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Quick questions or quandaries?
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Announcements

• Please turn in your reading questions for Mundy
  Willoughby.
• There are reading questions for Adamson Chance
  due tomorrow.
• First draft (rough draft) of the final essay is
  due on Monday. Use this as an opportunity to
  organize the information we have worked with in
  the first half of the semester, as well as
  looking forward to the final two weeks of the
  course. Don't forget that we will use part of
  class time on Friday (tomorrow) to work on and
  share your progress on the drafts.

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Todays Topic

• Gestures, eye gaze, and attention

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Small Group Activity 1

• Using your readings from yesterday (Iverson
  Thal) and today, come up with a timeline for the
  development of early communication, including
  gestures and eye gaze.

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Quick Write

• How do eye gaze, gestures, and the coordination
  of attention to objects seem to be related? What
  might be some implications for this relationship
  for children with sensory impairments?

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Developing Coordinated Attention

• 1. Attending to social partners looking at
  people who draw their attention.

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Developing Coordinated Attention, cont.

• 2. Supported joint engagement looking at an
  object which caregiver then also attends to.

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Developing Coordinated Attention, cont.

• 3. Coordinated joint engagement Switching
  attention between caregiver and object they are
  both attending to.

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Videoclips

• What examples of gesture, eye gaze and joint
  attention are demonstrated or not by the children
  with severe disabilities in these clips?

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Large Group DiscussionThe authors propose that
nonverbal joint attention may involve more
affective sharing than nonverbal requests. How
might this be or not be the case for children
with severe disabilities?
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Small Group Activity 2How does the selective
attunement of caregivers influence the
development of early communicators. List pros
and cons.
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Looking ahead

• Coordinated attention and pulling together the
  fundamental concepts explored in the first two
  weeks

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Please take a minute for the minute paper.