title: Communicative competence in a group of visually impaired children.
abstract: Aspects of verbal and non-verbal communicative competence of five visually-impaired six and seven year old children were investigated. The Profile of Communicative Appropriateness (Penn, 1983) was used to assess communicative competence in one discourse interaction with a known interlocutor (mother). The results indicated that the subjects were predominantly appropriate in terms of verbal communication, and predominantly inappropriate in terms of non-verbal communication. Severity of visual impairment influenced performance in terms of non-verbal communication. Research and therapeutic implications are discussed.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shapiro
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015354:Vision, Low