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Tiantian Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Background: Accurate and meaningful assessment of language and communication skills to monitor child progress is the cornerstone to appropriate intervention for children with complex communication needs (CCN; Brady et al., 2016; Rowland et al., 2012). Despite this need, there is a lack of high quality and validated measurement of young children…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Language Skills, Communication Skills, Young Children
Johnston, Susan S.; Reichle, Joe; Feeley, Kathleen M.; Jones, Emily A. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2012
With more children and young adults with severe disabilities in today's general education classrooms, SLPs and other professionals must be ready to support their students' communication skills with effective AAC. They'll get the proven strategies they need with this intervention guide from top AAC experts, ideal for use as an in-service…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Intervention, Quality of Life, Disabilities
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Rowland, Charity – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2011
Many children born with severe and multiple disabilities have complex communication needs and may use no speech or only minimal speech to communicate. Meaningful assessment of their expressive skills to identify communication strengths along a developmental trajectory is an essential first step toward appropriate intervention. This article…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Databases, Communication Skills, Severe Disabilities
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Hill, Katya – Topics in Language Disorders, 2004
The goal of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is the most effective communication possible. Speech-language pathologists are obligated to collect data, measure communication, and apply the principles of evidence-based practice (EBP). This article presents a model for EBP that represents how collecting and evaluating performance data…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
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Light, Janice C.; Roberts, Barbara; Dimarco, Rosemarie; Greiner, Nina – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1998
Discusses the use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to enhance comprehension and expression of people with autism. A theoretical model for AAC assessment and intervention is presented and illustrated with a case study of a 6-year-old boy with autism and severe expressive and receptive language impairments. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Autism, Case Studies, Communication Skills
Remmel-Gehm, Mary T. – 1997
This report discusses the outcomes of a study that investigated how visual media would affect the communication skills of a 13-year-old nonverbal girl with cerebral palsy and whether the use of visual media would provide documentation of higher cognitive functioning. For the study, the subject used three different tools to add visual information…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Cerebral Palsy, Cognitive Ability
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 1995
This final report describes activities and accomplishments of Project EPIC (Effective Partner Interaction in the Community), a 3-year federally supported project in Georgia to facilitate the establishment and implementation of effective educational practices with students having deaf-blindness. The project was designed to expand students' present…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Skills, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Deaf Blind
Dyer, Kathleen; Luce, Stephen C. – 1996
This guide presents strategies to teach students with mental retardation to request their preferences, protest non-preferred activities, and clarify misunderstandings. The strategies were field tested with more than 200 children and adults in community, residential, vocational, and educational settings. Suggestions are included for instructing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Abudarham, Samuel, Ed.; Hurd, Angela, Ed. – 2002
This book for speech and language therapists explains interventions for increasing the communication skills of adolescents and adults who have learning disabilities or mild mental retardation. The book provides a British perspective, noting how speech language therapy can contribute to educational requirements such as the British National…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Ancillary School Services, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
McEvoy, Mary; Reichle, Joe – 1995
This federally funded project was designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a best practices inservice model to train teachers to provide services in least restrictive environments for preschool children with emotional/behavioral disorders. Through collaborative planning among the University of Minnesota and selected Minnesota public schools,…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Behavior Disorders, College School Cooperation, Communication Skills