Communicating Partners

Dr. James D. MacDonald's Website

Helping Parents Help Children. Programs for Parents, Therapists & Educators

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• FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions
• The Research Studies
• Articles on Autism
• Articles On Down Syndrome
• Introduction To the Adult-Child Relationship Map (ARM)
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• About the Website

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Summary

Your Child's Social and Communicative Life

Interactive Life

• Social Play
• Imitation/Modeling
• Turn taking
• Concerns

NONVERBAL COMMUNICATIVE LIFE

• Non-vocal communication
• Vocal communication
• Reasons child communicates
• Receptive communication
• Concerns

SOCIAL LANGAUGE

• Form (how child communicates)
• Content (what child communicates)
• Use (why child communicates)
• Speech clarity
• Appropriateness of talking
• Concerns

CONVERSATION

• Enjoys conversations
• Stay on mutual topic
• Converses for many reasons
• Concerns

EMOTIONAL/CIVIL LIFE

• Cooperation
• Civil behavior
• Emotionally appropriate behavior
• Empathy
• Concerns

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