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Brady, Nancy C.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
This study assessed communication initiation and repair behaviors of 28 adults with severe/profound mental retardation in a variety of settings. All subjects communicated through nonsymbolic gestures. All subjects initiated at least one communication act; all but three subjects repaired at least one communication act following a breakdown. Recasts…
Descriptors: Adults, Body Language, Communication Problems, Communication Skills
Shaw, Jeanne; Jamieson, Janet – ACEHI Journal/Revue ACEDA, 1995
Nine hours of videotape of an integrated eight-year-old deaf child of hearing parents, in social and instructional settings, were analyzed using a Vygotskian model. Analysis focused on: the frequency, amount, and kinds of interactions; the means of communication; the importance of context; the use of eye contact; and repair/avoidance of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Deafness

Kuroda, Yoshitaka – Japanese Journal of Special Education, 1987
Work with a mute, autistic, severely handicapped girl over five years (ages 7-11) is analyzed using developmental pragmatics. While she often used interactive acts leading to environmental consequences, she was almost never observed using any that led to a social consequence. She learned to point and gesture but not voluntarily. (Author/VW)
Descriptors: Autism, Body Language, Case Studies, Communication Problems
Friend, Margaret; Becker, Judith E. – Florida Educational Research and Development Council Research Bulletin, 1986
The report examines research on differences in the interpretations of discrepant and nondiscrepant messages by normal and emotionally disturbed children and reports on a study in which tone of voice and verbal content were discrepant in their affective meaning. A review of the research on discrepant messages, their delivery, interpretation, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Language, Communication Problems, Comprehension

Sonnenschein, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates whether first- and fourth-grade children vary their production of redundant messages (saying more than the minimal necessary to be informative) as a function of sharing common experience with a listener. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Communication Skills

Tzuriel, David; Caspi, Naomi – Journal of Special Education, 1992
This study, with 26 deaf and 26 pair-matched hearing preschool children, first assessed their cognitive modifiability using dynamic and static-convention instruments, and then compared the factorial pattern of the cognitive measures in both groups. Results are interpreted according to the Structural Cognitive Modifiability and Mediated Learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Tests
Hirsch, Kenneth William; Kimbrough, Kenneth Laslie – 1983
A study was conducted in September 1981 of factors which influence the process of communication between clients and staff at six high-capacity computer facilities in the Sacramento, California, metropolitan area. These included two large government organizations, a medium-sized corporation, two bibliographic database settings, and a computer…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Research, Data Processing, Human Relations
Katz, Mary Maxwell; And Others – 1987
Teacher isolation is a significant problem in the science teaching profession. Traditional inservice solutions are often plagued by logistical difficulties or occur too infrequently to build ongoing teacher networks. Educational Technology Center (ETC) researchers reasoned that computer-based conferencing might promote collegial exchange among…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, Communication Problems, Communication Research