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Download full textGamradt, J. E.; Gunderson, T. – 1989
This guide offers a practical approach to construction of and interaction training of communication aids for use by individuals with disabilities. The guide covers: communication board design and construction; use of the computer as a communication tool; orthographically based communication systems; guidelines for selecting vocabulary for the…
Descriptors: Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Design Requirements
Peer reviewedWarrick, Anne – Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), 1988
This paper presents an ecological framework for observing and evaluating the influence of society's attitudes toward disablement on the development of sociocommunicative skills in individuals using augmentative and alternative communication systems. Reviewed are the role of remediators, intervention issues, and directions for future research.…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedCalculator, Stephen N. – Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), 1988
Many severely disabled individuals who rely on augmentative and alternative communication systems experience difficulties using newly acquired communication skills in settings different from those introduced in the instructional context and with different conversational partners. Methods of promoting functional communication skills are addressed,…
Descriptors: Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Educational Environment
Light, Janice C. – 1996
This report discusses the objectives and outcomes of a project that investigated the use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems by students with severe communication disabilities. The first objective of the project was to conduct five investigations to identify skills that contribute to the communicative competence of students…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders
Peer reviewedLight, Janice; And Others – Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), 1988
This case study presents an assessment-intervention model for augmentative and alternative communication with a head-injured adolescent. The model addresses the client's needs and skills and also provides support and training for caregivers. The case study documents the adolescent's transition through a range of communication systems over a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Caregivers, Case Studies
Jonker, Vera M.; Heim, Margriet J. M. – 1992
The Communicative Development of Toddlers with Cerebral Palsy (COCP) project developed an assessment-intervention program for non-speaking children with cerebral palsy. The goals of the project's Assessment-Intervention protocol are to teach the child to communicate in an appropriate, effective, and efficient way in different situations and with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders
Watson, Joan L. – 1995
This practicum project was designed to improve communication in the kindergarten classroom between regular students and a mainstreamed nonverbal child with cerebral palsy. A target group of 24 pre-kindergartners was exposed to 12 weeks of the intervention which included such strategies as teaching the verbal students how to identify communication…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Classroom Communication
Peer reviewedLocke, Peggy A.; Mirenda, Pat – Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), 1988
An augmentative and alternative communication device was designed for a nonspeaking, blind, severely mentally retarded 11-year-old. The device consisted of a computer-supported expanded keyboard that produced synthetic speech output when tactile symbols were activated. Described are the assessment procedures, instructional procedures, and…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Blindness, Case Studies
