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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"conversational skills"”.
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The Impact of Video Self-modeling on Conversational Skills with Adolescent Students with Severe Disabilities
Video self-modeling has been found to be effective in increasing appropriate behaviors, increasing task fluency, and decreasing inappropriate behaviors. During video self-modeling, a student is filmed completing a task and then mistakes, prompts, and negative behaviors are edited from the video. …
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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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Improving English skills through Video: A Conversation-Based Curriculum for Chinese EFL Adult Learners
… be used in EFL classes in China to improve the conversational skills of students.</p>
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Using Facebook to improve social communication skills of students with autism spectrum disorders
… if Facebook would improve social communication skills of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. A total of nine students with ASD on two school campuses participated in the study. A multiple baseline single subject design across settings was used. During the baseline, students were observed …
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The Role of Interactive Experience in The Development of Discourse Skills
… of talk and the two groups did show different conversational skills. The Peer Interaction children showed an advantage in performance on such aspects of discourse skill as participation in communicative routines (e.g. greetings, closings and contingent queries); introducing more new …
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Paired speech and gesture generation in embodied conversational agents
… as an interface metaphor, an embodied conversational agent is likely to be easier to use and learn than traditional graphical user interfaces. To make a believable agent that to some extent has the same social and conversational skills as humans do, the embodied conversational agent …
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Cognition and communication in children/adolescents with cochlear implant
… which makes it possible for them to develop skills related to spoken communication. We have little knowledge about how hearing with a CI influences cognitive and communicative development and there is a need for development of methods for assessment. The general purpose of this thesis was to …
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Social Communication Intervention via Telehealth Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults: A Systematic Review
… post-TBI has to date been dominated by social skills and communication partner training, with telehealth (TH) delivery thereof recently emerging as a promising avenue of intervention. Method: This systematic review of social communication intervention via TH following TBI, was structured …
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Psychological theories and lay accounts of occupational choice: a comparative study of mechanical engineering and nursing undergraduates
… and 'developmental-stage' talk served specific conversational functions.<br/><br/>The findings call into question methods of careers guidance based on these theories and it is argued that attention should be directed at career-selection preparation. However, it should be noted that a focus on …
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Believable conversational agents for teaching ancient history and culture in 3D virtual worlds
This thesis introduces believable conversational agents as an engaging and motivational learning tool for teaching ancient history and culture in virtual worlds. Traditional approaches are lacking engagement, interactivity and socialisation, features that are of tremendous importance to modern …
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How does my robot know who I am?: Understanding the Impact of Education on Child-Robot Relationships
… curriculum allows students to program their own conversational skills on Jibo. These curricula represent two pedagogical approaches in the field of AI education, one focused on embedding ethics, and the other focused on students as self-driven makers. Next, I evaluated the impact of these …
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Nurse Practitioner Role Enactment in Community Palliative Care
… challenges and desires. Using conversations and conversational skills to have difficult and important conversations, NPs facilitated future planning for patients. Conversations also included addressing questions about MAiD, which were nuanced and often about more than MAiD, also addressing fears …
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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 …