The applied communication game: a comment on Muma's "communication game: dump and play".

We now have technology available to teach speech and language skills to children. We cannot always expect children to carry over or generalize this training and spontaneously use this "trained language" in communication situations, so we now must develop technology for teaching interpersonal communication skills. This report commented on a model presented by Muma (1975). Illustrations were presented that should help clinicians train more effective interpersonal communication. The applied communication game provides an objective procedure that utilizes the natural consequences in communication situations to improve communication skill in handicapped children.