This collection of conference presentation handouts covers various aspects of helping parents of deaf children to become facilitators of conversational skill development. The handouts include: definitions of "pragmatics" and "conversations"; a listing of characteristics of a successful adolescent conversationalist; an illustration and explanation of a conversational speech model (with components of interactive skills, the conversational frame, analysis of context, and communication skills); a discussion guide for parent groups; guides for goal-setting; a list of suggestions for home activities to facilitate conversation; suggestions for conversational topic maintenance and expansion; a self-rating scale to promote conversational self-awareness in adolescents; and a discussion of the value of small talk. (Contains 13 references.) (DB)