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Visual Abilities and Exploration Behaviors as Predictors of Intelligence in Autistic Children from Preschool to School Age
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Girard, Dominique; Courchesne, Valérie; Cimon-Paquet, Catherine; Jacques, Claudine; Soulières, Isabelle – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
The current prospective cohort study investigated whether early perceptual abilities, measured at preschool age, could predict later intellectual abilities at school age in a group of 41 autistic (9 girls, 32 boys) and 57 neurotypical children (29 girls, 28 boys). More than 80% of the autistic children were considered minimally verbal.…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Preschool Children, Cognitive Ability, Verbal Communication
Recognition of Amodal Language Identity Emerges in Infancy
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Lewkowicz, David J.; Pons, Ferran – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
Audiovisual speech consists of overlapping and invariant patterns of dynamic acoustic and optic articulatory information. Research has shown that infants can perceive a variety of basic auditory-visual (A-V) relations but no studies have investigated whether and when infants begin to perceive higher order A-V relations inherent in speech. Here, we…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Perception, Auditory Perception, Speech Communication
Vision, Sign, and Inference
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Hoffmann, William E. – Visible Language, 1973
Suggests a connection between the perceptual world taken as a system of signs and the system of signs we normally think of as visible language and defends this thesis. (TO)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Interpretive Skills, Nonverbal Communication, Perceptual Development
Development of Conventional Object Term Descriptions.
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Schmidt, Constance R.; Shatz, Marilyn – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines how children's responses to questions about object terms varied across objects and the degree to which children specified common and conventional values for different object dimensions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Concept Formation
Proceedings of the First National Conference on Visual Literacy (Rochester, New York, March 23-26, 1969).
Williams, Clarence M., Ed.; Debes, John L., Ed. – 1970
The proceedings of the first national conference on visual literacy held in Rochester, New York (March 23-6, 1969) contain papers describing the concept of visual literacy (defined as vision competencies of integrating and interpreting sensory experiences fundamental to learning and communication). Related research is explored in areas such as…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Conference Reports, Perceptual Development, Sensory Experience
Research, Principles, and Practices in Visual Communication.
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Ball, John, Ed.; Byrnes, Francis C., Ed. – 1960
Under the sponsorship of the National Project in Agricultural Communications, a series of 14 lessons by various authors has been compiled to serve as a reader or training manual in the field of visual communications. Several models of communications are outlined and evaluated. Many studies which concern themselves with the concepts of source,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Communications, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Curriculum Planning Resource Manual for Developmental Skills and Communication Skills. Hearing Impaired: Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Revised Edition. [A Resource Manual for the Development and Evaluation of Special Programs for Exceptional Students, Volume V-A].
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Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Bureau of Education for Exceptional Students. – 1978
The manual is designed to provide teachers of hearing impaired students with a criterion referenced record of the student's existing skills. The record is intended to progress with the child through the elementary grades and to be used for developing individual profiles and plans. The manual consists of forms with columns for recording the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Communication Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Developmental Stages