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11: Communication Skills
Study Questions
- What are the basic components of communication?
- What forms can communication take?
- What are the benefits of multimodal communication for students with severe and multiple disabilities?
- What are the respective advantages of unaided and aided communication?
- What is the greatest disadvantage to aided communication?
- What individual factors influence a student’s form(s) of communication?
- What are some functions of communication?
- For beginning communicators, is the form or function of communication more important? Why?
- Why is the content of communication important to address in students with severe and multiple disabilities?
- Why is the social aspect of communication important to address in students with multiple disabilities?
- What are the drawbacks to using standardized tests of communication with students with multiple disabilities?
- What is dynamic assessment?
- What is an ecological assessment?
- Why is it important to request the input of a student’s significant others (e.g., family)?
- What are some recommended practices in communication intervention?
- Why is it important to teach in natural environments?
- How can teachers enhance a student’s opportunities for communication?
- How can a need for a student to communicate be created?
- Why are responsive communication partners important? How can peers be taught to be sensitive, responsive communication partners?
- Why is it important to encourage communicative functions beyond requesting?
- How can students be encouraged to communicate to achieve social closeness?
- How can systematic instruction be used to teach communication skills?
- What types of social environment accommodations can be made to support communication in students with multiple disabilities?
- What types of physical environment accommodations can be made to support communication in students with multiple disabilities?
- What are some types of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices?
- How can symbols be chosen and used to aid communication?
- Why is facilitated communication controversial?
- Why is early intervention important?
- What unconventional behaviors might a student develop? How can Functional Communication Training be used to address these unconventional behaviors?
- How can team members ensure a collaborative approach to communication intervention?
- What are some benefits of integrative service delivery?
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