The smiLE therapy into approach is effective withskills the communication skills and confidence to interact with English speakers in targeted situations. Anecdotal findings suggest that some carry-over a similar situation in hadproviding occurreddeaf andchildren that trained were maintained. No differences were found in the untrained task, suggesting that the learnt skills did not generalize. In the trained task, the pupils’ interactions improved significantly. Their performances in a trained and an untrained communication situation were compared pre- and post-therapy. Sixteen severely and profoundly deaf primary school pupils (7.2–11.0 years old) received an 11-week programme of therapy. This study evaluates the effectiveness of smiLE in helping deaf pupils develop their ability to make successful requests in a specific communication situation and whether this generalized to another communication situation. This article describes a therapy called ‘Strategies and Measurable Interaction in Live English’ (smiLE Schamroth and Threadgill, 2007a), an approach used to teach deaf children skills to become successful communicators in real-life situations. Many profoundly deaf signers have difficulty communicating with hearing people. Rosalind Rosali nd Herman, Her man, Tim Pring City University London, UK Sherryn Alton Central London Community Healthcare, NHS, London, UK > Version of Record - > OnlineFirst Version of Record - What is This?ĭownloaded from from at HINARI on August 30, 2012ĭeveloping communication skills in deaf primary school pupils: Introducing and evaluating the smiLE approachĬhild Language Teaching Teaching and Therapy 27(3) 255–267 © The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: sagepub. journalsReprints.nav Reprints.nav Permissions.nav Permissions: Permissions: Citations: /content/27/3/ 3/ Published by: Additional services and information for Child Language Teaching and Therapy can be found at: Email Alerts: Alerts: Subscriptions: Subscriptions: Reprints: Reprints. Developing communication communication skills in deaf primary school pupils: Introducing and evaluating the smiLE approach Sherryn Alton, Rosalind Herman and Tim Pring Child Language Teaching and Therapy 2011 27: 255 originally published online 12 January 2011 DOI: 10.1177/0265659010381695 The online version of this article can be found found at: pub.com/content/27/3/2 ntent/27/3/255 55
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