.Teaching Students with Intensive Communication Needs
 
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June 21, 2007 (class #14)
Topic: Intervention, cont.



Class outline:
 
4:20-4:30 Quick questions and quandaries. Announcements:
  • Papers are due at the start of class tomorrow.
  • Papers can be completed individually, in pairs, or small group.
  • There is a brief summary on Monday.
  • Don’t take the weekend off – make sure you work on the final draft of your progressive essay.
  • 4:30-4:50 Small group activity: 
    • Looking at goal-setting practices from the Communication Supports Checklist (see handout), rate your current school teams (each member within each group).  Overall, what is needed to further support your students with intensive communication needs in these areas?
    4:50-5:10 Report out
    5:10-5:20 Quick write: What intervention strategies could you use to support a communicator to transition between an iconic level to a symbolic level or, if it is more clear, from concrete symbolic to abstract symbolic?
    5:10-6:15 Interactive presentation: Intervention, cont.
    6:15-6:20 Minute paper:
    • What was the most important concept you learned in class today?
    • What was the muddiest part of the class?
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    Optional Reading Questions:
    Note: All of the readings, required and recommended, can be found on electronic reserves at Zimmerman library. Please contact the instructor for the course password.
    McLean & McLean, 1993
    1) How do the sub-categories of individuals with "nonverbal communication" discussed in this reading compare with the main topics from the course text?
    2) How do the concepts of 'perlocutionary' and 'illocutionary' (p. 69) compare with other concepts we've been studying in intentional communication?
    3) What are some experiences you've had with behavior in individuals with disabilities which might seem to have been related to difficulties in communication?
    4) How do the assumptions underlying intervention approaches, starting on page 71, fit in with the other definitions and assumptions underlying communication that we've studies so far?
    5) Would you say that that the intervention method described fits within the milieu framework? If so, why? If not, why not?
    6) Now that you've read this article:
    • what are some new terms for you from this chapter?
    • what seem to be some important concepts in this reading?
    • what new questions do you have?

    Wilkinson & McIlvane, 2002
    1) What are some advantages and disadvantages to using graphic symbols?
    2) What are some physical characteristics of symbols that may affect a user’s ability to interpret them effectively?
    3) What are some considerations when assessing potential users of graphic symbols?
    4) Referring to Figure 9.7, summarize the steps involved in teaching visual matching.
    5) Now that you've read this article:
    • what are some new terms for you from this chapter?
    • what seem to be some important concepts in this reading?
    • what new questions do you have?
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