AAC Strategies for Individuals with Moderate to Severe Disabilities

AAC Strategies for Individuals with Moderate to Severe Disabilities

AAC Strategies for Individuals with Moderate to Severe Disabilities

  • Format: Paperback | 416 pages
  • Dimensions: 173.99 x 265.43 x 21.59mm | 725.75g
  • Publication date: 03 Nov 2011
  • Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: Baltimore, United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN10: 1598572067
  • ISBN13: 9781598572063
  • Bestsellers rank: 362,297

With more children and young adults with severe disabilities in today's general education classrooms, SLPs and other professionals must be ready to support their students' communication skills with effective AAC. They'll get the proven strategies they need with this intervention guide from top AAC experts, ideal for use as an in-service professional development resource or a highly practical text students will keep and use long after class is over.

Essential for SLPs, OTs, PTs, educators, and other professionals in school settings, this book helps readers establish a beginning functional communicative repertoire for learners with severe disabilities. Professionals will start with an in-depth intervention framework, including a guide to AAC modes and technologies, variables to consider when selecting AAC, and how AAC research can be used to support practice. Then they'll get explicit, evidence-based instructional strategies they'll use to help children and young adults.

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