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Direct linkJamie B. Boster; Ursula M. Findlen; Kevin Pitt; John W. McCarthy – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
Children with complex communication needs often have multiple disabilities including visual impairments that impact their ability to interact with aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems. Just as the field benefited from a consideration of visual cognitive neuroscience in construction of visual displays, an exploration of…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Multiple Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Sarah Ivy; Mary Frances Hanline; Audrey Robbins – Young Exceptional Children, 2024
The purpose of this article is to describe procedures for a team approach to implementing a tangible symbol communication system (TSCS) to support communication skill development of young children with multiple/severe disabilities (MSD). The authors suggest that implementation of a TSCS is a process that includes (a) assessment of child…
Descriptors: Young Children, Multiple Disabilities, Severe Disabilities, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Horn, Eva; Kang, Jean – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2012
Young children with multiple disabilities have unique needs and challenges. Many of these young children struggle to communicate their wants and needs, to freely move their body to access and engage their world, and to learn abstract concepts and ideas. Professionals and families working together must identify the individual supports each child…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Young Children, Early Intervention, Student Needs
Download full textShuler-Woodard, Dee – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2009
The youngest deaf and hard of hearing children with disabilities in Colorado can now participate more fully in the world around them thanks to funding from grants solicited through the Early Education Department at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. The grants enable the children, from birth to age 3, to overcome their physical…
Descriptors: Deafness, Partial Hearing, Multiple Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Gamradt, Julie; And Others – 1994
This paper summarizes the background, staffing, philosophy, participants, methods, and conclusions of the Case Studies on Facilitated Communication Project, which examined the use of facilitated communication (FC) with seven adult females, all with mental retardation and other disabilities. Information is provided on the development of the FC…
Descriptors: Adults, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Case Studies, Check Lists
Goldware, Marjorie; Silver, Marsha – 1998
This paper discusses issues central to communicative/cognitive development in children with visual impairments who also have other disabilities, and presents a multi-modal model of augmentative alternative communication delivery that includes tangible symbols, language input strategies, voice output communication devices, software programs with…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Cognitive Development
