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Salley, Brenda; Panneton, Robin K.; Colombo, John – Infancy, 2013
The aim of this study was to examine the combined influences of infants' attention and use of social cues in the prediction of their language outcomes. This longitudinal study measured infants' visual attention on a distractibility task (11 months), joint attention (14 months), and language outcomes (word-object association, 14 months; MBCDI…
Descriptors: Attention, Predictor Variables, Infants, Cues
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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
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Clark, Earl D.; Clark, Marilyn P. – 1976
This paper develops a theoretical context for the concept that visual literacy involves a specific type of information processing that has been discussed in the literature on symbolism and epistemology for a number of years. Literacy is discussed first, as a general process of information processing involving the generation of knowledge through…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Educational Theories, Nonverbal Communication
Thomas, Willard Y. – Educational Technology, 1974
A discussion of how the information explosion will require instantanious visual communication. (HB)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Information Theory
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
Burbank, Lucille; Pett, Dennis W. – Instructional Innovator, 1983
This brief survey of successful visual literacy programs designed for students at the elementary and secondary level outlines projects to teach visual communication skills in Ohio, Indiana (Project Visual Understanding in Education/VUE), Virginia, Iowa (Media NOW), California, Canada, England, and Australia (Visual Education Curriculum Project).…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Photography
Flory, Joyce – 1978
"Visual literacy" denotes the abilities, competencies, and skills necessary to accurately intercept, interpret, understand, and create communication in visual modes. The term also refers to a popular movement of both students and teachers (e.g., Visual Literacy Association, Action for Children's Television, The Screen Educator's Society) who wish…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Enrichment
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Mizuko, Mark; Esser, Joan – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1991
This study, involving 20 normally developing 4-year olds, found no visual sequential recall differences between direct selection and scanning in task performance. However, subjects correctly recalled fewer sequential symbols represented by Blissymbols than by Picsyms, and recalled significantly fewer three-symbol sequences than two-symbol…
Descriptors: Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Skills, Difficulty Level, Nonverbal Communication
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)
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