Laughter and smiling are frequently experienced in social settings, yet more research is required to delineate their development and dynamics. We investigated toddlers' and parents' shared positive expressions in playful interactions. We observed eighty 30-month-old toddler-parent dyads in two phases of 8 min in length. In each, one person was…

The ability to gather meaningful responses and valuable data in higher education is entirely dependent on students actively participating in surveys. To explore the issue of falling response rates among college students, we tested whether attention-grabbing marketing techniques or connection-oriented communication strategies would be more…

Past studies have shown that first language and second language (L2) listeners can adapt to unfamiliar L2 pronunciation. However, little is known about the process of adaptation, especially by L2 listeners. The present study examined the degree to which L2 listeners' adaptation process is influenced by speaker intelligibility and input…

Casual conversations between faculty members in places like faculty lounges and collaborative events are essential for sharing knowledge, working together, and building a sense of community within academic institutions. Social Network Analysis (SNA) of informal professor communications plays a vital role in fostering students' ethical competence…

We compare two frameworks for the segmentation of words in child-directed speech, PHOCUS and MULTICUE. PHOCUS is driven by lexical recognition, whereas MULTICUE combines sub-lexical properties to make boundary decisions, representing differing views of speech processing. We replicate these frameworks, perform novel benchmarking and confirm that…

We considered the problems, prospects, and tools for intercultural dialogue in the universities of Russia from the position of their generalization and identification of the successful experience for its extrapolation and implementation in other higher education establishments. The methodology of this research is comprised of complex tools, which…

State prekindergarten (PreK) leaders in the United States of America are instrumental to efforts to build birth through third grade systems as they are situated at a nexus point between early childhood education and care (ECEC) systems and the kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) education system. This qualitative study examined the ways…

Given that social media and the internet are primary sources of information for parents seeking guidance on child development, it is vital to investigate how screen time research is communicated and propagated online. This study examines 136 online articles about screen time published between 2016 and 2021, analyzing how sensationalism and…

This study examines the communication techniques and frames used in the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol's YouTube content, as well as viewer engagement with the content. Through a content analysis of the organization's 28 producer-facing videos, this research identified key framing strategies, emotional and logical appeals, and sources used. The…

This paper aims to understand how primary students use gestures to solve partition tasks and to what extent these gestures may promote fraction understanding. Analysis of six selected students' answers to partitioning tasks, classroom observation, and post-lesson interviews indicates that co-thought representational gestures play a critical role.…

This paper critically examines how local government units (LGUs) in Davao Oriental, Philippines, can articulate their engagement with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) communication policies. The analysis uses Mumby's (1997) four discourses of communication research--representation, understanding, suspicion, and vulnerability--as a theoretical…

This study explored bilingual approaches to establishing communication repertoires for culturally and linguistically diverse nonverbal autistic children. We explored concurrent English and Spanish mand instruction across language-specific contexts (i.e., blocked vs. shuffled language trials). Participants first received communication intervention…

The overall aim was to examine participants' perceptions of a communication course as held for parents of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. The course curriculum included responsive strategies and augmentative and alternative communication. The research questions addressed the favourability, changes in parents' or…

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have conversation deficits, yet the growth of conversation abilities is understudied, especially in Chinese-speaking populations. Little is known about whether their parents' verbal responsiveness and redirectives are related to their conversation skills. Children with ASD (N = 37; M = 5;5) and their…

Introduction: Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are a continuum of traits that may negatively affect social and emotional competencies of individuals, including challenges in their engagement abilities, possible limitations in reciprocal interactions, and inflexibility in initiating and sustaining communication. Such challenges may affect language…