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What Katy Did: A Case Study in Communication between a Pupil with Severe Learning Difficulties and Non-Disabled Classmates.
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Lewis, Ann – British Journal of Special Education, 1994
This case study examines the interactions between a 14-year-old student with severe learning difficulties attending a special school and her nondisabled peers during weekly integrated sessions. It notes the sensitivity, but dominance, of the nondisabled children and the active involvement, though subservient role, of the special school student.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Interaction Process Analysis, Intermediate Grades, Interpersonal Communication
Cooperative Conversations: The Effect of Cooperative Learning on Conversational Interaction.
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Miller, Kevin J. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1995
A single-subject design utilized three mainstreamed hard-of-hearing students in middle school to evaluate whether cooperative learning was effective in encouraging conversational interaction with hearing peers and teachers. Results indicated that cooperative learning positively influenced the conversational turns, initiations, moves, and mean…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Cooperative Learning, Hearing Impairments, Instructional Effectiveness
The Effectiveness of an Interactive Instructional Context: Principles from the Parent-Child Interaction Literature.
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Schneiderman, Ellen – American Annals of the Deaf, 1995
This study examined the effectiveness of embedding a targeted linguistic structure within an interactive instructional context with 10 deaf and hard-of-hearing students in grades 6 and 7. Comparison with control subjects supported the effectiveness of adopting instructional strategies consistent with a social-interaction perspective on language…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Instructional Effectiveness