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Barrett, Courtenay A.; Newman, Daniel S.; Lords, Paul O.; Ritter, Chelsea; Cottrell, Joseph M. – School Psychology, 2019
Given the importance of consultation in school psychology practice, more research is needed to examine the types of interpersonal communication through which consultation is effective. This study revisited Erchul and Schulte (1990), which investigated the amount of transcription and coding of consultation sessions required for reliable and…
Descriptors: School Psychology, School Psychologists, Consultation Programs, Interpersonal Communication
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Bedrosian, Jan L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1993
Procedures are discussed for collecting the conversational samples needed to conduct a topic assessment in the communication of adults with mild to moderate mental retardation. A framework for analyzing topic initiations, topic maintenance, and topic changes or disruptions is explained via transcripts illustrating various types of topic…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Methods
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Abbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1995
Conversational and narrative language samples were elicited from 16 school-age individuals with mental retardation and 16 typically developing children matched for mental age. Analysis demonstrated that both groups produced more syntactically complex language during narration, whereas they were more talkative during conversation. Results support…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education