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Geist, Lori; Erickson, Karen – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Robust vocabulary instruction is an important part of comprehensive English language arts (ELA) instruction. Vocabulary instruction supports students in learning the meaning of words to build a receptive vocabulary that they can rely on to comprehend the words they read and hear. Many students with significant cognitive disabilities (SCD) and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Students with Disabilities, Severe Intellectual Disability, Receptive Language
Johnston, Susan S.; O'Keeffe, Breda V.; Stokes, Kristen – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2018
The ability to use written language to communicate receptively (i.e., reading) and expressively (i.e., writing) is important in school, work, and independent living. Students who struggle early with reading have difficulty catching up with their peers as they move through school and in academic areas that rely on reading proficiency. Individuals…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Physical Disabilities, Written Language, Reading Instruction
Stuart, Shannon – Advances in Special Education, 2018
This chapter provides evidence-based supports for communication, social skills, and for using restricted patterns of interests and activities educationally for students with autism. Supports for receptive language, expressive language, Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), visual supports, social narratives, and augmentative and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Waugh, Leslie; Bowers, Tiffany; French, Ron – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2007
With the implementation of the inclusion concept in public school classes, the ability of the general physical educator to effectively teach all of his or her students has been tested. This is particularly true with some students who have a receptive language disability (e.g., deaf, traumatic brain injury), an expressive language disability (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Mental Retardation, Learning Disabilities

Chapman, Tammy; Stormont, Melissa; McCathren, Rebecca – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1998
Landau-Kleffner syndrome is characterized by difficulty in receptive or expressive language, abnormal electroencephalograms, and seizures. This article describes the primary and secondary characteristics of children with this syndrome and offers educators a framework for intervention techniques. These include using predictable language, creating…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Congenital Impairments, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language
Lund, Shelley K.; Light, Janice C. – 2001
This report presents the activities, accomplishments, and outcomes of a study of the long-term outcomes of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions with individuals with severe communication disabilities. The study evaluated long-term outcomes for 7 young men (ages 19-23 years) who had used AAC systems for at least 15 years.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders