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This expanded edition gives readers practical strategies they can use to realize the benefits of effective communication: less frustration, more control over their lives, and stronger bonds with friends and family.
This book has been replaced by Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities, Second Edition, 978-1-4625-4238-3.
Break down the barriers to successful literacy instruction and empower students with special needs with these insightful tips, tools, and examples.
"This interdisciplinary book critically examines the research on the effectiveness of communication interventions for individuals with severe disabilities. This volume provides the reader with a synthesis of the complex issues related to communication intervention and severe disabilities"--
An essential resource for educators, speech-language pathologists, and parents--and an ideal text for courses that cover literacy and significant disabilities--this book will help you ensure that all students have the reading and writing skills they need to unlock new opportunities and reach their potential.
This book will provide invaluable guidance to current and future education professionals on how to make communication accessible in the classroom for students with severe and multiple disabilities, or other complex health conditions. This will be an important text for teachers, Speech-Language-Pathologists, and other school staff.
This fifth edition of the bestselling and highly regarded textbook on educating students with severe and multiple disabilities--newly revised, thoroughly updated, and streamlined for students--is the comprehensive resource for current and future educators and related services personnel
Students with communication difficulties need skills to communicate functionally in everyday situations, without the usual support and protection from home and school. These skills need to be explicitly taught, to enable them to become confident young adults. Smile Therapy is an innovative therapy designed to equip students with the skills necessary to become responsible individuals who operate at the highest level of independence that their circumstances and condition allow. Teachers and speech and language therapists have always included functional life skills practice in their work with students. Now, for the first time, they can do so using a therapy with a proven method that has demonstrable outcomes. This book is a practical step-by-step resource, designed to guide teachers and SLTs in the delivery of Smile Therapy with students who have communication difficulties due to deafness, specific language impairment, learning difficulties, autism or physical disability. Features: a clear step-by-step approach to preparing, running and evaluating Smile Therapy, with photocopiable resources. clear outcome measures from each module to share with parents, staff, education and health managers.
