Discusses a study dealing with English, Northern Italian and Southern Italian encoders role-playing specific emotions and degrees of two dimensions of emotion, and presents evidence suggesting that for neither the English nor the Italians, do hand gestures and other bodily cues function as a major communication channel for emotion. Available from:…

Relates a follow-up study of newlywed couples nine months after marriage to determine the couple's appraisal of the most frequent causes of discord and unhappiness. (MH)

Stresses that non-verbal as well as verbal behavior must be considered in interaction analysis. Cites examples of behaviors that are interpreted differently by various cultures. (CP)

The author examines the relationships existing between movement and cognition in child development. (MJB)

Discusses the premise that the environmental demands of teaching in classrooms interact with performance both to shape observed behavior and to establish limits on the range of response options. (SB)

Presents a critical discussion of some contemporary literature on the language development and communication problems of persons with severe handicaps. States that for meaning to be transmitted from one person to another, a social-interactive context is required. Draws implications for care givers and therapists. (Author/JDH)

Investigated the idea of spatial arrangement as applied to married couples as a first step in the study of the diagnostic value of spatial relationships in family therapy. Showed that couples' space can be used to identify conflicted marital relationships and to differentiate between distressed and nondistressed couples on the basis of husbands'…

Drawing as therapy for the expressively restricted aphasic adult is discussed with sections on: drawing and acquired brain damage, communication through drawing in aphasia, and training expressively restricted aphasic patients to draw communicatively by use of the Lyon/Sims Program. (DB)

The relationship between language and symbolic gesture was studied in nine children (ages 18-32 months) who were in the lowest 10 percent for language production for their age. Subjects performed like language-matched controls on a lexical production task. On a syntax-related task, they performed like age-matched and significantly better than…

Videotape study of preschool children, two to five years of age, and adults who posed the six facial expressions of happiness, surprise, anger, fear, sadness, and disgust. Poses were scored using the MAX system. Results showed that consistent differences between partial and complete poses were observed for negative expressions. (Author/RWB)

Discusses use of body parts, tribal marks, and external symbols as forms of nonverbal communication by Africans and describes the messages they convey; suggests ways to use nonverbal communication to facilitate learning in training situations; and describes how trainers and trainees subconsciously use nonverbal communication in a prejudicial,…

The paper traces the purpose, history, and development of augmentative communication and describes the state of the art in assessment, system/symbol selection, and range of technology available in aids. The effects on communication function and the facilitation of interaction are stressed. (Author/CL)

Results of two experiments on choosing replacement behaviors for behavior problems in developmentally disabled students were consistent with the hypothesis that some behavior problems may be viewed as nonverbal communication and that behavior problems and verbal communicative acts may be equivalent in function. Therefore, strengthening the latter…