Descriptor
| Classroom Communication | 8 |
| Special Classes | 8 |
| Communication Skills | 3 |
| Interaction | 3 |
| Interpersonal Communication | 3 |
| Preschool Education | 3 |
| Communication (Thought… | 2 |
| Developmental Disabilities | 2 |
| Exceptional Child Research | 2 |
| Expressive Language | 2 |
| High Schools | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Journal of Autism and… | 1 |
| Journal of the Association… | 1 |
| Language, Speech, and Hearing… | 1 |
| Learning Disabilities… | 1 |
Author
| Echevarria, Jana | 1 |
| Elliot, W. L. | 1 |
| HURLEY, OLIVER L. | 1 |
| Kaczmarek, Louise A. | 1 |
| Kasal, Kathleen R. | 1 |
| Kluwin, Thomas N. | 1 |
| Marvin, Chris | 1 |
| McDonough, Renee | 1 |
| Mertens, Donna M. | 1 |
| Semmel, Melvyn I. | 1 |
| Sigafoos, Jeff | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 4 |
| Reports - Research | 3 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
| Practitioners | 1 |
| Students | 1 |
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Flanders System of… | 1 |
| Minnesota Teacher Attitude… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Kaczmarek, Louise A.; And Others – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1995
This study examined the listener preparatory behaviors (LPBs) of selecting a listener, establishing listener proximity, and obtaining listener attention, as exhibited by 16 preschoolers with moderate to severe disabilities attending three different self-contained programs. It revealed that opportunities for children to display all three LPBs in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Developmental Disabilities, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedSigafoos, Jeff; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
Analysis of 7 classrooms for children (ages 3-17) with developmental disabilities and a day-care center with nondisabled preschoolers revealed that less than 14% of the 6,000 observation intervals contained an opportunity for communication. Most opportunities involved naming an object or event, followed in frequency by opportunities to request,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Day Care Centers, Developmental Disabilities
Peer reviewedMarvin, 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
Peer reviewedEchevarria, Jana; McDonough, Renee – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1995
Students (n=12) in a self-contained elementary class for students with learning disabilities were taught using instructional conversation (IC), a teaching method in which students are engaged in interactions promoting analysis, reflection, and critical thinking. IC promoted oral participation and interactions among students and provided a holistic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education
Elliot, W. L. – 1991
The RE-FOCUS Program at Ruskin High School in Kansas City, Missouri, helps at-risk students to redefine their efforts in social behavior and academic success. When inappropriate behavior occurs and the classroom teacher needs assistance, the student is taken out of his/her regular school environment and assigned in the RE-FOCUS room. The program,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discipline Policy, Discipline Problems, High Risk Students
Download full textMertens, Donna M.; Kluwin, Thomas N. – 1986
The education process of hearing-impaired students in 18 public secondary mathematics classrooms was examined in order to account for achievement and social adjustment differences between 11 mainstreamed and 7 self-contained classrooms. The classrooms were compared on the following dimensions: (1) social interactions among students, (2) teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Expectation, Hearing Impairments
HURLEY, OLIVER L. – 1967
NOTING THAT RECENT RESEARCH POINTS TO LINGUISTIC CODE DIFFERENCES AS AN IMPORTANT FACET OF CULTURAL DEPRIVATION AND THAT THE MAJORITY OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED (EMR) CHILDREN COME FROM LOW SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS, IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT ONE OF THE KEYS TO LEARNING FOR EMR CHILDREN IS THE COMPLEXITY OF THE TEACHER'S LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO THAT…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Research
Semmel, Melvyn I.; And Others – 1967
Flanders' Interaction Analysis, which classifies verbal interaction into 10 categories, was used to compare two groups consisting of seven trainable mentally retarded (TMR) classrooms each. The sample was selected from the extremes of a population of 87 TMR classrooms on the basis of their teachers' high (tending to flexibility and harmony) or low…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Exceptional Child Research, Interaction
