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Muttiah, Nimisha; Drager, Kathryn D. R.; Beale, Bethany; Bongo, Hailey; Riley, Lindsay – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2022
Young children with complex communication needs are often severely restricted in their ability to communicate and develop language skills. A major barrier preventing these children from accessing communication is a lack of appropriate means to communicate. The present study investigated the implementation of nonelectronic visual scene displays…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Pictorial Stimuli, Preschool Children, Semantics
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McLeod, Angela – Education, 2022
Problem: Upon their initial school entrance, some children remain silent and devoid of social interaction for the entire school day. A small group of children are not merely "very shy" but exhibit features of selective mutism, a pervasive social and communication disorder that is sometimes associated with anxiety. For months, these…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Pictorial Stimuli, Anxiety, Communication Problems
Kelsey F. Burren – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Matching related stimuli is a foundational skill upon which a wide variety of critical repertoires are constructed. For learners with complex communication needs, including many children with autism, learned relations between pictorial stimuli and their referents are the basis for communication (Andzik et al., 2017; Crowe et al., 2021).…
Descriptors: Generalization, Pictorial Stimuli, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Problems
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Bhana, Naima; McNaughton, David; Raulston, Tracy; Ousley, Ciara – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Providing support to a child with complex communication needs during shared storybook reading activities can be challenging. Storybooks often contain specific vocabulary items (e.g., character names) that are key to conversations about the story but would be difficult to add and of limited long-term use in an augmentative and alternative…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Childrens Literature, Books, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Alrusayni, Norah – Online Submission, 2017
This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of using the high-tech speech-generating device with Proloquo2Go app to reduce echolalic utterances in a student with autism during conversational speech. After observing that the iPad device with several apps was used by the students and that it served as a communication device, language…
Descriptors: Autism, Assistive Technology, Behavior Problems, Interviews
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Ganz, Jennifer B.; Mason, Rose A.; Goodwyn, Fara D.; Boles, Margot B.; Heath, Amy K.; Davis, John L. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and complex communication needs often rely on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) as a means of functional communication. This meta-analysis investigated how individual characteristics moderate effectiveness of three types of aided AAC: the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS),…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Communication Problems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Naylor, Anna C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Individuals who have difficult-to-understand speech and minimal reading skills are often limited to icon or picture-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies. However, basic phonemic awareness skills could make strategies such as alphabet supplementation, in which the speaker selects the first letter of words they are…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Problems, Speech Impairments, Communication Strategies
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Conklin, Carl G.; Mayer, G. Roy – Remedial and Special Education, 2011
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of "Picture Exchange Communication System" (PECS) training, using a multiple baseline design on the independent initiations of three adults with developmental disabilities and severe communication deficits. All participants increased their independent initiations, although at different…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Behavior Problems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Adults
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Andersen, Lauren E. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2010
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological disorder that manifests itself within an individual through cognitive, social, and academic deficits. As is true for all spectrum disorders, each individual may experience a range of deficits with varying severity. Many students with autism spectrum disorder experience difficulty in some area of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Pictorial Stimuli, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
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Kreiner, Janice; Flexer, Robert – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2009
The purpose of this study was to develop and to evaluate the Preferences for Leisure Attributes (PLA) Assessment, a forced-choice computer software program for students with severe disabilities and communication difficulties. In order to determine content validity of the PLA Assessment, four experts in related fields assigned critical attributes…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Developmental Disabilities, Content Validity, Test Validity
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Angermeier, Katie; Schlosser, Ralf W.; Luiselli, James K.; Harrington, Caroline; Carter, Beth – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2008
Research on graphic symbol learning suggests that symbols with a greater visual resemblance to their referents (greater iconicity) are more easily learned. The iconicity hypothesis has not yet been explored within the intervention protocol of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). Within the PECS protocol, participants do not point to a…
Descriptors: Children, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Outcomes of Treatment, Program Effectiveness