Introduction to augmentative and alternative communication: sign teaching and the use of communication aids for children, adolescents and adults with developmental disorders
By: von Tetzchner, Stephen.
Contributor(s): Martinsen, Harald.
Publisher: London Whurr Publishers 2000Edition: 2nd.Description: xii, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 1861561873.Subject(s): COMMUNICATION | COMMUNICATION AIDS | ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION | SIGN LANGUAGE | LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION | DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES | SPEECH DISORDERS | NONVERBAL CHILDREN | NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION | ASSESSMENTItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Discusses factors that are important when choosing communication systems, assessment strategies, environmental adaptation, and the principles for teaching comprehension and use of such communication systems to individuals with different disabilities, including motor impairments, learning disabilities and autism.
Introduction|Augmentative and alternative communication|Communication aids|Children, adolescents and adults in need of augmentative and alternative communication|Assessment|The teaching situation|Teaching strategies|Choosing the first signs|Further vocabulary development|Multi-sign utterances|Conversational skills|The language environment|Overview of case studies
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Probably intended for therapists so fairly slow reading, but well structured so that you can find information relevant to oyour child's learning quite easily.
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Of limited use to me as a teacher
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Looks great but ran out of time to explore as thoroughly as I would have liked