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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Conversation skills"”.
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Using covert audio coaching prompts to increase student pragmatic conversation skills
The importance of social skills for students with disabilities has given rise to this study. The ability to effectively communicate with family members, peers, and potential co-workers can lead to positive outcomes for individuals with cognitive disabilities. Many students struggle with social …
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The Effects of a Remote Control Tactile Feedback System on Conversation Skills in Children with Autism.
… an unobtrusive prompting method used to promote skills such as verbal initiations and play behaviors in children with autism. To date, however, no published studies have investigated the effects of the RCT as a consequence to increase and maintain conversation skills. This study was designed to …
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Video modeling to enhance the conversation skills of preschool children who are at-risk for school failure
… video-modeling method on language comprehension skills of preschoolers who are at-risk for school failure. The setting for this research was a preschool classroom in a low socioeconomic school district in southern New Jersey. Baseline data on the amount of comprehension questions the participants …
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The Assessment and Treatment of Conversational Skills for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Replication and Extension
Deficits in social skills are considered a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and have been shown to impact quality of life, but the research on effective social skills interventions for the adolescent population is lacking. Specifically, more research is needed on complex social skills, …
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Professional Development Time: A Longitudinal Study of the Implementation of Daily Teacher Collaboration
… issues, (b) using PDT by building professional conversation skills, (c) socializing new participants, (d) building sustainability practices into the design, and (e) devoting the necessary time to make PDT work.
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The use of virtual reality for teaching social skills to middle school students with autism
… disorders (ASD) for learning their social conversation skills. Six students participated in the study to learn social skills in a simulated learning environment through six lessons. A multiple-baseline design across students with AB phases was used. The frequency of their initiation, …
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The women's health project: a community intervention for AIDS risk reduction in women
… leaders also received training in specific conversation skills to endorse HIV-protective behavior and to convey a change in normative sexual behavior to women living in the intervention dormitory. At pre- and post-intervention, 580 surveys were collected from both the intervention and …
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Evaluation of three methods for teaching intraverbals to children with language delays
… more efficient learning of targeted language skills. The purpose of the current investigation was to compare three methods for teaching intraverbals (i.e., conversation skills) to individuals with deficits in this area. Specifically, mand to intraverbal transfer of control, mand interspersal, …
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The acquisition of competence in social and community living skills: studies on the relationship between acquisition competence and social and emotional adjustment: the issue of maintenance; and methods of training
Previous work in the area of community living skills has shown that people with a mental handicap can learn individual community living skills. However, it is clear that subjects require a range of skills to function successfully in the community and no study has attempted to train a comprehensive …
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An Examination of the Broader Autism Phenotype in Simplex and Multiplex Families
… particularly relevant in social communication skills. Multiplex family members showed decreased social interest, more impaired nonverbal communication abilities, and less flexible conversation skills compared to simplex family members. Effects were moderate to large across skill areas and were …
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Teaching Conversational Interactions to Children with Autism
Children with autism (ASD) often struggle as conversation partners. The current study aimed to teach children with ASD to sustain conversational behavior with an adult experimenter. The study was conducted on the basis of Kantor's Psychological Linguistics and Bijou et al.'s set of procedures …