Communication Interventions for Individuals With Severe Disabilities : Exploring Research Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Published by Brookes Publishing, 2016
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- Title
- Communication Interventions for Individuals With Severe Disabilities : Exploring Research Challenges and Opportunities
- Author
- Sevcik, Rose A., Ph.D. (EDT); Romski, Maryann, Ph.D. (EDT); Abbeduto, Leonard (FRW)
- Publisher
- Brookes Publishing
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1598573632
- ISBN 13
- 9781598573633
Shaped by a conference of The National Joint Committee on the Communication Needs of Persons with Severe Disabilities (NJC), this interdisciplinary book includes contributions from more than 30 top scholars from diverse fields, including psychology, special education, and speech language pathology. Each chapter gives readers a brief summary of research studies on a key intervention topic, insights on research design and measurement challenges, thoughts on future advances, and real-world clinical and educational recommendations. Essential for the reference libraries of educators and professionals, this book offers powerful insights about today's communication interventions-and sets a clear agenda for tomorrow's groundbreaking research
Topics Included:
- prelinguistic communication intervention for young children with intellectual disabilities
- challenging behavior and communicative alternatives
- interventions for children who are deafblind
- augmented language interventions for children with severe disabilities
- parents as partners in communication intervention
- the role of cultural, ethnic, and linguistic differences
- targeted and phenotypic communication interventions for children with Down syndrome or ASD
- issues related to research study design, including sample size, the effectiveness of randomized controlled trials, and integration of single-case and group designs
- assessment and measurement of communication and language skills in individuals with severe intellectual disabilities
- and more
The NJC conference was funded by the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders .
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About the Author
MaryAnn Romski, Ph.D., Regents Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Communication Disorders, and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, USA and the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is the Director of the Center for Research on Atypical Development and Learning (CRADL) and a founding member of the Area of Focus on Research on Challenges to Acquiring Language & Literacy (RCALL). Dr. Romski is a certified speech-language pathologist with more than 30 years of clinical experience, a Fellow of American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), and the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC). Her continuously funded research program focuses on the communication development of children with developmental disorders who encounter difficulty speaking, particularly the development and evaluation of computerized communication interventions. Dr. Romski has published 3 books, more than 100 articles and chapters, and has given numerous national and international presentations. She is extending her research in South Africa and China. She serves as Associate Editor for Infants and Young Children and is the past chair of the National Joint Committee (NJC) on the Communication Needs of Individuals with Severe Disabilities and remains AAIDD's representative.
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