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Bondy, Andy – Psychological Record, 2012
The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is an alternative/augmentative communication protocol designed to help children and adults with autism and related disabilities to engage in functional communication. The protocol was developed over a number of years and was based on Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior. Publications about the…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Autism, Verbal Stimuli, Misconceptions
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Highnam, Clifford; Wegmann, Joyce; Woods, Jason – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1999
Twenty-four children (ages 8-12) with and without language disorders explained possible pairings of both pictorial and verbal stimuli. Control subjects provided significantly more metaphoric accounts of pairings than children with language disorders, regardless of modality. Pictorial stimuli elicited significantly more metaphoric pairings than did…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Language Impairments, Metaphors
Sapon, Stanley M. – IRAL, 1969
Revision of paper presented at the Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Division 25 (Washington D.C., September 1, 1967).
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Disadvantaged Youth, Pictorial Stimuli, Preschool Children
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Friedman, Howard S. – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1979
Students' perceptions of sincerity, dominance, and positivity were measured by pairing happy, angry, surprised and sad faces of teachers with teachers' comments characterized as positive or negative and dominant or submissive. Clear effects of facial-verbal combinations emerged; there were no sex differences other than in perceptions of sincerity.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cues, Emotional Response, Facial Expressions