Background: Children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) meet other children with PIMD in day care centres or schools. This study explores the peer-directed behaviours of children with PIMD, the peer interaction-influencing behaviour of the direct support workers and the children's positioning. Method: Group activities for…

Describes research conducted at a school for deaf children which combined microanalysis of the communicative behaviors of individuals with the sociocultural analysis of groups within one institutional setting. Three factors were found to have most influence on the teacher's communicative behavior during the recorded interactions with the children.…

The purpose of this study was to state several desired teacher behaviors relative to the development of cognitive skills in young children and to determine the extent to which those behaviors could be achieved. The study involved 16 students in a graduate course, all of whom were currently or had been teachers. Each graduate student recorded a…