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Ways to Communicate with Children Who Are Profoundly Mentally Retarded and Cannot Speak.
Adam, Heidemarie – 1985
Experiences working with nonverbal severely and profoundly retarded and multiply handicapped children are discussed in this paper. Alternative communication systems are reviewed, including use of manual signs, pictures and symbols, photographs, realistic drawings, pictograms, and Bliss Symbols. A model for teaching basic understanding of…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Manual Communication, Multiple Disabilities, Nonverbal Communication
Recognizing and Enhancing the Communication Skills of Your Group Home Clients.
Vicker, Beverly A. – 1985
The manual examines ways in which nonprofessional group home health care workers can enhance the communication and interaction skills of developmentally disabled clients. The communication process is explored in terms of information exchange, both verbal and nonverbal. Examples of vocal, nonvocal, and echolalic speech are offered and suggestions…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Skills, Developmental Disabilities, Group Homes
Gestural Training Breaks Communication Barrier in Child Autism
Webster, Christopher – Special Education in Canada, 1973
Descriptors: Autism, Communication Skills, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education
A Study of the Ability of Day-Class Deaf Adolescents to Comprehend Factual Information Using Four Communication Modalities
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Newell, William – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
Twenty-eight deaf adolescents enrolled in a day-class program for the hearing impaired were administered a battery of four short factual stories using oral, manual, simultaneous, and interpreted modalities of communication. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comprehension, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Teaching English as a Second Language to Young Deaf Children: A Case Study
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Collins-Ahlgren, Marianne – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1974
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Skills, Deafness, English
Communication Instruction with Hearing-Impaired College Students Within the Manual/Simultaneous Communication Department, NTID
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Penna, Karen L.; Caccamise, Frank – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
The goal of the Manual/Simultaneous Communication Department (M/SCD) at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is to assist deaf students in developing communication skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Communication Skills, Deafness, Finger Spelling
A Program for Increasing Manual Signing by Autistic and Profoundly Retarded Youth within the Daily Environment.
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Schepis, Maureen M.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1982
A program was implemented to increase the manual signing of five profoundly retarded (mean age, 19 years) and four autistic (mean age, 9 years) youth within their daily environment. (Author)
Descriptors: Attendants, Autism, Children, Communication Skills
A Self-Instruction Lab for Developing Communication Skills of Deaf Post-Secondary Students at NTID.
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McQuay, Kandy Connell; Coscarelli, Lenore Spagnuolo – American Annals of the Deaf, 1980
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) uses a unique, individualized, Self-Instruction Lab to improve students' communication skills. The lab provides students with supplemental independent classroom practice that helps lessen time demands for the teacher. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Communication Skills, Deafness, Individual Instruction
Communication and Language Development in a Child with Severe Visual and Auditory Impairments: A Case Study and Discussion of Multiple Modalities.
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Van Hedel-van Grinsven, Ria – RE:view, 1989
The article describes methods used to bring a seven-year-old boy with severe auditory and visual impairments and no communication skills to a level of oral communication within one year. The manual, graphic, and oral-aural strategies used are described. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Hearing Impairments
Filling the Gap: A Manual for Integrating the Deaf Adult into Adult Basic Education Classes.
Haffner, Richard; And Others – 1992
Based on a program developed to help the integration of deaf persons into the world of work, this manual is intended to familiarize adult basic education (ABE) teachers with the special needs of deaf persons. Information is provided to answer questions such as: (1) What is so different about deaf students? (2) What is "deaf culture"? (3)…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adult Basic Education, American Sign Language, Classroom Techniques
The Influence of Fingerspelling on the Development of Language, Communication, and Educational Achievement in Deaf Children.
Quigley, Stephen P. – 1969
Two studies were made of the Rochester Method of combining fingerspelling with speech and of its effects on development of language and communication in profoundly, prelingually deaf children. A survey tested school performances of 200 subjects from six residential schools for the deaf, three of which used the Rochester Method and three which used…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Skills, Deafness, Exceptional Child Research
Sharing Literacy Models: Deaf Adults, Deaf Children, and Their Families.
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Anthony, Robert A.; And Others – 1994
This document includes a final report, manual, and booklets from a project conducted to develop an instructional video program and related print materials, combined with literacy training, peer sharing, and reading practice opportunities targeted to families of young children in which at least one member is deaf. In the video program, vignettes…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Educational Resources