title: Assessing socially situated participation: a way of integrating communication and social assessment approaches.
abstract: We have long treated communication and social assessment as related but separate domains. Theorizing by George Herbert Mead on "the social self" offers an alternative to this conceptual separation and a means of evaluating children's social interaction, social participation, and communication simultaneously. This article describes Mead's thinking and presents a framework for assessing children's social reciprocity, interactive stances, and role participation as they participate in everyday life contexts.
authors.affiliation: State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Duchan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D012380:Role; D012919:Social Behavior; D014705:Verbal Behavior