Teaching Communication Book Use to a High School Student Using a Milieu Approach

A study combined communication book training, a milieu approach, and systematic vocabulary selection to teach a nonspeaking adolescent with mental retardation to communicate in three settings. Results indicated rapid learning of communication book use in meal preparation and employment training and...

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Published inJournal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 175 - 179
Main Authors Rodi, Michael S, Hughes, Carolyn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.09.2000
Subjects
Adolescents
Communication Skills
Cues
Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal Competence
Language Acquisition
Mental Retardation
Milieu Therapy
Pictorial Stimuli
Secondary Education
Training Methods
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Summary:A study combined communication book training, a milieu approach, and systematic vocabulary selection to teach a nonspeaking adolescent with mental retardation to communicate in three settings. Results indicated rapid learning of communication book use in meal preparation and employment training and more delayed increased in small group communication. (Contains seen references.) (Author/CR)
ISSN:0274-9483
0749-1425
DOI:10.2511/rpsd.25.3.175