Education - Learning Disabilities, Teaching - Reading & Language, Special Education
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Overview
In engaging, storytelling style, speech-language pathologist Romski and psychologist Sevcik describe how they carried their research from language lab to school and in the process changed the lives of the youth to whom they brought the SAL. A replicable system that fosters naturalistic exchanges between communicative partners using electronic speech-output devices, the SAL extends the power of communication to children otherwise locked out of the world around them. With a new level of vocabulary mastery, students enjoy not only enhanced communicative skills but also higher judgments of competence from both familiar and unfamiliar observers. One award-winning SAL application, Project FACTT (Facilitating Augmentative Communication Through Technology) provides innovative augmentative communication services to school-age children with severe disabilities and is described in detail.Chronicles the process of language learning using the System for Augmenting Language/SAL/incl. case studies.
Editorials
Booknews
The authors use a narrative style to describe their development of the System for Augmenting Language (SAL), which fosters naturalistic exchanges between communication partners using electronic speech- output devices. They chronicle the process of language learning through augmented means for school-age students, and detail an award winning SAL application, Project FACTT. For professionals working with youth with severe cognitive disabilities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
September 1, 1996
Publisher
Brookes Publishing Co
Pages
197
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781557662521