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Eales, Martin J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1993
Analysis of conversations of 15 adults with autism and 17 with developmental receptive language disorders in childhood indicated that the autistic adults showed greater pragmatic impairment because of their greater difficulty in forming context-relevant communicative intentions. Pragmatic impairments arising from failures in translating intentions…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Children, Communication Skills
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Abbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997
Noncomprehension signaling by 16 school-age children with mild mental retardation was compared with performance of 16 typically developing children matched for nonverbal mental age. Message type and speaker were manipulated in a direction-following task. Message type, not speaker, influenced noncomprehension signaling, with no intergroup…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Interpersonal Communication
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McDevitt, Teresa M.; Carroll, Marcalee – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1988
Two social factors and their interactive effects were examined as possible influences on children's detection and reporting of inconsistent statements. Factors were the stated intention and the age of the speaker. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Interpersonal Communication, Listening Comprehension
O'Neal, Sharon – 1983
Personal and professional characteristics of student teachers and cooperating teachers and their relation to supervision were studied. Conferences between 20 student teachers and their cooperating teachers were analyzed. Participants self-administered five instruments at the beginning, middle, and end of the student teaching experience: the…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics, Interpersonal Communication