The questions 17 mothers addressed to their children, aged 18-34 months, during a play session were examined for the purpose they served in the conversation and the forms used to express them. (RH)

Attitudes toward death and dying of students who took a death course were compared with those who did not. Those completing the course had higher fear of death scores and rated death more potent on a semantic differential. These students indicated they would feel more comfortable talking with dying persons. (Author/BEF)

Evaluated comparative effectiveness of an in vivo presentation, a personally written letter, and an impersonal brochure in modifying students' attitudes toward the appropriateness of personal/social, vocational, and college routine concerns for discussion with a counseling psychologist. Results suggest simple presentation of the facts is enough to…

Examines how differences in the verbal and nonverbal behaviors available to persons influence their accuracy in detecting deceptive communication. (JMF)

Children's specialized speech codes and nonverbal behaviors are examined in the context of playground games. (JD)

When children enter school, their principal way of thinking is through talking aloud (rather than through internal verbalization), and they need to be encouraged in their use of language as they confront new academic problems. (JD)

Suggests the use of audiovisual aids in the place of discursive language to teach poetry appreciation. Examples are provided for use with French poetry. (AM)

Principles for easing potentially destructive conflicts are derived from fields other than social work and applied to education for practice in foster family care. (MS)

The current status of the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study a measure of aggressive verbal behavior in response to frustration at the developmental levels of the child, the adolescent and the adult, is described. (Editor)

The study examined the relationship between induced mood states of elation or depression and interviewee verbal behavior. Affective states were manipulated by an autosuggestion technique (mood induction procedure). Subjects were 45 female college students, assigned to treatment conditions of elation, depression, or neutral mood induction. Data…

Finds the internal consistency and temporal stability of the Adolescent Argumentativeness Scale and the Adolescent Verbal Aggressiveness Scale are reliable when used to assess these predispositions in adolescent populations, and that they demonstrated satisfactory face, concurrent, convergent, and discriminant validity. Indicates that, unlike…

Two studies examined the viability of emotional creativity as a theoretical construct. In both studies, participants (about 1700 college students in introductory psychology) who scored higher on the trait measure of emotional creativity showed greater creativity in expressing emotions, both verbally and nonverbally. (Author/DB)

Probes the meaning of multimodality for English-as-a-Second-Language learners by illustrating how the analytic approach of systemic functional linguistics offers insight into the semiotic interrelatedness of visual and verbal systems. (Author/VWL)

Discusses design and development issues in creating an interactive Web site for the field of communication disorders. Describes Vocaldevelopment.com, an interactive Web site that provides students, professionals, and parents with audio-recordings of infant vocalizations and information regarding intervention practices for infants and toddlers with…

This brief history of the development of alphabet books includes a list of alphabet books for elementary and middle school children. A strategy for the use of these books in class involves these steps: choose books; set a purpose; introduce books; read them; describe them; compare and contrast them; evaluate them; and compose your own books. (DG)