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Teaching Parents Read, Ask, Answer, Prompt Strategies via Telepractice: Effects on Parent Strategy Use and Child Communication
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Dodge-Chin, Cheri; Shigetomi-Toyama, Sandra; Quinn, Emily D. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: This study aimed to explore the feasibility of a telepractice communication partner intervention for children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and their parents. Method: Five children (aged 3;4-12;9 [years;months]) with severe expressive communication impairments who use AAC and their parents enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Children, Preadolescents
Integrating Language, Pragmatics, and Social Intervention in a Single-Subject Case Study of a Child with a Developmental Social Communication Disorder
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Adams, Catherine; Gaile, Jacqueline; Lockton, Elaine; Freed, Jenny – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2015
Purpose: This clinical focus article presents an illustration of a complex communication intervention, the Social Communication Intervention Programme (SCIP), as delivered to a child who has a social communication disorder (SCD). The SCIP intervention combined language processing and pragmatic and social understanding therapies in a program of…
Descriptors: Children, Developmental Disabilities, Communication Disorders, Intervention
Description and Preliminary Evaluation of a Curriculum for Teaching Conversational Skills to Children with High-Functioning Autism and Other Social Cognition Challenges
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Müller, Eve; Cannon, Lynn R.; Kornblum, Courtney; Clark, Jonna; Powers, Michal – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this clinical focus article is to provide (a) a detailed description of a school-based intervention designed to teach children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (HF-ASDs) and other social cognition challenges both the "how" and the "why" of conversation and (b) a preliminary evaluation of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Communication Skills, Children, Autism
Communication Development and Differences in Children Adopted from China and Eastern Europe
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Hwa-Froelich, Deborah A.; Matsuo, Hisako – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: The communication development of children adopted from China and Eastern Europe was compared by region of origin at 6 and 12 months after adoption. Method: Twenty children, recruited before or immediately following their adoption, participated in the study. Measures were collected between 2 and 6 months after adoption (Time 1) and between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Adoption, Communication Skills
The Use of Repair Strategies by Children with and without Hearing Impairment.
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Most, Tova – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2002
Sixteen students (ages 11-17) with profound hearing impairment, assessed as having either good or poor speech intelligibility, were asked to describe pictures and to respond to a series of clarification requests. Significant differences emerged in repair strategies used by the two groups and in comparison with normal hearing peers despite similar…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communication Skills, Deafness, Expressive Language
Metapragmatic Awareness of Explanation Adequacy: Developing Skills for Academic Success from a Collaborative Communication Skills Unit.
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Kaufman, Sheri Skurow; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1994
A third-grade classroom participated in a communication skills unit (CSU) designed and implemented collaboratively by a teacher, speech-language pathologist, and student speech-language pathologist. The CSU aimed to increase the students' metapragmatic awareness of explanation adequacy. Students showed significant improvement in ability to rate…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Grade 3, Interpersonal Communication
A Semantic Analysis of Signed Communication in an Activity-Based Classroom for Preschool Children Who Are Deaf.
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Marvin, 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