Functional Communication - Analyzing the Nonlinguistic Skills of Individuals with Severe or Profound Handicaps

DEVELOPMENT OF NON-LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS, which
presents the results of research accomplished through the
joint sponsorship of the SonomaDevelopment Center (SDS) and
the College of Education of Florida Atlantic University
(FAU), examines the development of prelanguage and nonlingu-
istic skills in individuals with various types and degrees
of developmental disabilities. Utilizing the dichotomies
that may exist betweencommunication and language, the book
explores communication skills rather than formal language
systems acquisition.

List of contents

1. Theories of Communication Development.- 2. Research on Nonlinguistic Communication Functioning of Individuals with Severe or Profound Handicaps.- 3. Intervention Models to Develop Nonlinguistic Communication.- 4. The Sonoma Research Project: Facilities, Population Communication Needs, and Subjects.- 5. The Sonoma Research Project: Issues, Variables, and Methods of Investigation.- 6. The Sonoma Research Project: Data Analysis Design and Results.- 7. The Sonoma Research Project: Discussion and Conclusions.

Product details

• Assisted by: Les Sternberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2012
• EAN: 9780387972619
• ISBN: 978-0-387-97261-9
• No. of pages: 129
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 242 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 410 g
• Illustrations: XI, 129 pp. 3 figs.
• Series: Applied Mathematical Sciences; Disorders of Human Learning, Behavior, and Communication; Applied Mathematical Sciences; Disorders of Human Learning, Behavior, and Communication; Disorders of Human Learning, B
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works