INTRODUCTION Non-verbal communication skills, also called sign language or silent language, include all behaviors performed in the presence of others or perceived either consciously or unconsciously. The main aim of this review article was to determine the effect of the teachers' non-verbal communication on success in teaching using the findings of the studies conducted on the relationship betw...

Non-verbal communication incorporating visual, audio, and contextual information is important to make sense of and navigate the social world. Individuals who have trouble with social situations often have difficulty recognizing these sorts of non-verbal social signals. In this article, we propose a training tool NOCOA+ (Non-verbal COmmuniation for Autism plus) that uses utterances in visual and...

study the performance of nurses communication with patients in special education and non- teaching hospital, urmia     hemmati maslakpak m [1] * , sheikhbaklu m [2] , baghaei r [3] , sheikhi n [4]     received: 21 dec, 2011 accepted: 4 feb, 2012     abstract   background & aims : acceptable communication performance is essential for safe, effective, and suitable care . proper communication is e...

It has been suggested that since verbal communication (i.e., using human language to represent the world and pass on information) can be seen as a subsystem of a larger system of human communication, it therefore exhibits all features of an open communication system (cf. Katz and Kahn 1966). The following characteristics provide an insight into the nature of ́the speechmaking system ́ from this p...

Abstract The aim of intercultural translation is to communicate. Communication is acted via verbal as well as visual means. The interaction of verbal and visual means of communication makes a set of complex situations which demand special attention in translation. One context in which the interaction of visual and verbal elements gets vital importance is children’s picture books. Color is an in...

† Escola Superior de Saúde da Universidade de Aveiro (ESSUA), Aveiro, Portugal; e-mail: [email protected] ‡ Escola Superior de Saúde da Universidade de Aveiro (ESSUA), and Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro (IEETA), Aveiro, Portugal; e-mail: [email protected] †† School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; e-mail: [email protected] 2009 International N...