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Kaczmarek, Louise A.; And Others – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1995
This study examined the listener preparatory behaviors (LPBs) of selecting a listener, establishing listener proximity, and obtaining listener attention, as exhibited by 16 preschoolers with moderate to severe disabilities attending three different self-contained programs. It revealed that opportunities for children to display all three LPBs in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Developmental Disabilities, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedSigafoos, Jeff; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
Analysis of 7 classrooms for children (ages 3-17) with developmental disabilities and a day-care center with nondisabled preschoolers revealed that less than 14% of the 6,000 observation intervals contained an opportunity for communication. Most opportunities involved naming an object or event, followed in frequency by opportunities to request,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Day Care Centers, Developmental Disabilities
Peer reviewedMarvin, Chris; Kasal, Kathleen R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1996
Analysis of videotapes of the signed communication (mostly Signed Exact English) of five preschool children with deafness in a special class found their communications brief and focused on the here-and-now. Topics of conversation were similar to those of nondisabled children. Child-initiated utterances were longer and more semantically diverse…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Deafness, Discourse Analysis
