting data were coded and analyzed, and showed that: (1) conventional communicative forms (e.g., speech, manual signs, conventional nonverbal expressions) were selected to convey information to students…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Communication Skills, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Communication
Siegel-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
Peer reviewedGurley-Dilger, 'Laine – Science Teacher, 1986
Describes an activity in which students observe pairs of students engaged in conversation. Observations of "body language" are made, shifts in stance, and duration of stance. Discusses the application of this type of study to other species. (TW)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Body Language, Ethology, Eye Contact
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
