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Peer reviewedBanbury, Mary M.; Hebert, Constance R. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1992
This article is intended to help teachers understand nonverbal signals used by students and explains proxemics, a person's use and perception of space, and kinesics, a person's facial and body cures. Teachers are encouraged to evaluate their own nonverbal communication styles. Principles are illustrated with scenarios of students with…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication Skills, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textSiegel-Causey, Ellin, Ed.; Guess, Doug, Ed. – 1988
The purpose of this manual, the culmination of a graduate project begun at the University of Kansas, is to assist individuals with severe, multiple disabilities and their service providers in learning to utilize nonsymbolic behaviors in an expanded, facilitative manner that leads to more consistent and predictable communication functioning. The…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication Skills, Eye Contact, Facial Expressions
Peer reviewedGurley-Dilger, 'Laine – Science Teacher, 1986
Describes an activity in which students observe pairs of students engaged in conversation. Observations of "body language" are made, shifts in stance, and duration of stance. Discusses the application of this type of study to other species. (TW)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Body Language, Ethology, Eye Contact
