Communication Supports for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Extensive Support Needs

Robert Pennington; Monique Pinczynski; Rachel Schultz

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-60258-0_16

Communication Supports for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Extensive Support Needs

Robert Pennington
, Monique Pinczynski
, Rachel Schultz

Teaching, Learning, and Community Engagement (TLCE)

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Effective communication skills are essential to high quality of life outcomes for all students. This chapter describes an approach and several strategies for teaching communication skills to students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and extensive support needs (ESN). It offers guidance across several areas of educational programming including assessment, augmentative alternative communication, teaching basic communication skills, and promoting generalization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Springer International Handbooks of Education
Pages	331-347
Number of pages	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60258-0_16
State	Published - 2025

Publication series

Name	Springer International Handbooks of Education
Volume	Part F910
ISSN (Print)	2197-1951
ISSN (Electronic)	2197-196X

Keywords

Augmentative alternative communication
Communication intervention
Extensive support needs

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