Verbal training and verbal training plus gestures resulted in acquisition of noun-verb labeling responses in three severely retarded Ss (5-23 years old). The procedures did not differentially influence percentage of correct verbal labeling responses. The finding that gestural responses were shown across all conditions was discussed in terms of…

The study attempted to determine whether children and adults perceive different amounts of translucency in signs drawn from early sign teaching lexicons and representing three different semantic classes. Results indicate that four- and seven-year-old children and adults perceive signs representing action as more translucent than signs representing…

The author describes clinical sessions with an 11-year-old learning disabled child whose periods of silence communicated different meanings but were interpreted in the classroom as inability to perform tasks. (CL)

A study focusing on verbal and nonverbal communication and interaction factors involved in teaching children with severe learning difficulties suggested that differences in teaching style or strategy are closely related to the way in which language's functional qualities are expressed. (CL)

Components of a healthy home environment for hearing impaired children are considered, including good communication (such as the use of nonverbal communication) and emotional support. (CL)

Points out the pioneer work in communication processes of T. H. Gallaudet, founder of American education for the deaf. (PD)

In interactive media, it is the spaces between the text that are as important to read as the text itself. Visual literacy is a vital form of reading in an increasingly pictorial world. This paper examines the grammar of visual literacy by analyzing the discourse of a group of adolescents and the way they interpret multi-layered, seriated, and…

Concludes that a good reporter assigned to a personality interview pays careful attention to verbal and nonverbal cues in preparing his story. (RB)

The nonverbal elements of communication, as they pertain to education, act as cues to students. (NQ)

Summaries of 6 articles relating to various educational problems. (SP)

The findings indicated not only that different pictures were picked by the normal and depressive groups but also that the technique discriminated appropriately within the depressive group. (Author)

Applies some of the lessons learned from the study of nonverbal communication to the study of some extrasensory phenomena. (AN)

Presents a model for dealing with nonverbal communication in preservice and inservice teacher education settings. (AN)