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Judge, Sharon; Floyd, Kim; Wood-Fields, Colleen – Infants and Young Children, 2010
Assistive technology offers infants and toddlers with disabilities a set of tools to assist in achieving developmental goals while interacting with objects, materials, adults, and other children in their environment. This article focuses on assistive technology devices that can promote young children's participation in activities and routines in…
Descriptors: Play, Early Intervention, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Toddlers
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Bradley, Lee Ann; Krakowski, Brandi; Thiessen, Ann – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2008
The development of language and literacy is the foundation for all other learning. This statement is the guiding philosophy at the Iowa School for the Deaf (ISD). Teachers at ISD believe that intensive, highly structured early intervention and education work best to support cognitive and communication development in their students. However, little…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Early Intervention, Autism, Hearing Impairments
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Johnston, Susan S.; McDonnell, Andrea P.; Nelson, Catherine; Magnavito, Angie – Journal of Early Intervention, 2003
Three children (ages 3-4) with disabilities were successfully taught functional communication behaviors using select augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices. Acquisition of AAC behaviors resulted from an intervention strategy that included creating communicative opportunities, providing a peer or teacher model of the behavior,…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Skills, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education