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Hammond Jill; Bailey, Patricia – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1976
The Bliss Symbol System, an international pictorial language, is being used in Great Britain to help children with speech difficulties communicate in school and home. (IM)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedDyson, Anne Haas – Language Arts, 1986
Presents observations of three children's styles of symbolic language focusing on how each leaned to different degrees on drawing and talking to create their imaginary worlds and thus faced different challenges in rendering those worlds in print. (SRT)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Elementary Education, Freehand Drawing
Download full textBRITTON, JAMES – 1968
EVEN MORE THAN A RATIONAL ANIMAL, MAN IS A SYMBOLIZING ANIMAL, CREATING HIS OWN CHANGING REPRESENTATIONS OF REALITY. INSTRUMENTAL TO THIS PROCESS IS LANGUAGE, FOR IT PROVIDES THE BEST MEANS FOR STRUCTURING BOTH PAST AND FUTURE EXPERIENCE. THE VERBALIZATION OF BOTH PERSONAL AND VICARIOUS EXPERIENCE MAKES US REEVALUATE AND RESTRUCTURE OUR…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
