ERIC Number: EJ367481
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Building Communication Skills.
Goodman, Gay; Hart, Leslie
Academic Therapy, v23 n4 p431-35 Mar 1988
A program is described which successfully improved writing and communication skills in adolescents with learning and behavior problems. The students, inpatients at a mental health hospital, wrote "jargon journals" on topics from a student-generated list. The journals had therapeutic as well as academic benefits. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Communication Skills, Diaries, Emotional Disturbances, Learning Disabilities, Patients, Personal Narratives, Program Development, Psychiatric Hospitals, Secondary Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Therapy, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement, Writing Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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