This training program handbook focuses on the presentation and practice of eight basic communication skills: attending, paraphrasing, reflection of feeling, summarizing, probing, counselor self-disclosure, interpreting, and confrontation. The skills are presented in 10 sessions, one for each of the eight skills and two integrating sessions. The…

Investigated with 17 special education practicum students was the effectiveness of structured experiences designed to foster interpersonal skill development. Administered as pre- and post-tests were the Helping Relationship Inventory, the Personal Orientation Inventory, and the Firo-B. Following a group workshop, the Ss differed significantly from…

This report presents data obtained from an experiment in student teaching behaviors designed to suggest an explanation for the previously detected relationship between cooperating teacher behavior and student teacher utilization of skills acquired during microteaching training. In order to determine if one or the other explains more effectively…

This volume represents a fairly complete record of a conference held in January 1977, of more than 100 individuals from Hawaiian businesses, governments, educational institutions, and other groups, which was organized by the University of Hawaii's Research Center for Futures Study. Transcripts and papers from participants, on the following topics,…

Ways to select and display table toys and guide children's use of them in child care centers. (BRT)

Pharmacological education is presented as a continuous undertaking of preclinical students, clerks, and physicians and surgeons in training and practice. Goals are listed for the preclinical, clerkship, and residency stages of training, and the various actions which candidates should actually perform at each stage are defined. (Editor/JT)

The author discusses the pros and cons of using and teaching commonly used phrases in shorthand. (BP)

Based on a PhD dissertation submitted to the University of Wisconsin.

Chapter 3 in Life Skills in School and Society.

Condensed from "The Teachers College Record, Volume 70 (December 1968), 227-31

A research project was conducted to determine if dynamic skill training differs in important ways from knowledge system instruction. The term dynamic skills was used to mean sets of intellectual processes responsible for selective perceptions in a real time driven content and for the selection and performance of appropriate responses in that…

Intended for parents and teachers, the manual offers guidelines for developing communication skills in severely and profoundly mentally handicapped children. An introduction helps the reader determine a suitable starting point and provides a description of early communication skills; Part II describes the five stages in communication development.…