Different response styles.?

Question

what is some different response styles of nonverbal communication and verbal communication for two audiences one being family members or friends and the other being supervisors or instructors?

Answer 1

Different response styles:

yea-saying/nay-saying

social conformance

opinionation

standard deviation

matching of body language

Answer 2

Students with disabilities may have response styles that are dominantly visual, auditorial, kinesthetic (1), kinesthetic, or spacial.  Any individual wishing to communicate effectively with a student, in either the home or school setting, should use the combination of these response styles or learning modalities that most closely matches those of the student.  It is possible that either those in the home or those in the school may have insights or instincts as to which approach is most dominate and therefore be most effective in the students receptive communication.

Formal expressive approaches have been found to be effective for nonverbal students, such as those with nonverbal autism.  Such approaches, typically introduced in school, preschool, or therapy settings, PECS Pictures, Icons Pages, or Boardmaker. These formal systems provide the words or pictures to be used with Adaptive and Augmentative Communication devices, such as  Dynavox or AlphaSmart.  They can also be used on standard computers and in picture communication books carried by the students (2).  

Regardless of the AAC equipment used, nonverbal and low verbal students may use  sign language (ASL, SE, SS), pointing to items, pointing to pictures, verbal utterances, written notes, or typed responses (2) as their primary effective mode of communication.  Each of these is dependent on the recipient being familiar and skilled at that mode of communication.  Therefore, parents might use sign language, while teacher may use pointing or writing to communicate with a particular student.

Finally, there is a methodology referred to as total communication.  Total communication refers to using a combination of methods to express oneself.  It is commonly applied in the deaf community, but may also be applied to other disabilities such as those with nonverbal autism.  Total communication (3) is the using any means of communication - sign language, voice, fingerspelling, lipreading, amplification, writing, gesture, visual imagery (pictures), facial expression, body language, pointing, grabbing, etc. in combination with each other to express a comprehensive idea in a clear context.  Both the sender and the receiver of the message must therefore be familiar with each of these skills being used in order not to miss the message or in order not to misinterpret the message intended.

1

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/cus...

2

http://trainland.tripod.com/pecs.htm

3

http://deafness.about.com/cs/communicati...