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Staff Perceptions of Communication with a Partner who is Intellectually Disabled
Author(s) -
McConkey Roy,
Purcell Margaret,
Morris Irene
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 1360-2322
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3148.1999.tb00077.x
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , psychology , task (project management) , nonverbal communication , perception , gesture , applied psychology , scale (ratio) , cognitive psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , computer science , physics , world wide web , economics , computer vision , management , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
Nineteen staff employed in small‐scale residential and day services were video‐recorded interacting with a client whom they knew well in two different contexts (selected from three possible contexts: either social, consultative or task‐related). Prior to each session, staff rated themselves and the clients on how likely they were to use a range of communication acts. These ratings were repeated after the session and the video‐recordings were rated similarly by two speech and language therapists. Although staff were able to predict and adapt their communications across the three contexts, their perceptions of communication were dominated by the use or non‐use of a ‘teaching’ strategy; that is one based around corrections, giving instructions and reinforcements, and the use of pointing and touch. Staff were less able to predict and assess the use of other verbal acts, such as commenting, and non‐verbal signals such as facial expressions and gestures both by themselves and by the clients.