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Biggs, Elizabeth E.; Carter, Erik W.; Bumble, Jennifer L.; Barnes, Kelli; Mazur, Erica L. – Exceptional Children, 2018
Educators need effective ways to build the communication skills of students learning to use aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and support their interactions with peers. This study used a multiple-probe-across-participants design to evaluate the effectiveness of a paraprofessional-facilitated peer network intervention to (a)…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Skills, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Moore, Sondra; Rettig, Michael A. – Online Submission, 2009
Students that use augmentative communication often have a hard time breaking into conversations, initiating conversations and then being able to sustain a conversation. Students that use augmentative communication (ACC) need training in not only the use of the machine but in social communication rules, and in strategies on how to bypass…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Speech Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Questioning Techniques
Whalen, Christina, Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2009
Generalization is the key to effective autism intervention--when children can apply new skills across settings, they'll make broad, long-term improvements in behavior and social communication. The first how-to guide to generalization is finally here! Practical and reader-friendly, this is the book that helps professionals take today's most popular…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Parent Education, Generalization