Jude Valant, a 19-year-old non-verbal student with severe autism, relies on a communication method called Rapid Prompting ...

Next time you are having a conversation with someone, notice how much of the content is communicated without words. Let’s say your boss calls you to her office, hands you your evaluation report, and ...

Have you ever noticed or been conscious of how often you communicate non-verbally with your partner, business associates, friends, and family? People regularly make assumptions about other people’s ...

My daughter, Dannielle, her husband and Arnie, their 7-year-old golden retriever came home for Memorial Day weekend. Arnie can’t speak a word of English but has a large vocabulary. Words like treat, ...

We are all probably familiar with some form of non-verbal communication or another. It may be the form of communication that you use when you are cut off on the highway and you need to let the driver ...

March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, and we’re talking all month long about how we can all be better advocates for the people with disabilities. Jennifer Hoesing is the Director of ...

Oliver Wendt, a Purdue University assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, demonstrates how the SPEAK all! app allows the user to select images to create a sentence. A version of ...

Communication is the bedrock of human interaction, influencing every facet of our lives — from our personal connections to our professional endeavors. Beyond being a beneficial skill, effective ...

Demand for people with interpersonal skills has been on the rise for decades. Harvard research shows that, over a 30-year period, jobs that require a lot of social interaction grew by 12 percentage ...