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"Feeling Our Way around in the Dark" AAC Team Collaboration in the Context of Service Change: Special Education Teachers' Perceptions
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Sinead Moore Ramirez; Yvonne Lynch – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
Team collaboration is an essential component of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) services that directly impacts outcomes for students in special schools. Given the central role of the Special Education Teacher (SET) in the AAC team, there is a need to explore and understand SETs' perceptions to support effective team collaboration.…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Teacher Collaboration
The Development of a Core Key Word Signing Vocabulary (Lámh) to Facilitate Communication with Children with Down Syndrome in the First Year of Mainstream Primary School in Ireland
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Frizelle, Pauline; Lyons, Caoimhe – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2022
Key word signing, an unaided augmentative, and alternative communication (AAC) system is commonly used by children with Down syndrome who attend mainstream primary schools. To ensure the successful use of key word signing within a mainstream environment, a meaningful, contextually appropriate sign vocabulary must be available to all communication…
Descriptors: Young Children, Down Syndrome, Students with Disabilities, Teachers