CMDS 2500 Communication Disorders in Society, 2 semester hours, Auburn University

Chapter One

• Chapter One-Reading assignment
  
• Chapter One-Outline
  
• Chapter One-Questions

• Resources: Video Tape-American Tongues (approximately 70 minutes)

• Activity: Get a group of three-to-five people together and communicate
  without the spoken or written word. Use no speech or written communication.
  That includes letters, mathematic symbols and numbers.

  Have the group find out as much about each other as possible without using
  spoken or written words. Mimicry, gesturing, facial expression, and drawing
  are allowed. See how much of the following information can be gained from
  the group by posing the following questions (the questions are to be read,
  no words after the question has been presented):

  What is your favorite color?
  What is your favorite food?
  What is your favorite beverage?
  What is your favorite recreational activity?
  What is the name of your hometown and where is it?
  What is your chosen career field?

  See how much you can learn about the others in your group without using
  words, spoken or written. At the end of the activity, write a paragraph
  on how you felt while trying to communicate without words. Did you feel
  any frustration? What did members of your group do to communicate? How
  long did it take to communicate the information? Compare the amount of
  time the exercise took compared to the time it would take to gain the same
  information using spoken communication.