Description: This text will be of most use in courses where the primary goal is to prepare students for clinical work with persons who are severely communicatively impaired. The focus of the text is providing a full set of strategies and devices for working with the communicatively impaired and teaching students methods for selecting those most appropriate to the individual client.

FEATURES

- Complete set of strategies and devices, including:

a) all types of unaided (gestural) communication strategies that have been reported to be effective for augmenting communication -- not just ASL and American Indian Hand Talk.

b) descriptions of all types of symbol sets that have been reported to be usable on communication boards and/or with electronic communication devices.

c) descriptions, including photographs and drawings, are given of the various types of electronic communication devices.

- Comprehensive and up-to-date review of the augmentative communication literature. The comprehensive bibliography contains several thousand items -- many of which are not included in the MEDLINE or PsycLIT computer databases.

- Thoroughly updated to reflect state-of-the-art augmentative communication devices and strategies. New approaches and services, such as facilitated communication and telecommunications relay services are covered.

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