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A Situated Pragmatics Approach for Supporting Children with Severe Communication Disorders.
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Duchan, Judith Felson – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
This article proposes the application of a situated pragmatics (also known as community-based training or activity-based intervention) approach to intervention with children having severe communication disorders. Models for this approach have been developed by the World Health Organization and specialists in alternative and augmentative…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
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Siegel-Causey, Ellin; Mirenda, Pat – Journal of Special Education, 1997
Two special educators comment on an article in the same issue by Joe Reichle entitled "Communication Intervention with Persons Who Have Several Disabilities." Siegel-Causey stresses the implications of advances in augmentative and alternative communication and training for broader use of existing communication skills. Mirenda supports combining…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Educational Practices