Abstract
Children with severe disabilities typically require systematic instruction to develop their communication abilities. Intervention can begin by teaching functional communication skills related to requesting and rejecting. Although a considerable amount of research has focused on teaching requesting, there is an emerging literature on teaching rejecting. The aim of this tutorial is to review the emerging literature on teaching communicative rejecting to children with severe disabilities. This review considers (a) the definition of communicative rejecting, (b) reasons for teaching communicative rejecting, (c) types of communicative rejecting, and (d) empirically validated strategies for teaching communicative rejecting to children with severe disabilities. The authors include a case study to illustrate the major steps in teaching communicative rejecting to children with severe disabilities.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 31-42 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | American journal of speech-language pathology |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 1 |
State | Published - Feb 2004 |
Keywords
- Augmentative communication
- Communicative rejecting
- Intervention strategies
- Severe disabilities