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Sofia Benson-Goldberg; Karen Erickson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This scoping review aims to characterize the body of literature addressing literacy interventions involving young children (ages 2--8 years) who use or would benefit from aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Method: A systematic search was conducted in six databases. The search yielded 33 intervention studies.…
Descriptors: Literacy, Research, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Young Children
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Lorenzo Desideri; Giulio Lancioni; Massimiliano Malavasi; Arianna Gherardini; Lisa Cesario – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2021
One of the main objectives for people with intellectual disability (with or without other disabilities) is the ability to perform multistep activities (e.g. preparing a sandwich) without external help from a caregiver. This paper provides a review of studies that evaluated technology systems to teach or support people with intellectual and other…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Activities, Disabilities, Research
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Fjeldvang, Ragnhild Therese; Nordaas, Marit Giske; von Tetzchner, Stephen; Stadskleiv, Kristine – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2023
Individuals who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) comprise a heterogeneous group, but all need follow-up to assure the appropriateness of implemented interventions. To enable this, outcome measures such as the Family Impact of Assistive Technology Scale for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (FIATS-AAC) may be used.…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Intervention, Assistive Technology, Foreign Countries
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W. C. Cheung; H. Meadan; H. W. Yang – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2020
Researchers have established a link between motor and social development. Power mobility devices (PMDs) can impact the social skills of children who are unable to move independently. The purpose of this systematic review was to explore the evidence on PMD interventions on social skills outcomes of young children with disabilities (CWD) and to…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Mobility, Intervention, Assistive Technology
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Dispenza, Franco – Journal of Career Development, 2021
A narrative literature review was conducted with the intention of providing practitioners with foundational knowledge regarding the career development trajectory of persons with disabilities (PWD). The author selected scholarship from various disciplines including rehabilitation, psychology, and special education. In the article, the author…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Career Development, Disabilities, Barriers
Emperador-Garnace, Xenia Ribaya – Online Submission, 2018
This study presents a systematic literature review focusing on the Interrelationship of Language and the Brain and Language Disorders in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) based on a number of published researches in several refereed international journals available in various online databases. A repertory grid was utilized to plot…
Descriptors: Brain, Language Impairments, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Literature Reviews
Walte, Samantha; Brown, Christerralyn; Wallace, Theresa – Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education, 2017
The National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention (NCLII), a consortium funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), prepares special education leaders to become experts in research on intensive intervention for students with disabilities who have persistent and severe academic (e.g., reading and math) and behavioral…
Descriptors: Intervention, Special Education, Prompting, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Pampoulou, Eliada; Theodorou, Eleni; Petinou, Kakia – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2018
Whilst augmentative and alternative communication has been used for over sixty years across many countries, in Cyprus it remains underdeveloped. The current study seeks to investigate the current AAC practices in Cyprus. Data were collected through electronically distributed questionnaires to all registered speech and language therapists (n =…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Problems, Disabilities
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Giaconi, Catia; Bianco, Noemi Del – Research on Education and Media, 2017
The purpose of this paper was to analyse the core of the quality of life, intended as a complex construct with specific and transversal features. The approach to this issue, by linking it to the great emergency of disability in adulthood, pushes the analysis into deep conceptual pedagogical reflections, which lead the authors' initial reflections…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Quality of Life, Intervention, Aging (Individuals)
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Cullen, Jennifer M.; Alber-Morgan, Sheila R. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2015
Attaining proficiency with daily living skills is necessary for increasing the independent functioning of adolescents and adults with disabilities. Research demonstrates the positive effects of teaching individuals with disabilities to use various technologies to independently self-prompt their daily living tasks. A literature search of technology…
Descriptors: Prompting, Daily Living Skills, Adolescents, Adults
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Andzik, Natalie R.; Cannella-Malone, Helen I.; Sigafoos, Jeff – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2016
Although functional communication training (FCT) is an effective intervention for increasing appropriate forms of communicative behaviors and decreasing inappropriate forms of communication (i.e., challenging behavior) in students with disabilities, its effectiveness might depend to some extent on the expertise of the interventionist. The purpose…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Communication Skills, Intervention, Intellectual Disability
Chang, Wen-hsuan; Rusher, Dana – National Technical Assistance Center on Transition, 2018
Students with disabilities experience higher unemployment, attend postsecondary environments less often, and engage less in their communities after graduating from high school compared to their peers without disabilities (Newman, Wagner, Knokey, Marder, Nagle, Shaver, & Schwarting, 2011). In middle school, young adolescents with disabilities…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Transitional Programs, Middle School Students, Disabilities
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Savage, Melissa N. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2014
Some students with disabilities develop a dependence on others for support and can benefit from self-management strategies to increase independence. Self-operated auditory prompting systems are an effective self-management intervention used to increase independence for students with disabilities while continuing to provide the support that they…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Prompting, Disabilities, Cues
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Jones, Vita L.; Hinesmon-Matthews, Lezlee J. – Computers in the Schools, 2014
Often the consideration of assistive technology devices and services during the individualized education program (IEP) process is overlooked. Because the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) authorized this consideration, IEP team members must be keenly aware of the importance they hold in providing this valuable input. Thus, IEP…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Disabilities, Individualized Education Programs, Student Needs
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Shih, Ching-Hsiang; Wang, Shu-Hui; Chang, Man-Ling; Kung, Ssu-Yun – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The latest studies have adopted software technology to turn the battery-free wireless mouse into a high performance object location detector using a newly developed object location detection program (OLDP). This study extended OLDP functionality to assess whether two patients recovering from cerebral vascular accidents would be able to actively…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Computer Software, Disabilities, Assistive Technology
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