Using Badges to Increase Initiations of Children with Severe Disabilities in a Play Setting.

Jolly, Ann C.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ464090

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1993

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Using Badges to Increase Initiations of Children with Severe Disabilities in a Play Setting.

Jolly, Ann C.; And Others

Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), v18 n1 p46-51 Spr 1993

An intervention with two nonverbal elementary students with severe/profound mental retardation involved training the students to use badges showing play activities and then implementing use of the badges in a free play situation with nondisabled age-appropriate peers. Increased use of play organizers, initiations, and sharing resulted. (DB)

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention, Peer Relationship, Personal Autonomy, Pictorial Stimuli, Play, Severe Mental Retardation, Social Integration

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Audience: Researchers; Practitioners

Language: English

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