Agaliotis Ioannis, Kalyva Efrosini
University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Street, P.O. Box 1591, 540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Res Dev Disabil. 2008 Jan-Feb;29(1):1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2006.09.002. Epub 2006 Oct 10.
Many children with learning disabilities (LD) face problems in their nonverbal communication, which constitutes an important component of their social skills. This study explores the frequency of nonverbal initiations and responses of 36 children with LD and 36 children without LD matched for age and gender, who were observed for 40 min during the break. Younger and older children with and without LD did not differ significantly in their nonverbal responses, but there was a statistically significant difference in terms of younger children's nonverbal initiations. Younger children with LD exhibited significantly fewer nonverbal initiations than younger children without LD. Findings are discussed and suggestions are made for further research.
许多有学习障碍的儿童在非言语交流方面面临问题，而非言语交流是他们社交技能的重要组成部分。本研究探讨了36名有学习障碍的儿童和36名年龄及性别匹配的无学习障碍儿童在课间休息期间40分钟内非言语发起和回应的频率。有学习障碍和无学习障碍的年龄较小和较大的儿童在非言语回应方面没有显著差异，但在年龄较小儿童的非言语发起方面存在统计学上的显著差异。有学习障碍的年龄较小儿童的非言语发起明显少于无学习障碍的年龄较小儿童。对研究结果进行了讨论，并提出了进一步研究的建议。
