Engagement during Communicative Interactions with Two Groups of Preverbal Children.

Autor/inn/en	Weintraub, Angela; Stillman, Robert
Titel	Engagement during Communicative Interactions with Two Groups of Preverbal Children.
Quelle	(1991), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Interaction; Interpersonal Communication; Language Acquisition; Language Handicaps; Nonverbal Communication; Participation; Preschool Children; Preschool Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interaktion; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language impairments; Sprachbehinderung; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Teilnahme; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	This study compared preverbal children (ages 3-4) with severe language impairments who were difficult to engage (Group 1) with others who were readily engaged (Group 2). The study focused on transitional episodes of engagement and on frequency of clinician and child verbal communications and nonverbal acts within transitional episodes. Eight clinician-child pairs were studied. Group 1 children spent more time maintained at a low level of engagement, while Group 2 children spent more time maintained at a high level of engagement. Group 1 was less likely than Group 2 to move from a "rising episode" (i.e., rising from low to high levels of engagement) to "maintained at a high level of engagement." Within transitional episodes, when Group 2's clinicians produced two more acts than the children, the engagement level fell. When the number of acts produced by the clinician and child matched almost exactly, the engagement level rose. Group 1's clinicians did not modulate the number of their verbal and nonverbal acts as a function of engagement level within rising and falling episodes. (JDD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01