For children with developmental disabilities and little or no functional speech, the effect of
augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions on the development of …

Curriculum content is an essential component of the field of special education for students
with moderate and severe disabilities. This study updates the twenty-year curriculum content …

Second, AAC is a multidisciplinary field in which individuals with complex communication
needs and their families, along with computer programmers, educators, engineers, linguists …

For years the text of choice for developing excellence as a teacher of K–12 students with
moderate and severe disabilities, this clearly written work has now been revised and …

This article was written as a response to Ayres, Lowrey, Douglas, and Sievers (2011) who
commented on the degree to which promoting the teaching of functional skills had a higher …

This study reviewed published literature to determine the level of evidence for using shared
story reading to promote literacy. Shared story reading was defined as a practice used to …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a modified system of least intrusive
prompts on text-dependent listening comprehension for four middle-school-aged students …

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a multicomponent early literacy curriculum that
included phonics and phonemic awareness in comparison to a sight word approach. A total …

Almost nothing is known about the capacity of minimally verbal students with autism to
develop literacy skills. Shared reading is a regular practice in early education settings and is …

This study investigated the effects of a peer-delivered system of least prompts intervention
and adapted grade-level science read-alouds on correct listening comprehension …