Training Communication Skills in Young Children

Shantz, Carolyn Uhlinger; Wilson, Karl E.

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“…Child psychologists also provide some empirical evidence supporting our hypothesis (34, 37). In a sample of institutionalized children, Gelcer (13) found that clinical subjects who functioned at the concrete operational level in academic and nonpersonal fields of interest reverted to egocentric thinking in reference to personal problem areas.…”

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A Piagetian View of Family Therapy: Selvini‐Palazzoli and the Invariant Approach

Gelcer

Schwartzbein

1989

Family Process

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The Invariant Approach of Mara Selvini-Palazzoli is a new development in the Milan approach to family therapy. In order to distinguish and explain it, an overview of the Invariant Approach is given. Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development is used to provide a framework for explaining how Selvini-Palazzoli's therapy alters the family's epistemology and facilitates change in the "family game." It is suggested that family members in therapy tend to think about their problems in a style that resembles Piaget's preoperational period. The process of therapy can be seen as geared to facilitate a shift from a preoperational to an operational style of cognitive functioning. This shift gives family members access to more adaptive ways of thinking about their problem-solving strategies.

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A Piagetian View of Family Therapy: Selvini‐Palazzoli and the Invariant Approach

Gelcer

Schwartzbein

1989

Family Process

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“…Once particular skills are identified it becomes possible to teach children to improve their communication performance. Training studies, to date, have either been largely unsuccessful (Fry, 1966(Fry, , 1969 or produced mixed results (Shantz & Wilson, 1972), perhaps duo to an inadequate conceptualization of the skills to be taught. More careful specification of underlying processes should lead to greater impact.…”

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“…The use of adult listeners minimizes possible confounding of speaker and listener error. Children, in the present study, generated clues for an imaginary listener (Shantz & Wilson, 1972;Kingsley, Note 1), and clues were later given to college students who tried to select the referent from each clue.…”

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Influence of Sampling and Comparison Processes on the Development of Communication Effectiveness.

Asher

Parke

1975

Journal of Educational Psychology

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Children's communication performance improves with age, which could result from increases in children's vocabularies, changes in their strategies of selecting messages from their vocabularies, or both. Three experiments were conducted to evaluate these explanations. Two types of communication tasks were employed. One task required that speakers have adequate vocabulary, while the other task had the additional requirement that speakers select their messages based on comparison activity. Results indicated that second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children were equally effective communicators on the former task and that younger children were poorer communicators on the latter task. These data suggest that younger children have inadequate comparison strategies.

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“…The experimenter gave the same instructions to each child and made sure that they had understood. Children communicated with an imaginary listener, a procedure used in previous studies (Asher & Parke, 1975;Kingsley, 1971;Shantz & Wilson, 1972), which have indicated the absence of conceptual difficulty for elementary school-children; (Asher & Oden, 1976).…”

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Accurate Referential Communication and its Relation with Private and Social Speech in a Naturalistic Context

Girbau

Boada

2004

Span. J. Psychol.

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Research into human communication has been grouped under two traditions: referential and sociolinguistic. The study of a communication behavior simultaneously from both paradigms appears to be absent. Basically, this paper analyzes the use of private and social speech, through both a referential task (Word Pairs) and a naturalistic dyadic setting (Lego-set) administered to a sample of 64 children from grades 3 and 5. All children, of 8 and 10 years of age, used speech that was not adapted to the decoder, and thus ineffective for interpersonal communication, in both referential and sociolinguistic communication. Pairs of high-skill referential encoders used significantly more task-relevant social speech, that is, cognitively more complex, than did low-skill dyads in the naturalistic context. High-skill referential encoder dyads showed a trend to produce more inaudible private speech than did low-skill ones during spontaneous communication. Gender did not affect the results. Keywords: private speech, social speech, referential communication La investigación sobre comunicación humana se agrupa entorno a dos tradiciones: referencial y sociolingüística. Al parecer nunca se ha estudiado una conducta comunicativa simultáneamente desde ambos paradigmas. Básicamente este artículo analiza el uso del lenguaje privado y social, mediante una tarea referencial (Pares de Palabras) y una situación natural diádica (Lego), en una muestra de 64 niños/as de tercer y quinto cursos de primaria. Todos los niños/as de 8 y 10 años de edad produjeron un tipo de lenguaje no adaptado al descodificador, o sea ineficaz para la comunicación interpersonal, tanto en la comunicación referencial como en la sociolingüística. Las díadas formadas por los mejores codificadores referenciales usaron significativamente más lenguaje social pertinente a la tarea, o sea cognitivamente más complejo, que las díadas peores, en el contexto natural de comunicación espontánea. Las díadas de mejores codificadores referenciales mostraron una tendencia a producir más lenguaje privado inaudible que las peores, durante la comunicación espontánea. La variable sexo no influyó significativamente en los resultados. Palabras clave: habla privado, habla social, comunicación referencial

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Training Communication Skills in Young Children

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A Piagetian View of Family Therapy: Selvini‐Palazzoli and the Invariant Approach

A Piagetian View of Family Therapy: Selvini‐Palazzoli and the Invariant Approach

Influence of Sampling and Comparison Processes on the Development of Communication Effectiveness.

Accurate Referential Communication and its Relation with Private and Social Speech in a Naturalistic Context

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