Synopses & Reviews
Teaching is a partnership between you and your students. And to make that partnership work, you need to facilitate good communication with them, whatever disabilities they may have. You'll do just that with the help of this informative and practical text, where you'll find strategies for assessing your students' communication skills. You'll learn how to determine their needs according to the expectations of the school environment, and you'll acquire intervention techniques for promoting alternative forms of communication such as gestures, body language, signing, and using both objects and pictorial AAC devices. Through the book's numerous examples of peer-student interaction, you'll be better equipped to encourage social development across the age span. Designed specifically for the inclusive classroom, these ideas work because they come from those who know--teachers, speech-language pathologists, parents, teaching assistants, and students.
Synopsis
Good teaching begins with good communication. And educators need to know how to facilitate good communication with all of their students, whatever their disabilities. In this easy-to-read text, teachers will
-- find the newest strategies for assessing the communication skills of students with very complex and multiple disabilities
-- learn how to determine students' needs and put them on the track to school success
-- assist students with peer interaction in typical settings and across the age span
-- acquire intervention of techniques to promote alternative forms of communication such as gestures, body language, signing, and using both objects and pictorial AAC devices
Designed specifically for the inclusive classroom, these ideas work because they come from those who know -- teachers, speech-language pathologists, parents, teaching assistants, and students.
Synopsis
Educators need to know how to facilitate good communication with all of their students, whatever their disabilities. In this easy-to-read text, teachers will
- find strategies for assessing the communication skills of students with very complex and multiple disabilities
- learn how to determine students' needs and put them on the track to school success
- assist students with peer interaction in typical settings and across the age span
- acquire intervention techniques to promote alternative forms of communication