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Peer reviewedAvent, Jan – Topics in Language Disorders, 2004
Cooperative group treatment for aphasia based on cooperative learning principles is designed to improve communication skills during small, two-member group interactions. The treatment involves teamwork incorporating positive interdependence, face-to-face promotive interaction, individual accountability, and group processing. Group size, treatment…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Communication Skills, Aphasia, Cooperative Learning
Peer reviewedWilcox, M. Jeanne – Topics in Language Disorders, 1989
The paper provides an organizational framework for communication-based interventions with infants, toddlers, and their families. The paper describes early intervention approaches including remediation, prevention, and compensation, and offers guidelines for selecting the appropriate programmatic approach and determining the model for service…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Delivery Systems, Early Intervention, Family Involvement
Peer reviewedCheng, Li-Rong Lilly – Topics in Language Disorders, 1989
Intervention planning for limited-English-proficient students calls for an experiential approach which compares and contrasts the students' home culture with mainstream United States culture. Methods are presented for incorporating student culture in intervention activities (building a multicultural calendar, studying folk tales) and for…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Communication Disorders, Cultural Activities, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedCress, Cynthia J. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2004
Research and clinical experience both indicate that parents are excellent observers of communication in their children who rely on augmentative and alternative communication. However, parents and professionals may find themselves in conflict about how to interpret and support children's communication. This article outlines strategies for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Disabilities, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders
Peer reviewedMoeller, Mary Pat; And Others – Topics in Language Disorders, 1986
Six stages of a total communication intervention strategy to improve question comprehension skills in a profoundly hearing impaired subject (age 12) are described: (1) enhancing emergent skills; (2) manipulating wh-question forms; (3) increasing flexibility in wh-question responses; (4) developing questions in conversational context; (5) prompting…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Disorders, Comprehension, Deafness
Peer reviewedBlosser, Jean L.; DePompei, Roberta – Topics in Language Disorders, 1989
This examination of the impact of the head-injured student's cognitive-communicative deficits upon school performance and interpersonal relationships focuses on: the educator's perspective regarding the head-injured student, specific cognitive-communicative deficits, typical classroom behaviors of the student, teaching strategies, useful…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Restructuring, Communication Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education
