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Peer reviewedSack, Sara H.; McLean, Lee K. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1997
Discusses the importance of teaching communication skills to individuals with severe disabilities and reviews the development and evaluation of Developing Communicative Interactions, a data-based staff training program that supports the development of a prescribed set of interaction skills by interacting communication partners. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Download full textArthur, Michael; Butterfield, Nancy – 1993
This paper reports on a statewide project in New South Wales, Australia, in which 241 teachers of students with moderate or severe disabilities responded to a survey concerning their needs and concerns in the area of communication interventions. A large number of teachers expressed a need for support in assessment, programming, and instructional…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSilliman, Elaine R.; And Others – Topics in Language Disorders, 1993
This article describes the communication development program of a cooperative association of 55 Illinois school districts, which provides special education services for children and adolescents with low incidence disabilities including severe communication disorders. It examines the program's philosophy, principles, and practices; its authentic…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Evaluation Methods, Performance Based Assessment
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Trace Center. – 1976
The report details the results of a research and development program on communication aids for the education of the non-vocal severely handicapped. Much of the information in the report was prepared so that it could stand alone, and is in the form of individual papers, reports, and a sourcebook. The documents are divided into three sections: (1)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Skills, Educational Media
Bochner, Sandra; And Others – 1988
Guidelines for assessing the current language skills of a language-delayed child and increasing the child's level of communicative competence are provided, based on experience at the Environmental Language Intervention Project at Macquarie University's Special Education Centre in Australia. The program is organized around five sequentially ordered…
Descriptors: Children, Class Activities, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Goetz, Lori; And Others – 1987
This report of a conference session dealing with recreation and leisure activities for people with deaf-blindness and other profound multiple disabilities contains three papers and a working group report. The title paper by Lori Goetz reviews "model indicators" for recreation and leisure educational programming with individuals who have severe and…
Descriptors: Adults, Advocacy, Communication Skills, Deaf Blind
Janney, Rachel – 1989
The case study is designed to be used with the inservice training program developed by the Child-Centered Inservice Training and Technical Assistance Network (Syracuse, New York), which provides services to professional and paraprofessional personnel working with students with severe disabilities receiving their education in regular education…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification
Somerton-Fair, Ellen; Turner, Keith D. – 1979
The guide provides information on four sequences in the instruction of severely and profoundly handicapped students. The Curriculum Assessment Guide produces an overview of the student's skill development in input modes (tactile, auditory, and visual development); output modes (gross motor and fine motor); activities of daily living…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills, Diagnostic Teaching
Blackstone, Sarah W. – 1992
This training module is part of a series that provides a basic introduction to using assistive technology with young children (ages 2 to 7) who have severe disabilities in more than one area of development. This module focuses on technology that gives children another way to communicate when speaking is difficult or impossible. The module presents…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Techniques
PDF pending restorationPerlman, Joseph; Stober, Marvin – 1976
Provided is a selected review of research on the education and training of the severely to profoundly mentally retarded which was reported in academic and professional publications in the years 1969 - 1975. Sections present bibliographic information and annotations for approximately 164 citations in the following eight research categories (sample…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Discrimination Learning
