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Turkstra, Lyn; Ciccia, Angela; Seaton, Christine – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2003
This study collected normative behavioral data from extemporaneous 3-minute conversations of 50 typically developing adolescents. Analysis found the following high frequency behaviors: directing gaze at the partner, nodding and showing neutral and positive facial expressions, using back-channel responses, and giving contingent responses.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills
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Beilinson, Jill Selber; Olswang, Lesley B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2003
Case studies of three kindergarten students with social difficulties illustrate an intervention program emphasizing a sequential peer-entry hierarchy in which children move from low-risk strategies to high-risk strategies and use props to facilitate the production of high-risk verbal statements. Increases were found in use of props and verbal…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Disorders, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Communication
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Ratcliff, Ann E.; Cress, Cynthia J. – Journal of Children's Communication Development, 1999
This study examined the context and interaction variables associated with communication reciprocity with five adolescents with physical and/or cognitive disabilities using augmentative/alternative communication (AAC) systems and their nondisabled peers. Clusters of context/interaction patterns related to more balanced communication were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills