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"How Can I Help You Get What You Want?": A Communication Strategy for Students with Severe Disabilities.
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Ostrosky, Michaelene M.; Drasgow, Erik; Halle, James W. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1999
Examines ways to facilitate communication by nonverbal students with severe disabilities. Discusses selecting functional communication targets and teachable contexts, facilitating widespread use (generalization), ensuring maintenance of the new communication behavior, and implications for practice. (DB)
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Embedding Augmentative Communication within Early Childhood Classrooms.
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DiCarlo, Cynthia; Banajee, Meher; Stricklin, Sarintha Buras – Young Exceptional Children, 2000
This article first describes various augmentative communication systems including sign language, picture symbols, and voice output communication devices. It then explains ways to embed augmentative communication within four types of early childhood classroom activities: (1) special or planned activities, (2) meal time, (3) circle time, and (4)…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communication Disorders
A Functional Curriculum for Teaching Students with Disabilities. Volume II: Nonverbal and Oral Communication. Third Edition.
Valletutti, Peter J.; And Others – 1996
This second of three manuals providing a functional curriculum for students with disabilities focuses on the development of nonverbal and oral communication skills. An introductory chapter provides an overview of the curriculum and offers guidelines for developing instructional plans for the following two units of study. Unit 1 considers the…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Curriculum