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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Expressive communication"”.
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Effects of Multi-Modal Communication Plans on Increasing Expressive Communication Skills of Individuals with Moderate-Significant Disabilities
… struggle with developing effective and efficient expressive communication skills. In the current study, the expressive communication skills of six individuals with moderate to significant disabilities are observed to determine whether having a formal multi-modal communication plan will help to …
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Dynamic Relations Within and Between Early Communication Proficiencies and Key Skill Elements' Growth Trajectories of Infants and Toddlers
… in early childhood, of which proficiency in expressive communication is requisite to children’s cognitive and social development. Identification of communication and language delays must be made as early as possible to inform appropriate intervention services targeting prevention of childhood …
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Evaluation of Blissymbolics as a Means of Communication for the Deaf-cerebral Palsy Population
… population with a more functional means of communication.</li> <li>To test the validity of using a non-vocal means of communication, Blissymbolics, when other more traditional methods of teaching communication skills (sign language or verbal communication) have been ineffective.</li> </ol> …
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The effect of bilingual music therapy on the expressive language of Spanish speaking children who are learning English in early childhood classrooms
… the effect of bilingual music therapy on expressive language output in special needs children learning English in early childhood classrooms. Eleven English language learners participated in either an English-only control group or a Bilingual experimental group. In the English-only group, …
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Temperament and Early Communication in Premature Children.
… children are at greater risk for developing communication delays than full-term children, although it is not inevitable. Recent research links specific temperament characteristics to early language development. Thus, temperament may provide a way to identify premature children who are at …
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Effects of early intervention on pragmatic language in children with autism
… impairments in social and verbal and nonverbal communication. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder with core deficits in social and communication, struggle to effectively accomplish social interactive goals through pragmatic language. Early intervention programs may strengthen expressive …
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Occupations as an Outcome Measure in a Clinical Trial: Fragile X Syndrome and Sertraline
… to the placebo group in: anxiety, receptive / expressive communication, maladaptive behaviors and some sensory issues. These preliminary findings warrant a need for further research with a larger sample.</p>
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Assessing Intentional Communication in Typically Developing Infants Using the Communication Complexity Scale
The Communication Complexity Scale (CCS; Brady, Fleming, Thiemann-Borque, Olswang, Dowden, Saunders, & Marquis, 2012) is a criterion-referenced assessment of early, primarily pre-linguistic, communication signals. It produces an expressive communication summary score, based on the most …
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Educational intervention programmes for very young children : an overview, with specific reference to the home early learning programme of the Athlone Early Learning Centre
… time on Chart 3 (Socialisation) and Chart 5 (Expressive Communication), while children participating in the Home Early Learning Programme show statistically significant improvement on Chart 2 (Interaction with Objects, Dexterity and Fine Coordination) . Significant differences between the two …
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Investigating the effects of integrated systematic decoding, spelling and communication instruction for students with complex communication needs
… impact of an integrated decoding, spelling and communication intervention on literacy and communication outcomes for students with complex communication needs (CCN). The current study was done with three students with CCN, all of whom used a particular augmentative communication device. Using a …
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A social exchange and power dependency theory perspective of Mexican immigrant family communication patterns
<p>This study aimed to identify the family communication patterns that were typical of Mexican immigrant'schildhood and parenthood, along with the influence that resources and the distribution of power and dependency have within the family structure. In doing so, this study demonstrated how a …
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From Vico to Grassi: toward a rhetoric of openness
… interpretation and invention which activate expressive communication. Through its quadrants (the Physical Body, the Socio-Cultural Situation, the Idea Realm, and Time and Place), collaborating participants generate complex, dynamic interchange. Student writing provides a pool of rich data …
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The influence of affect on product evaluations and search behavior: an integration of affect and the economics of information
… One experiment tested this notion using a verbal communication method (i.e., a written product description) and the other experiment employed the use of a visual communication method (i.e., a video). In general, the results supported the influence of affective responses on expectations of …
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Blissymbolics as an Augmentative Communication Tool for Adults with Expressive Aphasia
… whether Blissymbolics - a visual-graphic communication system based on meaning rather than phonetics - could be used as a means of communication re-training with adults having expressive aphasia. This study investigated the performance of those individuals who had plateaued in re-learning …
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The applicability of implementing Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) with young children with developmental disabilities who reside in the Western Cape and speak Afrikaans or IsiXhosa at home: parent and professional perspectives
… behavioural intervention (NDBI) to improve expressive communication. EMT produces favourable long-term results in both vocabulary growth and linguistic structure after a relatively short intervention period. However, very little research has been conducted to prove its effectiveness in …