Original Research
Communicative competence in a group of visually impaired children
South African Journal of Communication Disorders | Vol 36, No 1 | a296 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v36i1.296
| © 2019 Michelle Simpson, Glenda Shapiro
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 28 October 2016 | Published: 31 December 1989
Submitted: 28 October 2016 | Published: 31 December 1989
About the author(s)
Michelle Simpson, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaGlenda Shapiro, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Full Text:
PDF (225KB)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 nonverbal communication. Research and therapeutic implications are discussed.
Keywords
No related keywords in the metadata.
Metrics
Total abstract views: 1705Total article views: 767
Crossref Citations
1. Development of Communicative Competence in Junior High School Students with Visual Impairment in Different Institutional and Educational Settings
Vitaly Z Kantor, Galina V. Nikulina, Irina N. Nikulina
Integration of Education vol: 25 issue: 2 first page: 321 year: 2021
doi: 10.15507/1991-9468.103.025.202102.321-339