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Direct linkRyndak, Diane Lea; Moore, Margaret A.; Orlando, Ann-Marie; Delano, Monica – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2009
The reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act and the No Child Left Behind Act requires that students with extensive support needs have access to, participate in, and make progress on the general curriculum along with their grade-level general education peers. This article suggests that the terms used in this…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Mental Retardation, Special Needs Students
Peer reviewedCafiero, Joanne M. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2001
This article describes a classroom data based, total immersion, augmentative communication intervention with a nonverbal and behaviorally and cognitively challenged adolescent with autism. The use of a natural aided language approach and picture communication boards resulted in increases in communication and positive behaviors and participation in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Autism, Case Studies
Download full textRemington-Gurney, Jane; Crossley, Rosemary – 1990
Facilitated communication is described as a method of training communication partners or facilitators to provide physical assistance to communication aid users, to help them overcome physical and emotional problems in using their aids. In Melbourne (Victoria, Australia), the DEAL (Dignity, Education and Language) Centre has identified 96 people…
Descriptors: Attendants, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedAlpern, Carol Sober – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1992
This article presents a case study of a child with Hunter's syndrome, a genetic disorder often resulting in a degeneration of speech and language functioning and hearing loss. The study demonstrates the typical delay in diagnosis and shows how a team approach can maintain such a child in a regular public school setting. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Disorders, Congenital Impairments
Peer reviewedSementelli, Catherine – Paths of Learning: Options for Families & Communities, 2001
At the Bridge School (Hillsborough, California), children with severe speech and physical disabilities are trained in the use of augmentative and alternative communication technologies, transitioned back to their home school districts, and given continuing support. Outreach and research endeavors keep the broader community informed and educated…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders, Communication Research
Peer reviewedFlaxbeard, Richard; Toomey, Wendy – British Journal of Special Education, 1987
The difficulties experienced by deaf parents' hearing children (n=10) as they approached puberty were studied and compensatory education programs sought for them through residential and regular schools. The children exhibited conversational difficulties, memory problems, reasoning difficulties, and poor language comprehension. Children's…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescent Development, Communication Disorders, Compensatory Education
